Justin Nunez
Lay Missioner-in-training 

I grew up in the small town of El Centro, located two hours east of San Diego.  In 2015 I moved to Riverside county.  In 2020 at the age of 25, I made the move to San Diego to be closer to family and to start my life over. I vowed to myself that I would find God’s purpose. I began researching churches, one where I could find meaning and direction. God brought me to the Anglican Church, specifically one in the Anglican Church in North America called Holy Trinity. I have called Holy Trinity my home since November of 2020, and I have never felt more alive for Christ.

What is a Lay Missioner?
A Lay Missioner is usually a bi-vocational lay leader with gifts of gathering and catalyzing, pastoring and teaching and leading and managing who are called to start a new missional community/Local Church by gathering people into a process of missional discipleship formation so that disciples and Christ-centered missional communities are birthed, formed and multiplied to the glory of God.
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What does a Lay Missioner do?
A Lay Missioner builds Christ-centered missional community through the principles and practices of reproducing disciple-making, so that Christ-centered communities are developed, matured and multiplied. A Lay Missioner may work alongside a Deacon or a Presbyter to work among a people group or neighborhood where an Anglican missional community/Local Church would promote the purposes of God.

What does a Lay Missioner in Training do?
​A Lay Missioner-in-Training will be involved in supervised ministry activities that will develop skills and knowledge essential to the work of a Lay Missioner, much like an internship would provide.  Mentoring clergy may utilize shadowing, teaching, mentoring, coaching and training.  Supervised ministry activities may include such things as preaching or teaching in a setting where the Clergy Mentor is present,  shadowing during pastoral visitation, leading mission training activities with others competent in the subject are providing helpful support and feedback and community-based mission engagement works that are structured as much for learning as for productivity.