What is the Role of Our Congregation in Having an Intern?
We provide the setting in which the above can take place as well as housing, a financial stipend, travel costs, etc. Most of all we are here to care for and nurture the intern with our loyalty, cooperation, understanding and prayers. What Will be the Role of the Intern in Our Congregation? The intern is not an assistant pastor and is not to assume all the work and responsibility of a full-time ministry. The intern is coming here to learn, to grow, to feel and understand what it means to become a pastor, a minister of Word and Sacrament. The intern cannot officiate at confirmations, ordinations, installations of pastors, serve as a full-time teacher in Christian day school, or solemnize marriages. The intern may administer Holy Baptism in emergencies and conduct funerals when requested by the pastor and in agreement with the parties involved. The intern may assist the pastor in all of these areas of ministry. The intern’s participation in the Eucharist will be similar to other non-ordai
