The Anglican Church Southern Queensland is pleased to offer Pastoral Care
Volunteer training workshops. The course runs over two separate Saturdays and the
fee is $20 for both days which includes a workbook, and morning and afternoon
tea (BYO lunch).
The course offers...
Faith Formation for Yrs 10-12?
Got a few young people on the edges of your parish but no resources to do things for and with them? Maybe their parents come to church but the kids are a bit on the outer? Senior Ichthus sounds just right for you. Run by our own AYCF department, Senior Ichthus will help those young people to consider their own faith and enable them to bring that wonderfully positive experience back to their parishes...
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Christian education is about small groups. And I like Zebras!
Training in Christian Education
Ever wondered what drives great ideas for ministry across the ages? Knowing how Christian education works, what underpins it and how to do it better is a start! Jonathan Sargeant is coordinating Christian Education (THL366) next semester at St Francis Theological College. Find out more here...
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Selma - Film review
Everyone loves a movie with a message, especially when that message is something uplifting or inspiring. Sometimes, though, the message can overpower the film, or more to the point, the message is something we could all agree with, but the film itself does not do that message justice. I'm not pointing any fingers (cough* Invictus), but does a movie like Selma live up to the message it carries?
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The Faithful Families blog
Research suggests that if you want the faith of children to grow it needs to happen primarily in the home. It's great to have supporting programs happening in the parish but the home is the locus.
Taking this seriously, Stephen Harrison has created the Faithful Families blog, weekly resources to help families grow faith at home. Every idea is simple and easily used.
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Directing the spiritual life
The MEC Spiritual Direction Formation Program is an ecumenical program that offers participants the opportunity with experienced spiritual directors to both discern the call to the ministry of spiritual direction and develop the skills necessary to assist others in discovering the sacred in everyday life.
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Wish I Was Here
Aidann Bloom (Zach Braff) and his wife Sarah are facing one of life’s great challenges: Aidann’s dad, Gabe (Mandy Patinkinn) is dying. If that wasn’t enough, Gabe’s health means that Aidann needs to start homeschooling their children. But what does he know? Not much as most of the kids’ questions, inspired by their grandfather’s plight, are about faith, belief and other big life questions.
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How One Church Is Finding Faith Through Art
My colleague Stephen Harrison and I have long been interested in ways that we can learn about faith through the arts. A little while back we wrote some of that work up. That work was aimed at schools but I'm always excited to see worshipping communities doing the same thing.
Read MoreThe Jesus Dojo
Imagine a world where we shifted our mindsets about worship: from worship services to service worship?
What if we gathered together to encourage each other towards love and good deeds by actually doing love and good deeds together in the name of Christ?
Jon Humphries shares:
"What if our worship was spiritual and faith practice joined as one? Where we listened for the Word of God who is Jesus as we reflected on Scripture by living out the teaching, by actually feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, visiting the imprisoned, setting the captives free, helping the blind to see and proclaiming the time of the Lord's favour?
I love Mark Scandrette's concept of the 'Jesus dojo'. The idea of making faith an actual practice, where we practice our faith by exercising our faith in loving service to God and others at the same time in real and practical ways, is pretty inspiring.
The problem is that it requires me to step out of a perfectly safe boat (even one which seems to be slowly sinking) and step out with Jesus onto the water. What if I don't have enough faith and sink?
We all know what the right answer. I just would love some people to step out with me."
www. Anglicannews.org is a service that aggregates news from around the Anglican communion into one easy site, making it simple to keep up to date with the Anglican Church around the world.
As well as listing the news, you can sign up for a daily email that means you get a reminder of what's going on and where.
One of the by-products of a site like this is that you can glance over its contents and get an interesting picture of what the Anglican Church is all about. What does it think is important? Where do its values lie? One answer to that question is found here.