{"id":4454,"date":"2026-05-03T21:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T20:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mundhamhunstonchurches.co.uk\/?p=4454"},"modified":"2026-05-03T21:04:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T20:04:03","slug":"clare-leppard-authorised-as-lay-minister-9-may-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mundhamhunstonchurches.co.uk\/?p=4454","title":{"rendered":"Clare Leppard Authorised as Lay Minister : 9 May 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Commissioning of Authorised Lay Ministers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>at the Chichester Cathedral<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>on Saturday 9 May 2026 at 11am<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over 100 people from churches in the Diocese of Chichester will be commissioned as Authorised Lay Ministers (ALMs) by Bishop Ruth during a special service in the Cathedral on this coming Saturday, 9th May, marking one of the largest year groups ever to complete their skills-based training since the programme&#8217;s inception in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Clare Leppard, from St Stephen\u2019s Church, is one of the ALM\u2019s commissioned on Saturday. You are welcome to come and support her by attending the service!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Sunday 10 May,&nbsp;<strong>Clare will be leading a Service for Rogationtide in St Stephen\u2019s Church<\/strong>&nbsp;from 9:30 till 10am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commissioning of Authorised Lay Ministers at the Chichester Cathedral on Saturday 9 May 2026 at 11am Over 100 people from churches in the Diocese of Chichester will be commissioned as Authorised Lay Ministers (ALMs) by Bishop Ruth during a special service in the Cathedral on this coming Saturday, 9th May, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-st-stephens-church-mundham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mundhamhunstonchurches.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mundhamhunstonchurches.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mundhamhunstonchurches.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mundhamhunstonchurches.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mundhamhunstonchurches.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mundhamhunstonchurches.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4455,"href":"https:\/\/mundhamhunstonchurches.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4454\/revisions\/4455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mundhamhunstonchurches.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mundhamhunstonchurches.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mundhamhunstonchurches.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}