Future development

Associate consultants

By December 2013 I had formed a team, mostly of senior Church Administrators, whose churches will release them occasionally to undertake straightforward consultancy assignments in the field of church organisation. This means that when churches approach me I can pass some assignments on to others.  Some need to charge, others offer to help for travel expenses and a gift only.

This idea is still in its infancy, but I now have a team of people prepared to be involved in this way and members of this group have now undertaken a number of assignments.
  
  

UCAN development

I currently co-ordinate the UK Church Administrator Network (UCAN) as an add-on to my professional work as a church consultant and trainer. But it is now becoming too large for me to be able to handle this and maintain my own ministry.

So a group of senior church operational staff and consultants are now directors of a new company set up to run UCAN from October 2017. They have now appointed Isabel Willerton as part-time Administrator & Network Co-ordinator to run the network day-to-day (see the Administrators page). I will soon be able to retire from direct involvement, even if I undertake occasional training for the network, knowing that everything is in excellent hands.

This will then allow me to give all my time to my core work of consultancy, training and writing.

Here is a recording of a presentation about the future of UCAN given by four of the new  Directors at the Cutting Edge conference on 22nd March 2017:

The UCAN vision

UCAN proactively working towards enabling the Church in the UK to

• value the spiritual gifts of administration;
• give due recognition to those who exercise this ministry (changing present perceptions);
• rethink Minister training, UCAN speaking directly to Ministers and senior church leaders.