The Centre for Pioneer Learning: Free and rooted- Shaping the future of the Church

Saturday November 6th 2010, 10am-4pm at Ridley Hall, Cambridge. CB3 9HG

How community, leadership and worship shape the future with Dave Male and Adrian Chatfield.

10am      Coffee and registration
10.30am  The shaping of the community including discussion
12.00pm  The shaping of leaders for the future.
1.00pm    Buffet lunch provided.
2.00pm    The shaping of worship
3.15pm    Plenary Q&A session
4.00pm    Finish

Throughout the day there will be times of prayer, silence and reflection

Cost £20 to include lunch. £10 for students.

To book a place please email Dave Male at info@centreforpioneerlearning.org.uk
This event is open to all church leaders, lay and ordained and those training for leadership from across the denominations who are interested in what the future of the church might look like.

www.centreforpioneerlearning.org.uk

The Centre is supported by the Diocese of Ely, Ridley Hall and Westcott House, Cambridge.

Understanding your Grandchildren: A practical seminar for Christian grandparents

Saturday 6th November at St Giles Church, Northampton

A day to encourage Christian grandparents to understand better the world of their grandchildren and how to communicate with them more effectively, both spiritually and in other ways.

The cost is £25 per person; the price includes food for the day and handout of talks by the speakers. Special offer: 2 people for £40.

Please send a cheque made payable to Church Army to:
Laurence Keith
The Sheffield Centre
Wilson Carlile Centre
50 Cavendish Street
Sheffield
S3 7RZ
Tel. 0114 272 7451, Email l.keith@sheffieldcentre.org.uk

Click here for further details.

Have you thought of Workplace Chaplaincy as part of your Christian ministry?
Is God calling you to be a volunteer workplace chaplain?

November 6th and November 27th from 10am to 3pm at either St Albans or Bedford (depending upon numbers and locations of participants) and Haslingfield Methodist Church, near Cambridge.

Chaplaincy to People at Work and Workplace Ministry Herts and Beds are organising two half days in November 2010 delivering 5 training modules for volunteer workplace chaplains on “Exploring Faith, Work and Economic Life”. Issues such as “Towards a Theology of Work, Christians at Work and Prosperity with a Purpose” are among some of the topics that will be explored in depth.

The course is open to clergy and laity and references from churches will be expected.

Course participants will also be given the opportunity to visit “live” chaplaincy workplaces and those who continue with a Chaplaincy will be offered Commissioning Services in the areas covered by both Workplace Ministry Teams.

The course will also be suitable for those working as chaplains who have not yet received formal training or for those who would like a refresher course.

Visits to workplaces will be by mutual arrangement with the Chaplains and Workplaces concerned.

For further details and to apply for a place on the course, which will be limited, contact: admin@workplacechaplaincy.org.uk or phone 01223 276657

Download flyer with details of the course.

Pilgrims to the Manger

A BRF Quiet Day with Naomi Starkey

Bishop Woodford House, Ely, Cambridgeshire

Wednesday 17 November 2010, 9:45am – 4:00pm, £25.00 (including lunch)

This is an invitation to spend time reflecting on the events of the Christmas story, events which we know should fill us with joy, but which may feel so familiar that all the wonder has worn away.  As we make our own pilgrimage to the manger, we can not only seek to learn more of God, but also to allow ourselves to be challenged afresh by the perspectives of his kingdom.

Naomi Starkey is a commissioning editor at BRF and also editor of New Daylight.  She has written Good Enough Mother (2009) and Pilgrims to the Manger (2010)for BRF.  She is married to Mike, a vicar, and they have three children, who are aged between eight and twenty-one.

To book, simply contact us by post, or telephone us on 01865 3197019. You can also order online at our website www.quietspaces.org.uk where you will find our complete list of Quiet Days for 2010. Please send payment in with your booking and provide full names of all who are attending. If you wish to receive a receipt, please enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope.

Quiet Days, BRF, 15 The Chambers, Vineyard, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 3FE

Learning from St Benedict - study groups over two years

Over the next two years Alan Hargrave will be leading a series of studies focusing on how to use the Rule of Benedict to live together well today. These will be based on a book by Macrina Wiederkehr called: 'Seven Sacred Pauses' (available from Amazon or you can order it through your local bookshops). The Benedictine Sisters of Turvey Abbey have kindly produced a study guide to this book.

The idea is to take two or three months for each chapter in order not just to read the book, but to practice living it in our daily lives. We will then meet together to share our experiences. We will be able to share together between meetings on a 'blog', open only to those doing the course.

The dates for the next few meetings (all Saturdays) will be:

• 31st October 2009
• 20th February 2010
• 19th June 2010 (Etheldreda Day)
• 15th August 2010
• 30th October 2010

We will meet at Powcher's Hall in Ely, beginning at 1pm with a 'Bring and Share' lunch and, following discussion and prayer, ending by 3.30pm.

If you would like to take part, please send Alan Hargrave a cheque for £5, payable to 'Ely Cathedral' andYou will be sent a copy of the study guide. You will also need to buy your own copy of 'Seven Sacred Pauses', as well as a copy of Benedict's Rule.

Further details from Alan Hargrave, Powcher's Hall, The College, Ely, CB7 4DL.

Pilgrimage to the Holy Land with Canon Stephen Earl

Thursday 17th - Saturday 26th February, 2011
(overlapping Spring half term week)

Discover the thrill of the Bible coming to life and follow in the steps of the Patriarchs, the Prophets, of Jesus and his disciples, and of countless Christian pilgrims over the ages!

Visit the land of the “living stones” today, and meet those who, despite hardships, fan the flame of the Christian faith in the land of Christ’s birth.

Meet those of the other Abrahamic faiths in a land sacred to Christians, Jews and Moslems.

This will be a truly memorable and exciting pilgrimage visiting Biblical and other ancient sites of antiquity, meeting those who inhabit a remarkable land of stunning and varied beauty: “the land of milk and honey”

Bask in, and marvel at

• the lush green slopes of Galilee
• the rugged hills around “Jerusalem - the golden”
• the barren, sun-baked desert of Judea
• the fertile “bread-basket” of the Jezreel Valley
• the awesome rift valley, Masada & the Dead Sea, 1300ft below sea level

Special Price of £1370 includes almost everything

To facilitate teachers and students who may wish to participate, this Pilgrimage overlaps Spring half-term which is 21st-26th February 2011.

Download flyer

Please register your interest with as soon as possible with Canon Stephen Earl, 01638 741262 searl@toucansurf.com

Bookings accepted on “first-come” basis.