Mission based training in Down and Dromore
Church Army has recently adopted a mission- based training model and we are delighted to have two centres of mission in the Diocese of Down and Dromore.
The first is at St Saviour’s, Craigavon and the second is in Willowfield Church in East Belfast. A Church Army Centre of Mission is a place where pioneer ministry and training come together in a parish context. Within this model, a trainee evangelist works alongside 2 other evangelists, one of whom is their training enabler, as they learn "on the job".
In Willowfield, Gordon Lamb has just begun the programme alongside his training enabler George Newell. At St Saviour’s, trainee Matthew Rowley has been working alongside Myrtle Morrison and Brian Wisener. For 4 years they will engage in ministry and at the same time complete a period of study.
Myrtle Morrison is enthusiastic about the Centre of Mission concept saying, “It’s a context in which trainees and evangelists can grow in their relationship with God and grow in their confidence to experiment in reaching out to all sorts of different people. Over the next 4 years each will gain confidence to develop their unique ministry and the parish will benefit. They say that Craigavon is the city that never happened, but for me it is a mission that is very much happening and we see God at work in quiet and miraculous ways within homes around the city.”