Jason Silver

Monday, March 8th, 2004

Web Pastor Opening

The church of England is starting a new virtual church:

The Church of England began running ads Friday for an online vicar to take care of worshippers at its first internet parish.

The Internet started in 1993, it's 11 years later and the Church of England is only now considering this a place to connect with seeking people?

"We would be failing in our mission if we didn't provide a spiritual community for people who relate with each other primarily through the internet."

Interesting, but there are millions of church sites on the Internet already-- I wonder why they think this is necessary? The cool thing to me is that they recognize that a full time staff person is necessary to connect with people and actually 'pastor' them. They're not looking for a webmaster-- it appears they want someone to pray with, care for, and disciple users via the Internet. Hat tip to my mom for pointing out this story. ~Jason
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