Meeting with either the Director or one of the Assistant Director or one of the Assistant Directors of Ordinands will be for a series of meetings helping you to clarify your vocation to ordained ministry and to prepare you to attend a national Bishops’ Advisory Panel (BAP).
These sessions will be based on the Bishop’s Criteria for Ministry and continued for 12 to 18 months and this will include some of the following steps:
Steps in the Diocesan Discernment Process
Reading and written Work
Placement in another Parish
If your experience of the Church of England is limited
Anglicanism Seminar
Held at the Cathedral twice each year
Interview with a Bishop’s Advisor
Someone experienced in discernment
Weekend at Pleshey
A time to pray together and have a go at things that happen at a BAP
The DDO or ADDO will arrange for you to meet the Bishop who will decide if you should process to a Bishops’ Advisory Panel organised by the Ministry Division of the Church of England.
Bishop’s Advisory Panel (BAP)
At the end of this 3-day residential conference at a retreat house the Selectors write a report to the Bishop advising whether they recommend that you enter training for ordained ministry.
For more information please contact Revd Canon Tim Goodbody
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