Sharnbrook Deanery is in the Diocese of St Albans and is situated in North Bedfordshire, to the north of Bedford. It lies either side of the A6 and the River Great Ouse flows through it.
There are 32 churches in the Deanery, one of which is redundant (Knotting) and another (Chellington) used by the Diocese as a Residential Youth Centre.

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Sharnbrook Deanery Synod

Sharnbrook Deanery Synod acts as an intermediary between the Parochial Church Councils of each parish in the Sharnbrook Deanery, and the St. Albans Diocesan Synod. The Synod meets approximately 6 times a year in Bletsoe Village Hall at 7.30pm with the Rural Dean in the chair.

The functions of a Deanery Synod are:
(a) to consider matters concerning the Church of England and to make provision for such matters in relation to their deanery and to consider and express their opinion on any other matters of religious or public interest;
(b) to bring together the views of the parishes of the deanery on common problems, to discuss and formulate common policies on those problems, to foster a sense of community and interdependence among those parishes, and generally to promote in the deanery the whole mission of the Church, pastoral, evangelistic, social and ecumenical;
(c) to make known and so far as appropriate put into effect any provision made by the diocesan synod;
(d) to consider the business of the diocesan synod, and particularly any matters referred to that synod by the General Synod, and to sound parochial opinion whenever they are required or consider it appropriate to do so;
(e) to raise such matters as the deanery synod consider appropriate with the diocesan synod.

Sharnbrook Deanery Synod officers

Rural Dean:               Revd Stephen Liley;
Assistant Rural Dean: Revd Christine Clark;
Lay Co Chair:            Keith Williams;
Secretary:                 Caroline Edmundson;
Committee:               Clifton Ibbett, Krystyna Oborn, Garaldine Skinner, Revd Stephen Holroyd, Revd Jane Bass

Sharnbrook Deanery Synod Group

A Deanery Group is being set up to allow Deanery Synod members and other church members in the Deanery to communicate with each other.  To join the Group click here:
www.googlegroups.com
and enter Sharnbrook Deanery in the search box and follow the instructions.

The Group is hosted by Google, and in order to become a member of the Group you will need to join Google which you will do as part of the signing up process. If you have a gmail.com email address or you use any other Google email addresses or products then you are already a member of Google.