Welcome!
I'm the senior minister in an Anglican church where I am the only paid minister. I have been in paid ministry since 2000, when I graduated from Moore Theological College in Sydney, Australia. I've worked in Sydney Diocese, Melbourne Diocese, the Diocese of Gippsland in Victoria, and now the Diocese of Grafton in NSW; and I've led services ranging from an average of 8, up to four hundred or so. If you want to know how to lead congregations of a thousand or more, this is probably not the blog for you!
I love teaching and training; love passing on the joy of being engaged in (organised) ministry, whether it's what you do in the hours you have free from family and work commitment, or it's your life's work; love seeing people take the first few tentative steps, then gather confidence, and then out-strip anything I could teach them.
In my last church there were quite a few keen beans who wanted to learn how to lead services, and I started this blog to encourage them - and others that I believed would be gifted leaders - to give it a go. Now I'm eager to encourage members of my current church to grow as leaders or discover their gifting, and I'm bubbling over with things to pass on from the past 19 and more years.
So I'm writing this as a living growing library of service leading principles, advice, and practicalities, that I can modify and update as I get wiser, and continue to learn from my own experience and other people. I plan to use it as a training resource for the people I am leading, but at the same time, I'd love it to be a resource for people I've never met, who want to have a go at leading services in their churches, Anglican or otherwise.
If there's anything on this blog that you'd like to copy and paste, feel free; if you want to print something, click on its title, then scroll to the bottom, where a 'print' button should have magically appeared.
