Also known as Collaborative Ministry, Mutual Ministry, Total Ministry.
- Local Shared Ministry is a way of structuring ministry so that the local church is responsible for establishing priorities for mission and ministry.
Local Shared Ministry helps us to recognise
- that every congregation is a ministering community, not a community gathered around a minister.
- that every member is a minister.
- that all the baptised have gifts and to release them for the good of the Church.
(1 Corinthians 12.11; Ephesians 4.7-12)
Not a programme or a system but a way of being, a culture.
Bishop Stewart Zabriskie, Nevada Diocese