Is God calling you?
In baptism we all put on Christ. We are gifted with the potential to reflect Christ in the world. Whether single or married, female or male, deacon or priest, lay or ordained, each one of us is called, in our own way, to help bring Christ's salvation to the world.
In whatever capacity we find ourselves serving God, we can never be more baptised than we already are! Our baptism is the root of all our service and ministry.
Links to other websites, which provide information about different kinds of vocation and work for God:
Click here to go to the Church of England website This site provides detailed information about the ministry of Reader in the Church of England. Readers are Authorized Lay Ministers of the Word, teachers, preachers and leaders of public worship.
Click here for the Church Army website This site provides information about the ministry of Evangelist in the Church Army.
Click here to go to the the site of Orders Anglican. This site provides links to the various Anglican Religious Communities that one can join or become affiliated to as a Religious Brother, Sister, Associate or Oblate.
Click here for the national Church of England website. Click on Life Events for more information about ordained ministry and its place in our national church. We live in challenging times both in the world and in our Church. As we continue to move forward as the people of God in our Diocese into new ventures in ministry, we know that we will need all faithful people to:
- play their part
- risk engaging themselves with the creative venture of the Spirit
- be radical in their commitment and discipleship
- offer themselves wholeheartedly in the service of Christ.
Please pray that all may respond faithfully to Christ's Call.
A prayer:
GOD has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another; I have my mission - I may never know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next.
I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. He has not created me for naught. I shall do good, I shall do His work. I shall be an angel of peace, a preacher of truth in my own place while not intending it - if I do but keep His commandments. Therefore I will trust Him. Whatever, wherever I am, I can never be thrown away. If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him; in perplexity, my perplexity may serve Him. He does nothing in vain. He knows what He is about. He may take away my friends; He may throw me amongst strangers. He may make me feel desolate, make my spirits sink, hide my future from me - still He knows what He is about. John Henry Newman