Barnabas: Encouraging Confidence

Barnabas: Encouraging Confidence is the way in which the Diocese of Leeds wants to support churches to move forward in mission, ministry and sustainability, in a way that is prayerful, intentional and, within the grace of God, possible. 

Barnabas offers every church resources and support at different levels, with a view to us all working towards the diocesan vision of Confident Christians, Growing Churches, Transforming Communities. 

Barnabas: Encouraging Confidence helps us to:

• Be Confident in our Mission - Supporting churches to become confident in their use of their building, financial and time resources; and creating more opportunities to be Good News in our communities. 
• Be Confident in our Future - Ensuring our levels of clergy deployment are fit for the future and are affordable. Barnabas enables us to make deployment decisions in a mission-led way, which can give clergy and churches the confidence that the Diocese is committed to their thriving in an overall financially sustainable structure.
• Be Confident in our Leadership - Giving significant and specific support around leadership and mentoring in the church, both for clergy in their roles, but also for church teams moving forward in mission.
• Be Confident in our Witness - Encouraging support for clergy and for churches to be confident in living and telling the Good News of Jesus in a rapidly changing world.  

There are seven streams of support that Barnabas: Encouraging Confidence offers to churches and those who take responsibility for them:
 

Meet the team
	Revd Canon Jude Smith Director of Mission and Revitalisation
	Dr Ben Walker Strategic Portfolio Manager
	Kat Foulds Strategic Programme Officer
	Martyn Lawson Data Manager
	Alison Cassidy Programme Co-Ordinator