Synod

Saint Leonard's Church, Clent, is part of the United Benefice of_

Saint Leonard's Church, Clent and
Holy Trinity, Belbroughton, with
St. Mark's, Fairfield

These churches are members of the Stourbridge Deanery
and are within the Diocese of Worcester

Rural Dean Rev. Andrew Hazlewood	Lay Joint Chair Mr. John Nicholson	Secretary Mr. Graham Dyer
The Rectory, Pedmore Lane, Stourbridge. DY9 0SW	35, Poplar Crescent, Norton, Stourbridge. DY8 3BA	14, Brecon Drive, Penfields, Stourbridge. DY8 4UU
01562 884856 e-mail	01384 373903	01384 371561

Who are we ?

Each church elects a number of Representatives to attend the Synod meetings on behalf of their church. The term is for three years. Synod Reps. are automatically ex-officio members of the P.C.C. (Parochial Church Council) of their church.

Anne Lockett, Liz. Piddock and Harry Grove represent St. Leonard's church (elected February 24th 2007).

What do we do ?

The Standing Committee devise the agenda for each meeting.
At present each Deanery church is taking turn to explain what they undertake as their Christian Mission; a Visiting Speaker makes a presentation on a topical item; members of the Synod share items which are important to them.
Propositions can be tabled for debate, voted on, and sent to the Diocesan Synod meeting for them to consider.

Here are Newletters of recent meetings which indicate the various items which were considered.

June 13th 2007
Belbroughton

October 11th 2007
St. John's, Hagley

February 28th 2008
Amblecote

Spring election period for new Synod Representatives

June 25th 2008
Churchill

October 16th 2008
St. Michael's, Norton

Webmasters of Stourbridge Deanery parishes are invited to download the files and add them to their own web. [.pdf format]

Please print them out and put them on your Notice Boards so that your congregations are more aware of Synod activities and the topics under discussion.

This is the URL of the Stourbridge Deanery Web