If this is the kind of community you would be interested in serving and learning alongside, we'd love to hear from you! Opportunities range from regular volunteering, studying with us online through joining our MTMM course, or, if you would like to explore a more immersive training experience with us, please email hello@lighthousewy.org.uk to discuss the possibility of a short term placement or joining our year-long internship programme.
Month: May 2024
As a ‘go-between’ representing the Church in the court of Charlemagne, he served as an ambassador for Christ in the world.
So as deacons prepare to equip the royal priesthood of God to serve God the Father (Revelation 1:5-6), let us pray that the Holy Spirit will once more fill us, and give us ears to hear how God reveals himself to the Church and in the world today: Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your people and kindle in us the fire of your love. Renew the face of your creation, Lord, pouring on us the gifts of your people.
Deacon Jonathan Halliwell, our education adviser, has kindly downloaded the Six Qualities and Evidences for distinctive deacons to a useful Word document.
In 2017, an historic step was taken by the Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, when he consecrated five women to be deaconesses in the Congo. On May 2, 2024, Angelic Molen of Harare, Zimbabwe, was ordained Deaconess Angelic in the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and all Africa (the Orthodox Church in the continent of Africa). This is a giant stride for The Orthodox Church, and is inevitably controversial.
CofE Network of Distinctive Deacons 