DISTINCTIVE DEACONS: ENACTING HOPE IN TROUBLED TIMES
With ANN MORISY
A ZOOM EVENT
21 JULY 2020
2 – 4 PM
During the pandemic, churches have found that they are reaching many more people through social media than before. This is developing new liminal spaces between gospel and people, between church and community.
Distinctive Deacons work in liminal spaces, making connections, building bridges, relationally pioneering initiatives. How can we develop the new opportunities God is giving us in this situation? Ann Morisy will suggest ways forward.
There will be breakout rooms and times for questions with Ann
Distinctive deacons, ordinands, diaconal enquirers, vocations advisers and DDOs are all welcome to attend.
For details, please email to deacons@tutanota.com
OR THROUGH
REGIONAL AREAS FOR DISTINCTIVE DEACONS
We have now divided ourselves into regions, based on the Church of England episcopal areas. Each region has a deacon coordinator, who can give you the zoom codes for the conference, and can email you with Ann’s handout.
Here’s a list: if you want to contact your regional coordinator but don’t have their contact details, please, as before, email me at deacons@tutanota.com
West Midlands: Jessica Foster (dioceses of Birmingham, Coventry, Hereford, Lichfield and Worcester)
North-West: Sue O’Loughlin (dioceses of Blackburn, Carlisle, Chester, Liverpool, Manchester, Sodor&Man)
South-East and Europe: Terry Drummond (dioceses of Canterbury, London, Rochester, Southwark and of course Europe)
East Anglia: Gill Newman: (dioceses of Chelmsford, Ely, Norwich, St Alban’s, St Eds and Ips)
South Central: Corinne Smith and Paul Hollingworth: (dioceses of Chichester, Guildford, Oxford, Portsmouth, Salisbury and Winchester)
North-East: Gerrie Sturgeon: (Durham, Leeds, Newcastle, Sheffield: deacons in York please apply to Liz Carrington)
East Midlands: David Bean (also Zoom host): (Derby, Leicester, Lincoln, Southwell&Nottingham)
South-west: Gill Kimber: (dioceses of Truro, Exeter, Bath and Wells, Bristol, Gloucester)
Church in Wales: Nick Bewing-Golding (all dioceses)
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Gill has been a missioner in Nigeria, Romania and various parishes in England. She was ordained a 'distinctive' deacon in 1991. In this capacity she was warden of the College of St Philip the Deacon in Exeter diocese, and founder member of the CofE Network of Distinctive Deacons https://cofedeacons.org. She has also written the story of her own call, Deacon by Design. https://www.waterstones.com/book/deacon-by-design/gill-kimber/9781910719794
She's passionate about the diaconate and, now retired, continues to support those who are called to this ministry.
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