On 20 November, All Saints with Holy Trinity will join the Soar Valley Minster Community. The Minster Community will be a group of parishes working together to share knowledge, ministry, and resources to further our ability to undertake mission and ministry in our area.

We’ve been in the process of exploring who we would be in a group with, and what the Community might look like over the last two years. In 2021, the Diocese of Leicester agreed to move into Minster Communities, groups of parishes working together and sharing ministry. In 2023, our Area started exploring how this might look for us, through storyboards, conversation dials, discernment days, and working groups. For a reminder on the process, have a read of this article: here, there are two others in the series, one about Schools work, and the other by Angela Woodward about her experience of the process.

Thank you to everyone who has attended one of the sessions, workshops, or working group! PCC have been so encouraged by the level of engagement from the congregation through the process.

Very little, if anything, will change day-to-day at All Saints following the launch. Most of the Minster Community’s work will be behind the scenes. However, there will be opportunities to engage, already there is the Come and Sing on 5th October at St Andrew’s Kegworth, and I encourage you to get involved!

James Badger