These stories will help you reflect on what it is to go into training for ministry. You might be encouraged by how different, or how similar, their lives or callings are compared to your own experience. See what you think!  

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		Andrew Cooper wasn’t sure about going back to college...				Wendy Dalrymple wanted to be ordained when she was 14 years old...
		Kip Chelshaw knows other people sensed his calling before he did…				Ben Rhodes is a hospital chaplain in London...
		Becca Phillips wants to be a prison chaplain…				Sam Foster only went to church as a teenager to please her mum...
		Lusa Nsenga-Ngoy came from the Congo via Belgium...				Clay Rountree came from Oklahoma to university in Sheffield...
		Emma Johnson had a vision of herself as a priest…
		Luke Tillett originally applied for teacher-training…
		David Young was working for a homeless charity when he felt called...

Read the life stories of some young people going through their ordination training: 

Tim Yao's story...
Tim’s friend said he was thinking about becoming a priest. Tim laughed in his face...

Louise Codrington-Marshall's story...
Louise went through years of denial, asking God, 'Are you crazy?  

Sylvester Liyanage's story
Sri Lankan Sylvester came to England for a degree in aerospace engineering...  

Frances Quist's story...
At the age of 11 Frances knew she wanted to join the religious life...