Recommendations for Advancing Lay Ecclesial Ministry

A Goal of the Symposium was to create national recommendations to advance lay ecclesial ministry in the United States.  Recommendations were generated in the areas of Pathways to Ministry, Formation for Lay Ecclesial Ministry, Authorization for Lay Ecclesial Ministry and Workplace Issues.

Shown below are three distinct ways of looking at the Symposium recommendations.  The Executive Summary provides a summary of both the dialogues and the recommendations; the Recommendation Synthesis combines similar recommendations made at the Symposium; and the Table Recommendations provides the raw data from the symposium of all the recommendations.

The Executive Summary and Recommendation Synthesis documents were written by the planning committee after thoughtful consideration of the recommendations.  We believe these documents provide a clearer interpretation of the symposium recommendations than the table recommendations alone.

Pathways Recommendations:

• Executive Summary
• Recommendation Synthesis
• Table Recommendations

Formation Recommendations:

• Executive Summary
• Recommendation Synthesis
• Table Recommendations

Authorization Recommendations:

• Executive Summary
• Recommendation Synthesis
• Table Recommendations

Workplace Recommendations:

• Executive Summary
• Recommendation Synthesis
• Table Recommendations

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