Please consider the following when preparing for your MDR Review.
Present context
- Description of churches, number on the Electoral Roll, ASA, description of the social and ethnic mix, age profile of the congregation(s),
- SSMs with a workplace ministry, please include a description of your work context.
- With whom do I share ministry in a formal sense (e.g. ministry team)?
- within or outside the church
- with ministerial colleagues and deanery
- with ecumenical and inter-faith dimensions
- with others in a secular workplace (for SSMs)
- in the Diocese
- For whom do I have a ministry of oversight (e.g. other Ordained and Lay Ministers, Lay Leaders, others exercising a Lay Ministry)?
- Details of any significant changes in my responsibilities, since I was appointed or since my last MDR.
- Have these changes impacted on my role description, job description or working agreement?
- What do I see as my current priorities?
- Any other significant responsibilities, e.g. in the community or wider church.
- Where do I find myself working most on the fringes of the Church, within the Church or outside the Church?
- Roughly, how does the balance of time work out between various commitments?
Personal and Spiritual
- Current patterns of personal prayer, spiritual life, retreat, spiritual direction/ companionship.
- Balance of ministry with friendships/family/leisure time/ lifestyle. What relaxes and resources me outside ministry?
Ministry training and development
- How far have the objectives been achieved?
- How fruitful have the goals/objectives proved to be?
- List training and resourcing undertaken since your last review (other than any that were part of the objectives).
- Aspects of ministry where I feel progress has not been made in a way I had hoped.
- For parish clergy - with particular reference to the Diocesan Vision and Priorities and the objectives set by the PCC(s) and our Mission Action Plan(s), what gifts and skills does my present context demand of me?
- For SSMs - with reference to the Diocesan Vision and Priorities and the demands of formal and informal ministry in my workplace, what gifts and skills does that context demand of me?
- For sector and Diocesan clergy - with reference to the Diocesan Vision and Priorities and the objectives agreed with my line manager, what gifts and skills does my present context demand of me? How natural are these to me?
Ministry, partnership and the Diocese
- Assistant clergy and those who function in an assistant capacity for any part of their role should comment upon the relationship with their Incumbent / Line Manager.
- Sector ministers should comment upon the relationship with the senior clergy to whom they relate.
N.B. Diocesan commitment to enabling all Gods people to discover their vocation in their Monday to Saturday lives, equipping those with whom I minister with a confident faith and vision for the Kingdom of God, lived out in homes, schools, communities and places of work?
Looking ahead goals, hopes, aspirations
Sector ministers -- What training (appropriate to my development needs) can be accessed in my work context?
- With particular reference to the objectives set by the PCC(s) and Mission Action Plan(s), what gifts and skills does my present context demand of me?
- With reference to the demands of formal and informal ministry in my workplace, what gifts and skills does that context demand of me? For sector and Diocesan clergy
- With particular reference to the objectives agreed with my line manager, what gifts and skills does my present context demand of me?
- How natural are these to me?
- Is there training or support I need to develop my ministry significantly in this place?