The Papworth Team Mission
This kind of Team Ministry is relatively new in the diocese of Ely, though Groups and Teams have been running successfully in other parts of the Church of England for many years. They have often covered a number of urban parishes, or sometimes a whole town (as in the case of the Huntingdon Team Ministry), or a market town with a penumbra of villages around it (as with the Leominster Team Ministry). But our team has no parish that is clearly and obviously larger and stronger than others. All our churches are small churches.
The vision for the team does not diminish the importance of each church being at the heart of its community - we are all clear that this is very much the calling of the parish church, to be the Christian presence in the midst, to serve and to proclaim, to be accessible to all, to offer a welcome in Christ's name.
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