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Continuing Ministerial Training Adviser

The Reverend Dr Graham Hamborg

Since September 2004 I have been the CME Adviser for the Bradwell Episcopal Area. 

Before taking up this appointment I was, for eighteen years, vicar of the parish of Ruscombe and Twyford, near Reading, in the Diocese of Oxford. I was also Area Dean of the Sonning Deanery. Previously I had been a Team Vicar in Slough (1980-86) and a curate in Birmingham (1977-80).

I have been appointed to divide my time between being

• CME Adviser for the Bradwell Area
• CME Co-ordinator for Years 1-4 for the whole of Chelmsford Diocese

Additionally I work with colleagues in the Barking and Colchester Episcopal Areas in the provision of training events for Clergy and Readers.

In the Bradwell Area

• All licensed Clergy and Readers have entitlement to an annual CME Grant – I am able to authorise use of this for appropriate training events
• If you are not sure where to go to find the training you feel you need, I should be able to help you – or if not, to find someone who can
• If you are not quite sure what your training needs are, I can come and see you in a consultancy capacity
• I can give information about sabbaticals, and about registered courses of study and training
• I can help deaneries or groups of parishes arrange training days, half-days or evenings for Clergy and/or Readers

In my role as Bradwell Area CME Adviser I also provide learning support to training incumbents and curates in Years 1-4.

I also arrange the annual Bradwell Area Clergy Study Day and periodic training events for Readers, and am always happy to receive comments on these, and suggestions for them.

CME Years 1 - 4

In this part of my work I arrange

• To provide training to those incumbents whom the Area Bishops have identified as training incumbents with whom they will place curates
• A network of Theological Reflection Groups for curates which I also support
• A programme of residential weekends and training days for curates

If you would like to know more about this, please contact me.

Diocesan CME Provision

While I am diocesan coordinator for CME Years 1-4, the Barking Area CME Adviser, Jill Mowbray co-ordinates CME activities for Clergy Years 5+, and the Colchester Area CME Adviser Tim Bull for Readers.  Between us we provide and staff:

• First Incumbency and Incumbency Skills Courses
• New Posts Conferences
• Pre-Retirement Courses
• Church Leadership Programme (with Canon Roger Matthews)
• Training for Rural/Area Deans
• Reader Quiet Days and Training

• Other Training as requested

No one person can ever keep abreast of all the many high quality training opportunities available in and to the Church of the twenty-first century.  So if you have experienced a really valuable piece of training that you think others could benefit from too, I should love to hear from you about it.

The Reverend Dr Graham Hamborg The Rectory Colam Lane Little Baddow Chelmsford CM3 4SY T 01245 227418 E revghamborg@hotmail.com

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