Celebrating Calling
The Church of Scotland’s Towards Ministry Team is just about to launch a brand-new resource called Could it be you? It will be hosted on the Church’s rapidly-developing Learning platform and has been produced as an aid to those who want to explore calling to ministry.
Among other things, the module includes a series of brief video conversations with some of those who are already serving in one or other of the Church’s ministries. Though these people are entirely unique, common to them all was a sense of you can’t be serious? when the idea of ministry was first put to them. In other words, as each faced up to the question Could it be you? the default response was along the lines of NO!
It’s entirely possible that there’s someone reading this piece right now who when asked to think about calling to ministry would respond… surely not me? Perhaps you.
Why not come and join the Towards Ministry Team at its upcoming Celebrating Calling event to be held in Edinburgh on Wednesday 4 September 2024 from 5.30-7.30pm at New Town Church, 13 George Street, EH2 2PA.
Anyone can come, whether you’re certain about this sense of calling or still at the very earliest stages of exploration. Members of the team will be there to answer questions, to share information about our processes and to unpack something of what we believe is happening when God calls people to ministry. The event will feature refreshments and lite-bites and will be entirely relaxed and informal in tone. You can come and might find that it proves to be the starting point of your journey or you might leave afterwards and that will be the end of it.
Since the first of these events, held in Hamilton in August last year, and through the subsequent ones held in Aberdeen, Glasgow and online, many have indeed taken the first tentative steps towards ministry. Some have come through the various steps of discernment and are beginning their formal training this summer. How exciting!
The question really is: Could it be you?
Register for the Edinburgh event by emailing ministry@churchofscotland.org.uk or by phoning 0131 225 5722 and asking for the Towards Ministry Team.
When: 4 September at 17.30 pm
Where: New Town Church, 13 George Street, EH2 2PA.
Register: by emailing ministry@churchofscotland.org.uk or by phoning 0131 225 5722 and asking for the Towards Ministry Team.