AOCM
The Association of Ordinands and Candidates for Ministry
Into The Wild Blue Yonder?
Simon Heathfield from CPAS explores finding your first post after training
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AOCM Conferences - 2009 to 2010
Conferences for College and Course representatives for the forthcoming year are as follows:
Saturday 17th October 2009 - Cranmer Hall, Durham
Saturday 16th January 2010 - Trinity, Bristol
Saturday 17th April 2010 - Oxford, …
About AOCM
Welcome to AOCM’s website. We hope you find it useful. If you don’t - or if there are things we can add… don’t suffer in silence, let us know ….. you can send an email using our contact form. AOCM exists - according to its constitution - to:
Represent members’ opinions and
Represent members to Ministry Division committees -
through meetings between chair and secretary with Min Div members
Reflect on training for ministry - through articles on the website, sharing news
Report on issues of training - through reps meetings and the website
The representational role is primarily a collective rather than an individual responsibility. Members’ first port of call should always be their own institution or Diocese and AOCM represents individuals as a matter of last resort. Representation to Min Div can be improved with more solid information about general trends and concerns and better targeting of issues to the appropriate committee or organisation eg some things are Diocesan responsibilities. Another aspect of AOCM’s role is sharing of best practice as between institutions and Dioceses
AOCM Member Sites
We are launching a new initiative, enabling each training institution represented by AOCM to have their own website. The vision is to enable any prospective ordinand or church member to …
