Clergy Training Manual

The Church provides manditory training in all three Rites of Passage (Baptism, Weddings, Funerals) and beyond, to all sucessful candiates who have applied to become clergy members in Clergy Support Memorial.  Our overall training program is composed of a mixture of methods, including email and online website information, as well as mentoring, shadowing and webinars.  

Firstly, in each Province we serve, the Church has an information blog devoted to the training of its clergy in each province.

Secondly, the Church has a dedicated website which provides detailed basic online training courses.  A regular monthly visit to this website ensures our members maintain and deepen and broaden their knowledge through continuing education.

Thirdly, the church has a Board Certification process. It is the Church Board, made up of a committee of senior ranking officials, who determine either in a ‘postive’ or ‘negative’ vote whether a candidate is deemed sucessfull to become certified clergy in CSMC. Certification in the church is either by Appointment or Ordination. The type of certification determines the path for the candidate to grow their duties and their ministry.  

Examples of the content of two of these programs follow.

1. Celebrant Training Institute

On the Church’s new https://canadiancelebrantinstitute.ca/about-us/, one can find new, detailed training modules some such are:

  • Theology 101
  • Clergy Support and Pastoral Care
  • Baptisms and Naming Ceremonies
  • Funerals and Celebrations of Life
  • The Wedding Planning Meeting
  • The Wedding Ceremony
  • Clergy Support and Pastoral Care
  • Communion
  • LGBTQ+ Considerations for Diverse Sexualities and Gender
  • Provincial Legal Issues

This is an ongoing project. The next courses we hope to offer will include Making the Most out of Time with Seniors,  What you Should Know About Home Churches and Empathy Pastoral Counselling.

2. Provincial Training Blogs

On this new Provincial training blog, https://csmcnovascotia.blog/, one can read expanded information on the subject of our rites and usages. In addition, it contains important published statements regarding Faith, Beliefs, and Ministry. In particular, please see the following items:

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