I'm delighted to announce that there DDOs on Saturday 1 November, with Rev Jon Swales MBE. It's entitled 'Cruciform Love in a Broken World: Diaconal Reflections', with Rev Jon Swales, MBE, mission priest at the Lighthouse project in Leeds.
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“We need heralds of the Gospel who are experts in humanity, who know the depths of the human heart, who can share the joys, the hopes, the agonies, the distress of people today, but who are, at the same time, contemplatives who have fallen in love with God.” Pope John Paul II
However, we are aware that when the groups worked well, they also acted as a channel of communication with the Steering Group, feeding back current issues and concerns DDs were experiencing. We don’t want to lose this. Any DD, DD ordinand or Enquirer is therefore encouraged to keep in communication with the Steering Group via the CENDD social media channels and email. We need to hear what is working well for you as well as the issues and challenges you face, so that common themes can be identified and we know what needs to be addressed.
The Convocation was an important gathering that was both celebratory and reflective. It offers a model of how creative thinking, fellowship and worship can contribute to the wider ministry of the whole Church, whilst creating new and positive relationships. It may be said that in the understanding of Diaconal ministry, the Methodists are ahead of many denominations.
Excitingly, we now have details of our next Distinctive Deacons' conference! It will be online (no battling with Storm Babet, as happened last year!) and it's called Last Orders? Restoring the priority of the Diaconate. Date and time: Saturday, November 2 · 9:30am - 2:30pm GMT It's our chance to meet our new Patron, Bishop … Continue reading Last Orders? restoring the priority of the diaconate
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.
The booking for our annual conference on the 21st October is now open! This conference is a unique opportunity for Distinctive Deacons in the UK and beyond, many of whom work in isolation, to come together for fellowship, teaching and encouragement in the rich vocation to which they have been called. Deacons, deacon ordinands, deacon … Continue reading DEACONS: NATIONAL CONFERENCE 2023 “BREAKING NEW GROUND”
I have now formally stepped down as Chair of CENDD, and have handed over to Deacon Gill Newman, in whom I have the utmost confidence that she will lead the Network forward under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. I have been so grateful for all those who have worked alongside me, prayed with me, shared their wisdom and contributed to the steering group over the past six years. I am amazed and grateful at the way ~God has brought forward new deacons to take over and develop roles in the national steering group.
a weekend especially for distinctive deacons, reflecting on aspects of the Ordinal, with Bishop John Pritchard and Bishop James Newcome.
CofE Network of Distinctive Deacons 