How many other people in my situation have been excluded from a ministry in our Diocese due to this inability to be flexible, why are Incumbents recommendations not being listened to & local Practical experience being utilized to provide the Bishop with the assurance needed for LLMs/Readers ? 4/4

My Local congregation has affirmed multiple times keeping in mind we had 3 years of a pandemic which meant distance and remote learning was refined, but apparently its impossible because in Exeter Diocese @churchofengland.org only has one pathway that seems at least 30 years out of date 3/

Well they acknowledged things needed to change but that currently because I couldnt meet the Saturday requirement I needed to withdraw but if my working pattern changed in the future do get back in contact

For an LLM Voluntary calling my paid work is being used to exclude me from something 2/

During the Pandemic you had no choice but to adapt at breakneck speed using and distance learning practises there is no excuse none as to why someone working a Saturday should have to withdraw. I will be writing to the Archdeacon and Bishops of Plymouth & Exeter shortly 9/

I have to come to realise this I am a volunteer you the Church of England specifically the Exeter Diocese need to meet me some of the way here. You currently abandon us working people who work Saturdays and feel that is acceptable as your stuck in last century ll end on this 8/

It seems only a few Diocese offer something called the Pathway which is designed for working-age people to be flexible around their working commitments. In what has been a deeply upsetting time where I have spent months tying myself in knots how to make this work 7/

This past week, I had it confirmed January 25 I will start working Saturdays, so I need to ask as they are on here @diotruro.bsky.social do you have anything for working people who happen to work Saturdays or do you take the same path as Exeter 6/

Of people in work its an absolute scandal that an active Church Warden and someone who has 6 years of practical experience thank to their generous vicar can be stopped from pursuing a vocation when everyone including the Diocese has affirmed their suitability well.....5/

The implication is that the Diocese of Exeter currently isn't putting anyone who is in work which happens to include Saturdays through LLM training, as those people cant make the Saturdays of the Durham Common Award..... Just how can this be acceptable and how discriminatory is it 4/

I was told "oh thats difficult as we cant be flexible" 3 options were presented 1)if and when Saturday working came into force I could defer- Its a working pattern deferment would do nothing except drag things out. 2) Withdraw from the course 3) They would write to my employer 3/

As such I wanted to discuss what the Diocese could do since LLMs are volunteers, what they could do to offer me some flexibility after all I can hardly be the first working person to encounter this issue or so I thought 3/

I was informed that my secular paid job could start Saturday working, in the Diocese of Exeter who arent on BlueSky yet like many Diocese in the Church of England follow the Durham Common Award which requires a number of Residential Saturdays that are vital. 2/