6. APPROPRIATE DELIVERY OF TRAINING AND RESOURCES? This final section asks the question, “What Methods are Appropriate for Delivering Training and Resources?” This relates primarily to lay people within the rural churches.


Respondents to the questionnaires were asked to provide information about the delivery of training, including an evaluation of the format or approach used. Interviewees and focus groups were questioned on: • methods of resource or training delivery experienced; • methods of resource or training delivery most suited to the rural church context.


Local Delivery Lay training should be delivered as locally as possible. This opinion is articulated forcefully by lay people and ministers, and acknowledged by strategic leaders and training providers. The latter groups, though, also identify what they see as potential drawbacks or difficulties in delivering training locally.


a. Deanery-Level Training or Equivalent


The example of deanery-level resource and training provision for lay people in Anglican dioceses is raised by a wide range and substantial number of Anglican respondents. Some of these simply identify this as an example of good practice while others highlight its absence as a significant gap in rural provision. However, a few respondents talk of this level of delivery for lay training as some sort of ‘middle way’, as for one curate from a North Eastern diocese (which other respondents indicate has a centralising tendency), who suggests: Providing deanery-level resources ... which are more accessible than diocesan ones, [and] more ‘doable’ than parish ones in the rural context. And at deanery level, travel and transport are less likely to be problems. It may allow a proper focus on rural needs and the full involvement of laity. In a number of rural dioceses, deanery-level teams and facilitation are being developed. As the training provider for a very rural diocese reveals: [We are] creating Deanery Resource Groups ... [where] each deanery is being asked to form a group of people with expertise and interest in a range of areas of mission and ministry, fully supported by me ... I am developing interconnections between these groups, aimed at spreading good practice and ideas quickly across the whole of our geographically widely spread rural diocese.


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