The Diocese of Swansea and Brecon. The Council for Ministry.
All clerics exercise a pastoral and a liturgical ministry.
But there are some clerics whose ministry is exercised within the framework of a parish, but whose boundaries are wider and whose life-style is different. Non stipendiary ministers receive no living expenses from the Church, and support themselves financially. They can be reimbursed for travelling expenses, telephone calls and so on. Family commitments can make it impossible for a person to be sufficiently flexible to work in the stipendiary ministry, and some feel that their pastoral ministry would best be exercised at their place of work, enabling Christians there to fulfil their ministry in that place. Such a ministry is exercised in such a way that it provides regular contact with people who never attend Church, and who have no formal contacts with any religion.