I attended KCME today, which is our ongoing training ‘post ordination’. I don’t know of it is just me, but I do seem to find this extracting myself from mission to consider, in today’s case the role of the deacon, to be quite frustrating.

It is important to continue to learn, and not just because the role of ‘curate’ is a training role – but I do wish that the training takes account of what we already know and have experienced. It seems we start again at base level and ‘forget’ that we have all been on at least 3 years part time training or 2 years full time training at Bible college. Maybe SEITE was different to others, but I am frustrated because I do not think I learned anything different today from the a whole weekends training on the deaconate and priesthood in May.

It was good, however, to meet up with my colleague curates and hear stories of what God is doing in each others lives and through each others ministries and then chatting over the issues raised. It is both amazing and encouraging to hear what each of us is experiencing and how we are dealing with certain issues. It was also useful to hear other peoples input into situations and point out things that those incvolved had not noticed or realised. This, however, was squeezed into 40 minutes and I came away thinking today that we had got the timings all wrong – 40 minutes on the deaconate and 2 hours on stories from our situations may have been more useful.
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