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CMS creates new order for lay pioneer ministry

CMS celebrates a new way to officially recognise lay workers who are pioneers within the ministerial structures of the Church of England.

11 July 2014

Future of Ministry Training in the Church in Wales – Bishops' statement

The Bench of Bishops has endorsed a way forward for ministry training in the Church in Wales

20 June 2014

Egypt: New prison ministry in Alexandria

The Anglican Church in Egypt has recently started a new prison ministry in Alexandria

06 June 2014

The Rt Revd Langstaff to be England's Bishop to Prisons

The Bishop of Rochester, the Rt Revd James Langstaff, is to be the next Bishop to Her Majesty’s Prisons

18 November 2013

Archbishops' Council and Durham University sign historic agreement

Archbishops' Council and Durham University sign historic agreement

 The Archbishops’ Council has linked with Durham University in an historic partnership to provide a suite of higher education awards for ordinands, lay ministry students and others studying in colleges, courses and dioceses in England.

26 April 2013

Take up of CMS's new Pioneer Mission Course exceeds all expectations

Take up of CMS's new Pioneer Mission Course exceeds all expectations

The number of students signing up for the new Pioneer Mission Leadership Training course delivered by the Church Mission Society has exceeded all expectations. Having set a target of recruiting 12 students for the forthcoming academic year, 20 will start the course this autumn.

27 September 2011

Former partygoer ministers to Leeds nightclubbers

Former partygoer ministers to Leeds nightclubbers

Six years after clubbing the night away in Leeds as a student, a young Anglican pastor is returning to her former haunts – as "pioneering minister" to the night-time economy.

07 September 2011

Will lay administration of the Lord’s Supper be a circuit breaker in the long running debate over women’s ministry?

Will lay administration of the Lord’s Supper be a circuit breaker in the long running debate over women’s ministry?

Lay administration of the Lord’s Supper has generated more heat than any other issue in Southern Cross recently. If passed, new laws will allow lay people and those ministers ordained as deacons to lead or ‘administer’ the Holy Communion service.

23 September 1999