Chaplains

Ruby Community Chaplaincy

We are blessed with three lay ministers who have all undergone different but extensive chaplaincy training and we are looking for this number to grow. Our churches are largely older people with small Sunday service congregations but most churches have shown growth in the last two years and we frequently fill our churches for festivals and occasional offices. We urgently need to develop work with young families, schools, and itinerant communities, including the isolated and lonely.

We have therefore decided to adopt a ‘pioneer’ approach, with mixed economy which takes church to our people when urgently needed. A rural and locally based ‘community chaplaincy’ (RCC) has been developed to address this issue. This approach supports the incredible work already being undertaken, in all our churches, and seeks to build upon it developing a team based, mutually responsive and dynamic resource to deploy across the three parishes of the Ruby Holywell Group.