Student minister for St. Andrew's
St. Andrew's has been approved as a learning site for a student minister. Henry Poutainen will be with us full-time from Sept. 1 through April 30. Henry is a student at Emmanuel College and has thirty years of experience as an active lay person. He and his family are members of Jubilee United Church in north Toronto. He will participate in all areas of congregational life and will be our speaker at the September 5 worship service. He will work as part of the staff team.
The education and formation of members of the Order of Ministry is an important task of the church. One component of education and formation is the supervised ministry education experience, which takes place in an internship. An internship is an opportunity for a candidate for ministry to engage in the practice of ministry and to reflect on this experience with others. The task of providing supervised ministry education experiences has many partners: congregations, lay supervision teams, supervisors, and the people of God. There will be a Lay Supervision team from the congregation and Katherine Corlett and Janet MacPherson will be his supervisors.