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DIOCESAN MINISTERIAL TRAINING SCHOOL

The Accra Diocesan Lay Ministerial Training School was officially inaugurated in Accra on the 20th day of May in the year of our Lord 1997 by the Lord Bishop of Accra, Rt. Rev. Justice Offei Yaw Akrofi.

AIMS
To equip men and women for effective work in the various ministries of the church as Catechist, Lay Ministers, Evangelists and Lay Pastors. To assist individuals in their growth as Christians so that they will use their God given gifts in their respective churches and also to evangelize the world in which they live.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
The school is governed by a Board of committed Christians , men and women lay and ordained.

PLACE
The Diocesan Ministerial Training School is located at the premises of the St. Barnabas Anglican School at Osu.

Each year the programme will commence in January and end in December . Courses are held on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5:00pm to 7:30pm. Saturdays from 9:00am to 11:00 am will be used for special programmes. The training of candidates around Tema would be held at St. Albans Church Tema. Time will be scheduled.

QUALIFICATION
The minimum educational background should be GCE/SSCE or City and Guilds. The school is opened to all who have a call to take up lay Pastoral leadership roles in the Ministry of the church. Candidates may be sponsored by their parishes.

LAY TRAINING IN THE ANGLICAN CHURCH
One way to see Ministry is to see it as “Service “ to humanity in the everyday work of the world . Ministry is not just within the church, for as St. John Chapter 3:16 reminds us it was because “God so loved the world that he sent his only begotten Son” Christ built his church on a foundation of service of Humankind.

“If your Lord and Master has washed your feet, then you ought to wash one another’s feet” (St. John ch. 13 vrs. 14)
“The Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve” (St. Mark ch. 10 vrs 46)

It follows therefore that when we speak of Ministry we as followers of Jesus Christ must follow His example of “Ministry as Service” .In this way our Ministry will be rendering service which is a Gift from God.

In the past there has been a tendency to leave the Ministry of the Church to those who have been Ordained but now we recognize that it belongs to all those who have been Baptized . Ministry us fir all who have committed themselves to follow Christ.

Ministry that is not limited to a particular group of people within the church. It should be performed by all the Baptized. The New Testament mentions many Ministries.

“He appointed some to be Apostles, others to be Prophets, others to be Evangelists others to be Pastors or Teachers. He did this to prepare all God’s people for the work of Christians in order to build up the body of Christ” (Eph. Ch. 4 vrs. 11, Romans 12 : 7)

In order to exercise their Ministry effectively within the church, the people of God need a well structured programme of training . The following outline is a recommended of training to equip Lay Ministers in the Church.


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Solidarity Statement with the Anglican Church in Zimbabwe

‘The custodians of the law are the ones denying us access, threatening to arrest us or use teargas, to force us out. There are church wardens who have been arrested and some who bear marks of beatings.’ – Bishop Chad Gandiya, Anglican Diocese of Harare, February 2010

From: Ecumenical Zimbabwe Network (EZN)
Issued: 23 June 2010

The Ecumenical Zimbabwe Network (EZN) wishes to express its steadfast solidarity and prayer with and for the parishioners and leaders of the Anglican Church in Zimbabwe.

Since January 2008 the crisis in the Anglican Church has turned into clear and unacceptable violations of the freedom to worship and freedom of association for thousands of worshippers across Zimbabwe. Over the past two years bishops from the Anglican Diocese of Harare have reported a series of cases where worshippers were locked out of churches they had attended for generations. They have reported police and militia attacks and intimidation of church wardens, members of the Mothers’ Union and other congregations. In June 2008 the Anglican Bishops of the Province of Central Africa released a Pastoral Letter entitled ‘ I Have Heard the Cry of My People’ in which they expressed their pain and protest against the Zimbabwean government’s failure to uphold and protect the rights of Anglicans to worship as enshrined in the country’s constitution. Such actions are also contrary to Zimbabwe’s obligations under international conventions such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

Pain in any part of the Body of Christ is pain for the whole Body of Christ.