Around 1200 young people will be attending this year’s 3Generate, the Methodist Children and Youth Assembly, where youth speak out and into the Church on the issues that matter to them.
A report encouraging discussion on the future shape of ministry of the Methodist Church has been welcomed by the Methodist Conference, the governing body of the Methodist Church.
Following debate at the General Synod, the Church of England’s Faith and Order Commission is to undertake further refinement and clarification on proposals that would see the Church of England and the Methodist Church enter into a relationship of communion and enable an interchange of their presbyteral ministries.
The number of people entering training to become priests in the Church of England is at the highest level for a decade, with women making up more than half the total.
The “inauguration of the ministry of the one hundred and fifth Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Portal Welby” (as the order of service described it) was a powerful and sometimes moving act of worship.