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Welcome to the January 2007 Children's Workers' newsletter. |
Happy New Year from all at MethodistChildren. We hope that 2007 is a good year for all your work with children. The next few months are shaping up to be very busy already with lots of opportunities to enhance the work you are doing with children inside and outside the Church. As always we will being as many of these opportunities to your attention and welcome news from you of anything happening where you are. Please consider attending one of our 'Building Strong Towers' events which is a real first for tackling difficult situations and also continuing to build on our partnership work with other agencies. Please keep in touch with is this year!
Building Strong Towers
Download the Information and Booking Form here! |
Upcoming in March is a wonderful tour being organised by Scripture Union, the United Reformed Church, NCH, the Church of England, and MethodistChildren.CORE
A Welsh version is now available too and courses are starting in all four nations, so you can join a course, gather your own group together or read it by yourself. There is also a course being run at Swanwick over the weekend of 15-17 June when you can join a group to work through all the modules of CORE or join a group to train as a CORE trainer. Further details will follow on this.
Don't forget that you'll get a free copy of CORE if you register a course on the website www.coreskillsforchurches.com New, additional modules are now being written for spring publication, one for Young Leaders and one on Transitions. Later in the year there will be a module on Special Needs and we would like to hear from anyone who has experience or suggestions for this area in relation to work with children within or outside the Church |
Sales of CORE have exceeded all our expectations and are already in the thousands! Resource Reviews
Further Lent and Easter resources will be added to the website in the next few weeks! Watch for the second volume of Companions in Christ which offers material to journey through this important church season with children. Available from mph later this month www.mph.org.uk.
So, Who is God? Did he make the world? Where did he come from? Does he ever go to bed? Why do bad things happen to good people? This book for 8-10 year-olds encourages exploration of these questions and many more, either individually or in groups. The book contains brainteasers, memory verses and fascinating facts as ways of using the Bible and helping readers understand what knowing God can mean. So, Why God? This resource is especially suitable for use with children who are not part of a church community and can be used as a discipleship course. It’s ideal for groups of all sizes, aged 7-11. The sessions are split into two blocks of six and can be used with a midweek club or a one-off event. Thanks to our friends at Scripture Union we have been able to obtain a few more copies of the Family Activity Organiser for 2007. These are a great resource and if you would like one then please drop us an e-mail at the usual address! |
Love Life and Live Lent for Kids
So, Who is God?Children's Ministry Course London School of Theology, in collaboration with Scripture Union, are running a conference from 30 March - 1 April 2007 on the subject of children’s ministry. This conference will provide practical and theoretical material to inspire volunteers and children's workers to develop the ministry in their church. Sessions include:
How can we use games to teach?
How can we encourage children to pray?
How can we work with under 5’s?
How can we care for children and young people?
How can we develop vision and strategy for our group?
How can we meet the needs of the whole family?
How can we reach out to children who do not attend church?
If you would like a leaflet or further information, do contact our Open Learning Department on 01923 456230 or email: open@lst.ac.uk |
Child Evangelism Research
Download the Questionaire here (Word Document) |
Mark Griffiths is writing a doctoral research thesis on child evangelism with the | Request for help
Did you have a Covenant Service that involved the children in your Church? If so, we would really like to hear about it as we trying to collect good ideas from around the Connexion. Please e-mail them to us at children@methodistchurch.org.uk |
We have received an e-mail from Altrincham Methodist Church asking us this - Methodist Youth and Children's Workers' Conference A joint conference from MAYC and Methodist Children primarily for full and part-time workers with children and young people. If you know of any workers who would benefit from this conference please let them know all about it! Download the Information and Booking form here. |
High Leigh Conference CentreCommunicating the Bible today: a conversation |
Sector minister, Brian D Brown, of the Oxford circuit, has since his retirement as Head of the Television Research Unit at the former Oxford Polytechnic (now Oxford Brookes University), devoted his ministry to communicating the gospels and other Bible stories to children on mainstream television. He spent over seven years devising and co-creating the ITV children’s hit The StoryKeepers and more recently has created another major series, the first 13 episodes of 39 of which were due to be released in the autumn/winter of 2006. Brian believes the time has come to explore with churches at district, circuit or local level the implications for our common mission of the issues he has encountered in creating these series. The discussions will centre on the biblical and theological issues raised by seeking to reach out to the biblically illiterate with stories from the New and Old Testaments. The concern is mission and with the Church’s outreach to the millions who may watch television but never meet to hear sermons. The objective is to begin a conversation to enable all to learn and to fulfil our calling to the world.|
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you require any further information please contact us on children@methodistchurch.org.uk MethodistChildren is part of the Connexional Team of the |
