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Chairman: The Right Reverend Clive Young, The Bishop of Dunwich
Principal: The Reverend Dr Ian McIntosh
The Eastern Region Ministry Course is a part-time Course of theological education and training recognised by the Church of England, the United Reformed Church and the Methodist Church as a preparation for ordination. In both its gathered and dispersed life, it is a fellowship of people who believe they have been called to minister in the Church and for the world. They belong to the Course as a means of testing and training for this ministry and bring with them the experience of life and discipleship in the world.
Students come to the Course with a great variety of background experience and range in age from thirty to post-retirement. Some are trained for a ministry focused in the local Church and community, others to be primarily ministers in the work place.
They may be training for stipendiary or non-stipendiary ordained ministry or as Readers or other forms of accredited lay ministry.
For most students, the programme is a three-year course, combining academic study, activities in local Church contexts and a programme of residential weekends and a Summer School.
The Course serves the Church of England Dioceses of St Albans, Ely, Norwich, Peterborough, St Edmundsbury and Ipswich, the Diocese in Europe and the Methodist and United Reformed Churches in the same region. ERMC is a member of the Cambridge Theological Federation and has extensive links with other Church training institutions in the region. The programme is delivered through evening meetings at St Albans Abbey (Thursdays in term time) or through a dispersed learning programme, where students work one-to-one with a Tutor. Most students are studying for the BA in Christian Theology, validated by Anglia Ruskin University, or for the same University’s MA in Pastoral Theology. A smaller number of theology graduates undertake ERMC’s ‘Peterborough Project’ of full-time, mixed-mode training, with intensive experience in local Churches alongside study for the MA. On Thursday evenings, and throughout the residential programme, learning is set within a context of prayer and corporate worship.
The core staff are assisted by other colleagues from within the Cambridge Theological Federation and the region and by the involvement of many local clergy and others as Supervisors and Tutors.
Core Staff:
The Reverend Dr Malcolm Brown:- Co-Principal (Principal from August 2006)
Dr Esther Shreeve:- Vice-Principal, Director of Studies,
Methodist Tutor and Lecturer
Helen Stanton:- Director of Practical Theology & Peterborough
Project & Lecturer
The Reverend Edward Cardale:- Director of Pastoral Studies & Lecturer
The Reverend Richard Morgan:- Lecturer
Dr Holger Szesnat:- Lecturer & Academic Administrator
Barbara Clayton:- Principal’s Secretary
Jim Stirmey:- Bursar
For further information contact: ERMC, 5 Pound Hill, Cambridge CB3 0AE
Telephone: 01223 741026; Fax: 01223 741027; e-mail: secretary@ermc.cam.ac.uk
February 2006
