This process of discernment is carried out through individual prayer and study, with family and friends, with the community of the faithful, and in the case of discerning a specific call to Holy Orders, with the Bishop, the Commission on Ministry and the Standing Committee.

The Commission on Ministry has created a resource to support all baptized persons to intentionally discern, and act on, their call to ministry using and seeking ways to use the gifts given to them in service to God; and to support congregations of baptized persons to actively and intentionally carry on their responsibility to recognize affirm and enable their individual members in their ministries of daily living. Congregational discernment of the ministry of all of the baptized empowers all the laos – lay and ordained – to be more intentional in their daily lives, and releases the church to become the staging and equipping ground for that work, not the focus of it.