ORDAINED MINISTRY

Every Christian is called to exercise a ministry of one sort or another, as they use the gifts and talents with which God has entrusted them and respond to God’s call to discipleship. Within that understanding of the ministry of the whole people of God ordained ministry is but one form of service.

Ordained ministry is God’s initiative. Since the beginning of the Church, Christians have set apart those whom God has called to a ministry of word, sacrament and pastoral oversight.