The Riverina Presbytery of the Uniting Church covers a large area from Tumut in the east to Hay in the west and from Finley in the south to Hillston in the north. It comprises 33 parishes, many of which have multiple congregations spread over different centres. As you can imagine issues such as isolation, small congregations and distance make running the Presbytery a challenge.
At their last meeting the Presbytery decided to look at some of their goals for the next couple of years. After some preliminary ground work by Tony Davies, the Presbytery Minister and Darren Wright, the Youth Worker and myself, I helped facilitate a session with all those present and everyone worked extremely hard in a very short time to find common goals and prioritise them. There was remarkable agreement amongst those present and the top three goals they prioritised were Discipleship Formation, Pastoral Support for Congregations and Resourcing. The challenge now for the Presbytery is take the goals and find good ways of integrating them into the way Presbytery does business.
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