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November 2003

 

 

 

 


The Circular Head Ministry team proudly display their newly awarded Ministry Course Certificates during a recent service at Smithton. (L-R) Dianne Jackson, Helene Williamson, Patsy Payne, Keith and Dorothy Luther, Lee Bulloch, Ruth Eslake, Warren Bulloch, Graeme and Lorna Crole, John and Shirley Van Norden with Enabler, Peter Adkins.

 

Local Ministry team awarded Ministry Course Certificates

by Peter Adkins, Mission Enabler

 

 

The handbook of the Ministry Certificate Course states:

'Christian formation is best facilitated in the communities to which people belong, for it is in the contexts of everyday life, as people do ministry and take time to reflect upon it theologically, that deep learning occurs.'

Never-ending

For the Local Ministry team at Circular Head, this communal learning over the last three years culminated recently in the awarding of the Trinity College Ministry Certificate to each team member. The learning times have helped strengthen community. They have also provided a lively forum to discuss how newly thought-through theological ideas impact the day to day challenges of mission and ministry in the parish.

There has been visible growth in team competence and confidence in God through this whole process, but each team member realises that ministry training is a lifelong task. Team member Ruth Eslake sums up her reflections of the course 'The team's study course has ended, but the tasks we are called to do and the help we are asked to give others will not end. It is a process of never-ending learning and searching for truth. God will lead the way and be our guide.'