Bishop issues call for new clergy and lay leaders

The Bishop of Lichfield has issued a call for more churchgoers to offer themselves as clergy or lay leaders. The Rt Rev Jonathan Gledhill’s comments came in a recorded message played in churches across the Diocese of Lichfield on Sunday.

Since the Decade of Evangelism in the 1980s it has been the tradition in the diocese for a taped message from the bishop to be played in all his 585 churches on the second Sunday in January.

In his latest message, the Bishop talked abut the “exciting turnaround” in the five years since 2002, when the diocese was heading towards bankruptcy, and talks of a “wonderful confirmation of God’s love”.

In his message, Bishop Gledhill highlighted a number of growth signs in the diocese, including the licensing in 2007 of the largest number of lay leaders in memory and the several thousand returnees on Back to Church Sunday. Read more
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