Ashcroft lay ministry turns to early church for inspiration
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article40055
- Author
- Forget, André
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2015 September
- Author
- Forget, André
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2015 September
- Volume
- 141
- Issue
- 7
- Page
- 9
- Notes
- Story is one of a Focus series on the Anglican Parishes of the Central Interior.
- St. Alban's Anglican Church in Ashcroft, B.C., is a parish that has been pioneering a collaborative approach to ministry over the past few years. "'In the first-century church, everybody that did ministry was recognized by the congregation', [parishioner David] Durksen explains. 'So if you wanted prayers for healing or you needed to learn about the gospel, or whatever, everybody would go to [the individual] who could do that. And if that person wasn't there, there was somebody else who would do that. And that first-century approach is really what's here -- lay gifts and the recognition of lay gifts'. Inspired by this approach, St. Alban's has turned its sermons into opportunities for people to learn and be engaged by the teaching that is happening from the pulpit -- after the sermon (or 'reflection', as they prefer to call it) is given, the entire congregation responds with thoughts and insights".
- Subjects
- St. Alban's Anglican Church (Ashcroft, B.C.)
- Lay ministry - Anglican Church of Canada
- Church renewal - Anglican Church of Canada