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North Holderness is a small, rural and coastal Deanery with a history of mutual support and prayerfulness. All deaneries are unique, but we might be forgiven for thinking that North Holderness has a certain uniqueness, if only for the fact that we have the fastest eroding coastline in the east of England and therefore becoming smaller year on year!

At October 2023 we were a Deanery of 22 churches in 4 benefices.  We have a Deanery priest (HfD) based in Brandesburton – her role is to cover leave, support during vacancies and help in school’s ministry.

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Our recent plans

Revd Shirley Hebden, the previous Area Dean of North Holderness writes;

Our exciting plans for the future, part of the ‘Living Christ’s Story’ initiative, have included ‘uncoupling’ the two benefices which have been held in plurality since 2010 (Beeford w Frodingham & Foston) and (Brandesburton & Leven) to make two separate benefices with a HfD and a half time minister.

It is envisaged that when the present Deanery Priest retires the Deanery will not be able to afford this post and regrettably the post will cease.

We have also created two ‘Mission Communities’:

•  North Holderness Coastal comprising the benefices of Hornsea & Aldbrough

•  North Holderness Rural comprising the benefice of Skirlaugh with the newly formed benefices of Beeford & Brandesburton with Leven.

This will allow a greater sharing of ministry and other resources across the benefice boundaries thus fostering greater mission opportunities in what are often poorly resourced villages.

We already have a history of sharing across our Deanery and to develop this further, our plan includes building on the already very successful biennial Deanery Lent Group, Deanery Songs of Praise and open Deanery Synod meetings with invited speakers by making more use of the opportunity to promote other activities across our Deanery. We have expressed the importance of girding all our plans in prayer and to this end we are developing and growing our prayer groups and study groups.

As a Deanery we are excited by our plans and we are thankful we now have ministers in place to make all of this as beneficial as possible. 

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