Better than flying solo
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article36243
- Author
- Tomalin, Patrick
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2010 June
- Author
- Tomalin, Patrick
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2010 June
- Volume
- 135
- Issue
- 6
- Page
- 10
- Notes
- "My wife, Dianne, and I have been a clergy couple since Dianne's ordination 23 years ago. We like this co-operative style of ministry. In fact, we would not want it any other way because, for us, it more enriching and more effective than 'flying solo'." Article enumerates several advantages of a clergy couple in ministry. Also lists some of the downsides including the fact that it is "not easy for most bishops to place clergy couples in the same parish and this often results in the two priests being appointed to separate parishes (sometimes requiring two hours or more of driving). Many parishes simply cannot afford to pay two priests and so a clergy couple may have to share one salary to live and minister together."
- The author "The Rev. Patrick Tomalin and the Ven. Dianne Tomalin are a retired clergy couple who live in Port Alberni, B.C., where they served together for six and a half years".
- Location
- General Synod Archives