Pamela Marsham will be licensed as a Lay Associate Minister at Guildford Cathedral on Saturday, July 5th at 10.30am.

As a Lay Associate Minister, Pamela will continue work alongside Lexi and the rest of the ministry team. Her course has focused on preaching, teaching and discipleship and she has also done the diocese’s Worship Leaders Course.

“That for me is the most important as my focus is on leading worship. and Lexi is keen for me to continue to do that,” says Pamela. “I have been lucky really, in that I have been able to gain experience in this while training.”

During the course, Pamela particularly valued meeting others who were on the same path as she was. She adds: “We were all on a journey and it was exciting as we didn’t really know what it would actually lead us to do.  I think there are some in the group who will continue the journey and probably go on to train to either be LLMs or even become ordained.  Those roles are definitely not what I will do as obviously age is against me but I can lead worship and that is a great privilege.  I hope, too, that I am showing that age is not a barrier to serving God. 

“I am also reading more theology and am constantly learning more about what the Scriptures teach us.”

Tickets to the licensing have been allocated but if you would still like to attend you can do so and can have unreserved seating which will be towards the back of the cathedral.