Books and papers about LEPs 

Local Ecumenical Partnerships (LEPs) have been places of experiment: they are now formally recognised arrangements with agreed principles and patterns of management recognised by the partner Churches.

Please see the lists on the right and below for current literature and if in doubt, seek advice from Denominational or County Ecumenical Officers re current relevance. Material specific to particular categories of LEP can be found in the web pages for those LEPs.

	0 Guidelines for Catholics (useful to others too) (28.0KB)
	0 Telling the Story: the origin and development of Local Ecumenical Partnerships (157.7KB)
	0307 Ministers in LEPs with pastoral responsibilities for Baptists (23.5KB)
	0307 Ministers in LEPs with pastoral responsibilities for Baptists (55.0KB)
	0308 Status of LEP Ministers in relation to the URC (21.5KB)
	0308 Status of LEP Ministers in relation to the URC (117.2KB)
	0310 C-2 Housing in LEPs (43.0KB)
	0310 C-2 Housing in LEPs (205.6KB)
	0311 Induction of Ministers GLU (28.0KB)
	0311 Induction of Ministers GLU (80.5KB)
	0312 URC requirements of LEP ministers at induction (28.0KB)
	0312 URC requirements of LEP ministers at induction (99.7KB)
	0313 Guidelines on Worship in LEPs (85.5KB)
	0313 Guidelines on Worship in LEPs (106.1KB)
	0314 Issues in Baptist, Methodist & URC LEPs (31.5KB)
	0314 Issues in Baptist, Methodist & URC LEPs (88.5KB)
	0315 URC expectations re Reformed elements in LEPs (24.0KB)
	0315 URC expectations re Reformed elements in LEPs (59.4KB)
	0317 BUGB-URC Agreed Baptismal policy in LEPs (31.0KB)
	0317 BUGB-URC Agreed Baptismal policy in LEPs (70.6KB)
	0318 Health Care Chaplaincy: key points (20.0KB)
	0318 Health Care Chaplaincy: key points (46.9KB)
	0319 Healthcare Guidelines for Nomination to Free Church Chaplaincies (48.5KB)
	0319 Healthcare Guidelines for Nomination to Free Church Chaplaincies (75.9KB)
	0320 C-3 CofE Finance and LEPs good practice 2005 (37.0KB)
	0320 C-3 CofE Finance and LEPs good practice 2005 (186.4KB)
	0321 Making it Work: URC & Methodist LEP resources (29.0KB)
	0322 Baptist-Methodist Agreement on Baptismal policy - revised Jan 2010 (30.5KB)
	0323 Clarification of Salvation Army Territorial position on LEPs (31.0KB)
	Baptism and Church Membership (5.3MB)
	z Archive: Baptism and Church Membership (1977) (178.5KB)
	z Archive: Ministry in Local Ecumenical Projects (1985/6) (6.5MB)
	z personal paper: John Bradley's Journey with LEPs (356.0KB)