Don’t become an ordinand unless you are well-off, that was the message of a new report released by the Church of England.<\/p>\n
The Living Ministry research follows cohorts of 85 ordinands and clergy through their ministry over a decade.<\/p>\n
According to the report, non-residential ordinands who started training in retirement, maintaining their pension drawings or those who retain an adequate salary even after a reduction in working hours to fit in training,report the best financial wellbeing.<\/p>\n
This is the same for those whose main household income is their partner\u2019s (about two thirds are reliant to some extent on income from their partner).<\/p>\n
One male participant reported:\u201cI think actually [the Church has]probably got it bang on that that is what you need to live on, because I can live on that, but it is so tight that anything extra that comes up, you\u2019ve got no way of doing anything.\u201d<\/p>\n