Ministerial Stress and Settlement

Abstract

"The Baptist Ministers' Fellowship Committee have asked us to write an update for the Fellowship on what has happened since the publication in the April issue of The Journal of our consultation paper on Ministerial Stress and Settlement. The short answer is a good deal! Over twenty people, usually Ministers, wrote to us, sometimes with very detailed replies. In addition, others spoke to us privately or, as you will know, wrote in the pages of the Baptist Times. Each letter or reply received was acknowledged together with the request that, where appropriate, names might be used. A summary document of the many views expressed was then compiled and shared first with the Committee and then with the Senior Management Team (SMT) of BUGB. A helpful, and at times frank, exchange of views took place at a meeting held in Didcot on 29th September. Representing the BMFC were: Alison Fuller, Vic Sumner, Jim Clarke, Stuart Jenkins, Philip Clements-Jewery, Michael Bochenski, Hazel Sherman, Pat Took, Jack Ramsbottom and Ian Furlong. Representing the SMT were: David Coffey, Keith Jones, Malcolm Goodspeed, Derek Tidball, David Nixon and Philip Putnam"