Parish Resources

A toolkit and annual workshops for churchwardens, treasurers and other parish leaders.

Resources about clergy as office holders, including professional development, remuneration and benefits, wellness and retirement.

Resources about parish employees, including compensation, hiring and supervising staff, performance reviews and the Parish HR Manual.

Topics on church property, including licenses and leases, buying and selling property, renovations, rectories and more.

The Parish Finance Manual, annual returns, investments and insurance.

The different grants available to parishes and how to apply.

Details on the Responsible Ministry: Screening in Faith policy, including how to implement it in your parish.

Information on the policy, and resources for holding training sessions in your parish.

Details about keeping parish files and what to transfer to the Diocesan Archives, as well as information for researchers.

Information about the Privacy Standards Policy, as well as guidelines on parish directories and access to parish records.

Rules and policies your parish needs to follow, plus training resources

What you need to do under the law, plus policy templates.

The diocesan logo and how to use it in your parish.

A convenient collection of downloadable forms.

A collection of the Diocese’s policies and guidelines.

Resources and tools to help your congregation reflect Christ’s love in the world and share the gospel.

A one-year program for congregations in transition.

Learning how to be missional and putting those ideas into practice, including grants to help you get started.

Encouraging giving through education, narrative budgets and different ways of giving.

Equipping, empowering and supporting volunteers in their ministries.

Resources to support your parish’s technical and digital activities.

A coached, year-round stewardship education program focused on generosity, volunteerism, gratitude and education.

A brief snapshot of discipleship materials that have been used in our Diocese.

We live out our ministry of healing in anointing with oil, pastoral visiting and faith community nursing.

Equipping, engaging and supporting Anglicans in matters of social and ecological justice.

Our diocesan cycles of prayer and other ways to explore prayer.

Diocesan-wide and area youth programs, led by the Bishop’s Youth Ministry Committee and the area coordinators.

Tips and ideas to help bring the living gospel into kids’ lives.

Supporting ministry by, to and for Indigenous peoples.

Exploring the issues of diversity and race.

Contacts and resources for interfaith ministry and activity.

Working with parishes to build up healthy communities of faith that have clarity of mission.

Information about officiating at weddings in the Diocese, including officiants’ licenses, permissions and conducting weddings outside a church building.

Ministry with Cantonese-speaking and Mandarin-speaking people throughout the Diocese.