Vocations Sunday resources
A series of helpful video stories that can be used all year round for vocations-themed services
VOCATIONS SUNDAY IS ON 26 April and is an opportunity for churches to focus on encouraging everyone to consider God’s call on their lives. The National Vocations Team have created resources which can be used throughout the year for services with a vocations theme:
Stories to inspire and use in vocation events:
The following videos and playlists can be used to share with enquirers either at parish or diocesan level:
Called to serve
An introductory film to lay and ordained ministry based on the 23rd Psalm featuring a parish priest, a lay children and youth minister, a Reader or Licensed Lay Minister and a priest serving in a cathedral:
Self-supporting ordained ministry playlist
A hairdresser, solicitor, teacher and data consultant share their vocations stories that brought them to self-supporting ordained ministry. Hear also from the lead bishop for self-supporting ordained ministry who began training for ordination when she was a probation officer.
Is it you?
A selection of short films from a variety of people from a bishop who supports those training for ordination to people newly ordained as well as lay.
Classism: Why it matters
Vocations stories from lay and ordained ministers from working class backgrounds.
The religious life
A series of videos from Mucknell Abbey sharing life as a monk or a nun and including testimony from alongsiders who are spending time with the community as part of their discernment.
What happens at an ordination service?
Directory of Ministry for Blackburn Diocese, the Revd Anne Beverley explains.
Called by Name
An annual event for people of UKME heritage exploring their call.
Related resources
The Curriculum: For churches with children’s and youth ministers
Children and young people’s leaders
Engaging families and young people through Messy Church
Children, young people and families
