Yay! Ben is going to be officially ordained on October 14th! We are very excited because this has been a long time in the works. Some of you may wonder, "What does it mean to be ordained?" Here is the answer I found online:
Answer: To be ordained is the public acknowledging by the church that is led by the Holy Spirit in recognizing God's call upon a candidate for the capacity of ministering the ministry of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Even though Ben has been preaching for nearly a year, he could not yet administer Communion, do marriages, funeral, baptisms, etc.
We are extra happy that Ben is going to be ordained in his family's home church, so that his family and old Sunday school students and teachers, can be there.
3 comments:
congratulations, ben!
Thanks, Laura. We wish that you and Maureen could be here. I will post pictures of the new Reverend next week.
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