{"id":8093,"date":"2021-02-22T15:57:34","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T15:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nationaldeaneries.net\/?page_id=8093"},"modified":"2021-02-22T16:06:57","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T16:06:57","slug":"march-2021-deanery-briefing-730pm-wednesday-17-march","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nationaldeaneries.net\/?page_id=8093","title":{"rendered":"Gearing up Lay Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Deanery<\/a><\/p>\n

A Vision for Lay Ministry <\/span>with Carrie Myers<\/span><\/h2>\n

Deanery Briefing – 7:30pm Wednesday 17 March 2021<\/span><\/h4>\n
\"Carrie<\/a>
Carrie Myers Lay Ministries Officer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the past year we have seen changes that would normally take twenty or thirty years in the way we undertake our mission and ministry. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Across the church conversations are underway as to the what will the church look like in the 2020s post the covid-19 crisis, and what resources will we have given the financial pressures we are experiencing.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Currently there are around 8000 stipendiary clergy – that is less than 40% of all ordained ministers. In addition, a third of those who are ordained are in non-stipendiary or self-supporting roles and a similar number of clergy, whose average age is 75, have permission or are licenced to officiate.<\/p>\n

As we emerge from the pandemic, we will rely even more on an army of over 100,000 lay people involved in supporting our clergy in publicly recognised ministry and roles, as well as the tens of thousands more who are active in serving their communities.<\/p>\n