The Peter Stream and Elizabeth Pathway
The Peter Stream is a year-long programme designed to identify and encourage the gifts and calling of people from under-represented backgrounds.
It offers a distinctive experience, complementing the Church of England discernment process by offering candidates a diverse community of peers to journey closely with throughout the year, as well as theological and formational teaching within the context of a worshipping community at St Mellitus College.
The Peter Stream exists to redress the most significant underrepresentation in ordained leadership in the Church of England — ethnic, social, educational — and so is open to candidates from those demographics.
The Church of England's Elizabeth Pathway is an ordination training route created to support older, experienced lay leaders who sense a call to ordained ministry.
The Elizabeth Pathway aims to revitalize the church by preparing experienced leaders who are called to serve in their local context as self-supporting ordained ministers. Through a two-year pathway, the Elizabeth Pathway is designed specifically for mature and experienced lay leaders to offer both discernment and training for ordination, supporting the Diocesan national discernment processes, preparing candidates for ordination ordinarily after two years.