When the Abbey at Pawley’s Island was considering adding an additional worship service, they did so through the lens of the discipleship culture they’ve been developing for several years—one that prepares not only adults but youth to live out their callings. “You don’t need to be ordained to do about 70 to 80% of our…

Percy Strickland, Associate Rector at the Abbey at Pawley’s Island, explains that because of Anglicanism’s use of tools like prayer books, teens can get involved in much of the service simply through reading. “Why not allow these guys to get the experience of reading a prayer or reading scripture more regularly or doing all of these other things?” he proposes. “We say this every service: ‘This is more about participation than performance. It's more about formation than formality.’”