Guide to ministry

PRIORITY AREAS

Practical support is provided to a number of our priority area congregations ensuring that the needs of the most vulnerable in society, including Scotland's ethnic minorities, are kept before the Church. The list of priority partnership areas has been drawn through independent research carried out by the Scottish Centre for Research on Social Justice. These are the 54 parishes in Scotland which, according to the data available through the 2001 National Census, are the economically poorest in Scotland.

For more information about priority areas and ministry in these communities, and full contact details, visit our Ministries Council page by clicking here.

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Ministries in the Church
A guide to the range of ministries roles including ministers, deacons, readers and elders

Chaplains
Our representatives in faith to industry, hospitals, prisons, universities and the Armed Forces

First steps to ministries
The 'call' to the ministries of the Church, recruitment, training, support and development

Deaf ministry
Supporting initiatives and providing resource for deaf people in the Church

New charge developments
Building communities of faith specific to the needs of the local area

Area team ministry
Parishes sharing aspects of ministry in a positive, mission-based way

Priority areas
Commitment to the economically poorest parishes of Scotland

The Ministries Council
The administration of the planning, deployment, support and development of the Church's ministries