Are you dealing with tricky issues in your church or community? Would you like to explore some simple biblical principles about how to discuss difficult things well? We live at a time when people are divided more than ever before. The world, society, and the church can feel complex and divided. Do you want to be involved in being part of bringing reconciliation?

Difference is a five-session course that equips you to explore differences in a way that can bring genuine and healing change in everyday encounters.

Estimated Time: 2.5hrs | Delivery Mode: Independent Learning

This course aims to explore the everyday choices we make based on our perceptions, attitudes, and stereotypes. Unconscious biases (e.g. based on gender, race, ability, appearance, mannerisms and other characteristics) can lead to preferential treatment of some people and lowered expectations of others. Awareness of our thoughts and actions can enable us to support greater fairness in a diverse society and a more generous, collaborative, and inspirational church.

Estimated Time: 3hrs | Delivery Mode: Independent Learning

In this module, we will think theologically about your children's and youth work, using questions such as 'Where is God at work here?' and 'What's next for us and our ministry?' You can work through this module independently or in a group setting, whereby you address the resources reflectively together. 

Estimated Time: 2hrs | Delivery Mode: Independent Learning

A group of five youth and children's workers talking about the highs and lows, the pit falls and real wins of youth and children's work with their combined skills across schools, sports, church and community-based work and ministry.

Estimated Time: 2hrs | Delivery Mode: Independent Learning

This module helps you look at your children's and youth programs with fresh eyes, thinking about how to strategically plan, helping you think about your aims and objectives for the year, showing you how and where to look for good resources. 

Estimated Time: 2hrs | Delivery Mode: Independent Learning

A chance to hear from parents who are living out faith at Home, with its highs and lows and how their insights can help you shape the support and ministry you do in your church context around faith at home.

The Bridge is designed to prepare those about to train as Readers to grow in confidence in handling the Bible. As a group of tutors and tutees, we explore the Hebrew scriptures (Old Testament) and the New Testament writings with themes which arc through the whole of the Bible. It is our hope that this course fans into flame a love for the study of the Bible and introduces resources to aid that study. We choose from six overarching themes: The Names of God; Creation and New Creation; Covenant and New Covenant; Exile and Return; Care of Orphan, Widow and Alien; Temple and Christ.

This space is for the cohort who joined in October 2022.

This space is for the cohort who joined in October 2021.