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Sunday Workshops
Please choose on of the following when you register for Sunday workshops.
Waking the dead: Leading Sunday Worship
How can you make the most of the Sunday gathering of Christians? How can you interrupt people’s anxieties and awaken faith in God? You can’t! So what icani you do?
Garry Deverell loves to worship God, and shares this love with others as a minister and professor of worship.
“God has chosen this for you.” “Really?”
A pastoral care workshop exploring pastoral and theological issues in oft-heard clichés. How appropriate are they for people who are suffering and/or isolated? What alternatives might there be? Come ready to share and discuss!
Andy Calder has been the Senior Chaplain at Epworth Hospital, Richmond since 2003.
Grappling with biblical texts
An opportunity to work on tools for getting a handle on a biblical text, OT or NT, and strategies for applying the text in a sermon or Bible Study. BYO Bible and imagination.
Peter Mallen (PhD, London School of Theology) is passionate about helping people go deeper in engaging the bible.
Meet the Dalton McCaughey Library (DML)
The Chief Librarian, Stephen Connelly, will introduce you to the Library and how to use it. You will be invited to undertake a series of tasks that will enable you to get acquainted with this amazing resource. Note there is a joining fee of $200 pa for borrowing books. Use of books within the library is free of charge.
Ministry Smorgasbord
An invitation to PoD participants & mentors, and anyone interested, to chat with UCA people engaged in a wide variety of ministry styles and locations. An invitation to those in ministry to tell their story to those exploring ministry options.
Co-ordinated by Gwen Ince, Lay Leadership Educator.
Wisdom & Child, the Child in Scripture
Scripture has a wide range of terms for child, children and childhood used literally, rhetorically and metaphorically. Exploring children in Scripture can encourage reflection on our practices with children and families in our faith communities.
Chris & Beth Barnett are the Children & Families Coordinators for the UCA and Baptist Union respectively.
Tools for Youth and Young Adult Ministry
This elective focuses on two approaches to ministry: ‘The 40 Developmental Assets’ and ‘Growing Apostles’. These tools will be explored and explained in order to enable you to use them with one young person or with a group of young people.
Drew Hanna is Youth Ministry Coordinator for VicTas Synod.
‘Care of the Soul’ - Spiritual Nurture for the People of God.
As Jesus’ followers, we are called to live ‘in Christ as Christ lives in us’. This is an invitation to attend to the inner movements of the Holy Spirit forming and leading us in the ways of God’s vision for all creation.
Joan Wright Howie is Spiritual Formation Advisor at the CTM.
