B.C. synod deals creatively with decline : one closure and six mergers
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article35485
- Author
- Fletcher, Anne
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2008 November
- Author
- Fletcher, Anne
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2008 November
- Volume
- 134
- Issue
- 9
- Page
- 6
- Notes
- A September 2008 meeting of the Diocese of British Columbia synod received "recommendations for one closure, St. Alban in Victoria, and for six mergers, involving eight small congregations, in the 56-parish diocese". "The diocese has seen a steady decline in Sunday attendance for at least the last 15 years, with averages dropping 11 per cent to 4,955 in 2007 from 5,555 in 2003. Funerals outnumbered baptisms by 349 to 135 last year, and 25 parishes were running deficits". "The diocese now has a congregational development officer; almost every parish has an action plan; two-per-cent annual growth targets are in place; and several parishes teetering on the brink of closure have pulled themselves back".
- Subjects
- Anglican Church of Canada. Diocese of British Columbia
- Anglican Church of Canada. Diocese of British Columbia - Statistics
- Church attendance - Anglican Church of Canada
- Congregational development - Anglican Church of Canada
- Anglican Church of Canada - Parishes
- Cowan, James (James Arnold Jackson), 1951-
- Location
- General Synod Archives