Learn how to use the Bible in your youth ministry, to find ways to mine its treasures with the young people in your care.
Learn how to use the Bible in your youth ministry, to find ways to mine its treasures with the young people in your care.
Run by staff from The Feast, we will look at ways to empower young people to become confident and resilient in their faith when talking with friends of different faiths and cultures.
We are currently reviewing support and engagement in the Community of Practice. We would love to have your input into this process, so please email markbennett@cofebirmingham.com to comment or participate. Watch this space for more developments!
Connecting with your local school is a space where you will be able to think through your engagement with your local school, both what you do now and what you want to move to in the future.
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. This module comes in two offerings, independent learning and/or a facilitated group session.
This is a space where you can chose to take time to reflect, take stock and create a plan for the future of your children’s, families, and youth work. There are several options open to you tailored to different areas of children’s and youth work.
This module will help you think through everything you will need to set up your own piece of youth work from the beginning. From your vision and aim to funding and teams.
Sharing Stories includes watching a recorded gathered session on Sharing Your Story before moving on to activities which include creating your own social media post and social media plan.
We will look at why it is so important to ‘develop a spiritually-enriching children’s and youth ministry in every parish and church school’, number 4 of our Transforming Church goals, and look at how you apply this to your context.
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.
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.
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.
An Introduction to Project Management is aimed at anyone who is directly and indirectly involved in Church of England projects and wishes to learn and apply basic project management skills to any given piece of work.
This module offers a great opportunity to explore why we choose to invest in young leaders and how we can effectively lead them, equip them release them into their full potential in Christ.
Birmingham is home to a very large and diverse Muslim community. This module will give you a basic understanding of Islam and how we can help young people relate to Muslim friends.
Evangelism amongst Muslim young people can be controversial. Whilst we may want to share our faith it can cause tensions if done insensitively. Using the Christian-Muslim Forum’s ethical guidelines for witness, this module provides a way to negotiate this issue.
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.
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?'. This module comes in two offerings, one which is independent learning, focusing on youth ministry and one which is a facilitated group session focusing on children and youth ministry.
Readers learn in small supportive formation
groups from tutors, teachers and each other. This is an intensive 11-month
initial programme which includes confidence building as a preacher and teacher,
leader of worship and encourager of mission. It features a four-week placement
in another parish, assessed work (written and spoken) and incredible growth and
friendships.
Readers learn in small supportive formation
groups from tutors, teachers and each other. This is an intensive 11-month
initial programme which includes confidence building as a preacher and teacher,
leader of worship and encourager of mission. It features a four-week placement
in another parish, assessed work (written and spoken) and incredible growth and
friendships.