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37. The Faith and Order Committee has offered specific responses to paperwork, continuing involvement in the support of a working group, or commentary on the development of reports. Where appropriate, specific responses have been sent either to the Cluster Head/Strategic Leader, or directly to the authors of specific reports, or to those providing the lead in various areas of work: ●● ●● ●● ●● ●● ●● ●● ●● ●● ●● ●● ●● ●● ●● ●● ●● Larger than Circuit Ministers and Ill-Health/Living with Disabilities Equality and Diversity Singing the Faith Online Supplement Discipleship Materials Fruitful Field/Discipleship and Ministries Learning Network Joint meeting with Faith and Order Advisory Commission of the Church of England (now established in a regular pattern of meetings) Ecumenical Reports Diaconal Conversations (JIC) Reflection on papers from JIC Poverty Membership Senior Leadership World Methodist Council Worship Material for Aldersgate Sunday Liturgical Resources throughout the year Participation in Methodist Missionary Society Working Group 3. Ways of Working: A proposal to develop the Faith and Order Network 3.1 For the last six years, the Committee has been working within a Network structure. Throughout that period, as previous Conference reports show, we have been constantly reviewing the work that we do and trying to find the most effective way to make use of the network and the resource groups to maximise the work of the Committee and at the same time avoid the creation of a number of semi-autonomous sub-committees. Our practice over the last few years has identified the strengths and weaknesses of having a Faith and Order Network comprised of resource groups. 3.2 The Network has held two highly successful, well-attended conferences. These Network Conferences offer a time to engage with Methodist theology in a stimulating and intense way. The Network Conference held in September 2012 allowed the Network and Committee to develop thinking on youth participation and also to explore a number of difficult themes in innovative and creative ways. The Network has allowed us to embrace more people into the Faith and Order work of the Church and to open up that work to make it more transparent, consultative and accountable. 3.3 Experience indicates that the main weakness of a Faith and Order 424 Conference Agenda 2013
37. The Faith and Order Committee Network comprising separate resource groups is an inevitable tendency to compartmentalise scrutiny work. Rather than allocate work to an individual resource group, the Committee has discovered that the most productive way of working is to create a working group that combines a range of expertise – biblical, theological, historical, ecumenical, etc. Coordinating and administering the work of the resource groups has been far more consuming of the Faith and Order Secretary’s time and energy than was originally conceived. 3.4 Therefore the Faith and Order Committee brings the following recommendations to Conference for approval. 3.5 Recommendations: 3.5.1 The concept of a network to support the work of the Committee, overseen by the Secretary of the Faith and Order Committee will continue. 3.5.2 Members of the network will no longer be allocated to specific resource groups, which will cease to exist, but will form an approved panel of people with relevant skills and gifts, who can be consulted as necessary and, along with members of the Committee and other key individuals with relevant expertise, be appointed to Faith and Order working groups to undertake specific tasks. The Secretary of the Committee will establish informal interest or focus groups from time to time to facilitate discussion of topics of interest and concern. 3.5.3 The Network Conference should continue to happen every two or three years but discussions should be held with the Discipleship and Ministries Learning Network to explore whether the conference could be sponsored by the network and seek to enhance the work of the Faith and Order Committee, the Ministries Committee and the wider theological health of the Connexion. An appropriate funding strategy should be drawn up to share the costs of the conference between the appropriate budget heads. 3.5.4 The Committee will need to give thought to its own composition to ensure that the expertise currently available through the resource groups is found through the Committee membership itself either directly or through connectivity with existing and emerging networks in the Church. 3.5.5 The Committee agreed to set up one sub-committee to continue the work of the Worship and Liturgy Resource Group. The Liturgical Sub-Committee should be chaired and convened by members of the Committee, but with the rest of its membership drawn from outside of the Committee if necessary to ensure appropriate expertise and experience. Consideration should be given to whether the sub-committee Conference Agenda 2013 425
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