News from The Scottish Episcopal Institute
New venture: From 31 August to 4 September SEI staff and students will be
resident in St Mary’s Monastery Kinnoull for five ‘Orientation Days’. Running
a Summer School at the end of the academic year was becoming
increasingly inappropriate in view of the number of candidates with school-
age children, and so it was decided to begin each year with a programme of
community-building, worship and study, an extension of the former Induction
Day.
Core staff will provide the taught input, but a number of visitors will be
welcomed throughout the programme:
Bishop Kevin as Convenor of the Institute Council, the Revd Graham Taylor
as SEI Chaplain and Edinburgh City Centre Workplace Chaplain Andrew
Gregg who will introduce the Workplace Chaplaincy Scotland placement to
the first year students.
Please keep the student body in your prayers as the new formational year
begins. Diocesan Advisors’ Training Day:
Ordinations and Licensings in September and October
Megan Cambridge: By Bishop Mark on Sunday 28 October at 17.00 in Holy
Trinity Keith, to serve there as a Lay Reader.
Eleanor Charman: By Bishop Mark on Saturday 15 September at 15:00 in
St Andrew’s Cathedral Inverness, to serve as Assistant Curate in St John
the Evangelist Wick and St Peter and the Holy Rood, Thurso.
Lee Johnston: By Bishop Gregor on Sunday 30 September at 18.30 in St
Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow to serve as Assistant Curate in the congregation
of Christ Church Lanark.
Caroline Longley: By Bishop John on Tuesday 25 September at 19.00 in
the Church of the Good Shepherd, Murrayfield, Edinburgh, to serve there as
Lay Reader.
Andrew Philip: By Bishop John on Sunday 30 September at 15.00 in St
Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh, to serve as Chaplain therein.
On Thursday 30 August 7 new Diocesan Advisors met in the General
Synod Office for a day’s training. DAs are a crucial part of the students’
formation, being the ‘local’ people who monitor and support each ordinand or
Reader candidate, remaining alongside through the two/three-year course.
They meet with the student for a time of prayer and reflection every month
through the academic year, keeping notes on the candidate’s development
and accompanying him/her to the annual Appraisal Conference.
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