National resources to support Interim Ministry (IM) were launched by the Diocese of Chelmsford in March 2021 – these are now transferred to Cranmer Hall, Durham.
The IM Resources Hub and IM Source Book are the output of Capacity Building Funding from the Church of England’s Strategic Development Fund (SDF).
Interim ministry has: ‘quite literally been a God-send, enabling renewal, growth and change to happen and for the church to flourish,’ said The Archbishop of York, the Most Revd Stephen Cottrell, at the launch. He hoped that the resources: ‘will enable every diocese to consider whether in certain situations where change and renewal is needed in existing patterns of church life; Where there are opportunities to develop whole new ways of being church and new communities of faith, that Interim Ministry might be the best next step of coming alongside existing Christian communities and helping them to see viable and flourishing ways forward.’
