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Nourishing Roots - with Ruth Perrin, 31st Jan 2023, 10:00-16:00
Location: St Antony's Priory 74 Claypath Durham, DH1 1QT
Date: 31st Jan 2023, 10:00 - 16:00
Register your place HERE.
A day of reflection and spiritual refreshment for Free Church chaplains within the quiet and peaceful surrounds of St Antony's Priory, Durham. This day is part of our tri-annual 'Nourishing Roots' sessions where we seek to help refresh our spirits and have a time of retreat away from our busy ministries.
Our reflections will be led by Dr Ruth Perrin, an experienced minister, trainer, researcher and mentor; she has been exploring and encouraging faith development for two decades and is passionate about helping people to draw close to Jesus and explore their part in his kingdom plans.
A buffet lunch will be provided - please advise us of any dietary requirements in advance.
The day is free of charge, but there are only 15 spaces available due to the size of the meeting room. We will initially have tickets available for six prison chaplains, six hospital chaplains, and three education chaplains. Tickets may be made more widely available in weeks to come.
The Welcome Directory Connections Zoom, 28th Nov, 7:30pm
An hour to encourage and resource faith communities who are committed to welcoming prison leavers.
28th Nov 2022, 7:30pm to 9:00pm
The Welcome Directory is a multi-faith charity that has a simple yet powerful vision: to help faith communities become places where people who leave prison find acceptance. A place to belong that not only nurtures faith but also offers appropriate practical support.
Join us for our quarterly Connections Zoom to be encouraged and resourced in this work.
In this session you will:
Hear the first-hand story of a prison leaver who has been helped by a faith community.
Gain an awareness of how the organisations Circles UK and Daylight Ministries support people who are in and have left prison, and how you can partner with them in your own work with prion-leavers.
Have opportunity to share stories, insights and ask questions about working with prison levers.
Register your place HERE.
"Oh Little Town of Bethlehem" - Palestinian Christians, Reality, Challenges and Prospects, Webinar, Dec 7, 2022, 15:00
“Oh little town of Bethlehem” – Palestinian Christians, Reality, Challenges and Prospects by Revd Dr Munther Isaac
Webinar on Wednesday 7th December 3pm UK time
Register your place HERE.
The world turns to Bethlehem during Christmas, but they have a fairytale image of the little town. However, this is a real community with real challenges. This webinar gives an insight into the reality and challenges of Palestinians and Palestinian Christians in the Holy Land.
Revd Dr Munther Isaac is a Palestinian Christian pastor and theologian. He now pastors the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church in Bethlehem. He is also the academic dean of Bethlehem Bible College, and is the director of the highly acclaimed and influential Christ at the Checkpoint conferences.
Balfour Project flyer is available to download HERE.
Islamophobia: The Causes, The Cures and The Church, Webinar, 16th Nov 2022, 19:30
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What is Islamophobia? Does a definition matter? How do we prevent it?
Join us for a webinar with prominent activists and organisers in the Scottish Muslim community to better understand:
1. How Islamophobia is experienced, and impacts individuals and society
2. How this definition helps Muslims name their experience and non-Muslims to recognise the problem.
3 . What might help prevent and ultimately cure Islamophobia
4 . How the Church and its members might play a part in this cure
This webinar has been organised to coincide with the second annual Islamophobia Awareness Month and Scottish Interfaith Week. These occasions represent a good opportunity for us as a Church to collectively reflect on the harm caused by Islamophobia, listen to those affected and find out what we can do. Attendees will also have the chance to ask questions anonymously or directly.
Once we understand it, we can help to tackle it.
Once we listen to the impact, it is harder to dismiss.
Once we learn about the power of allyship we can focus our energies and our compassion on doing something that makes a difference.
Speakers' bios will be released to those registering and once they're finalised.
Register your place HERE.
A Celebration of Chaplaincy, online event, 8th November, 7:30 - 8:30 pm
A Celebration of Chaplaincy with the President and Vice-President of the Methodist Conference
Affirming the great small things of chaplaincy through prayer, music and conversation
Register HERE before 31st October to receive your prayer pack for the event.
If you love chaplaincy then come and join us as we celebrate together. We’ll be hearing the stories of chaplains from many different sectors. There will be a chance to catch up with chaplains far and wide before being reaffirmed in this vital ministry and prayed for by the President and Vice President of the Methodist Conference.
The event will be taking place online. If you know of other chaplains local to you why not make this a shared experience by meeting together and joining the session as a group?
We would also like to send you a small gift as part of this event if you sign up before the 31st October and are happy to provide a postal address. You are still welcome to sign up after this date, although there will not be time to post anything to you.
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