I think Bill Stringfellow says, the clergy are to be servants of congregations, that congregations may become servants of the world. On this list to co-officiate are some retired clergy and some serving in appointments beyond the local church. We remember, Jesus is always the baptized, the whole people, not the baptizer, the clergy. Recycled a few times, to be sure.
Water covers four-fifths of the earth's surface.
Water makes up four-fifths of our own bodies. Yet, like all of the gifts of creation, our water lives in trouble and in danger today. In baptism, through the waters, God's love is felt by ALL our senses to be so real, so new, so fresh, so cleansing, so nourishing, so sustaining, as all the waters themselves. Baptism is to communion, perhaps, as our gifts are to our callings to offer our gifts. As our identities are to our vocations.