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How to Become a Deacon: A Conversation on Vocation with The Rev. Deacon CJ Van Slyke
A woman stopped her in a hospital hallway and said: what you do is not a job. What you do is a ministry. CJ Van Slyke had been a nurse, a licensed counselor, a Red Cross mental health specialist deployed to flood zones, a Haiti mission worker, and a volunteer at a women's overnight shelter. She had been doing the work for years before she had a name for it. The name, it turned out, was deacon.
This week Mary Balfour sits down with her friend the Reverend Deacon CJ Van Slyke for a conversation about one of the most ancient and most misunderstood vocations in the church. A deacon is ordained to…
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