MAKING DISCIPLES
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Newsletter from the Safeguarding Childrens Advisor
October 2011
| Parish Safeguarding Advisor / Incumbent |
Saints & Stars - The Oxford Diocese newsletter for Children's Ministry
October 2011 | Sunday School Teachers /
Workers with Children
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Youthwork Update - Supporting your ministry with young people
October 2011
| Youth Leaders |
Continuing Ministerial Development Programme
October to December 2011
Please see below details of the next Continuing Ministerial Development (CMD)training events.
ASSOCIATE CLERGY DAY agenda and booking form.
CMD TRAINING DAYS
'Ministry at Work' is an event to look at issues around our employment and mission. Open to lay people and clergy this day is part of the Continuing Ministerial Development programme.
'Creative Repair' is a workshop focusing on the way in which regular engagement with the creative arts can help to prevent clergy burnout. It will include both theory and experience and offer an opportunity for theological reflection.
For further information these events or to book a place on either of these courses, please contact Carolyn Main on 01865 208257 or e-mail
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A note from Angela Tilby - Continuing Ministerial Development.
I joined the department of Mission on September 5th 2011 and since then have attended a consultation on leadership and a variety of training events, and have begun a series of conversations about current and future CMD provision in the diocese. The leadership consultation showed that there was widespread appreciation for the Developing Servant Leaders Programme alongside an awareness that more could have been offered to assist ministers in their context. While the review of CMD continues and the process of restructuring the current provision begins it has been decided to offer the DSL programme in 2012/2013 for those who have not had the opportunity to participate in it.
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The London Fellows Programme
The Fellows Programme is a part-time year long discipleship & mentoring programme that focuses on spiritual and theological growth, and discipleship of the heart and mind. It is created by the C.S. Lewis Institute in the USA and delivered by Latimer Minster in the UK.
The programme is devoted to developing disciples who can articulate, defend and live faith in Christ in public and personal life, and allows individuals to intensely explore life changing truths from key biblical themes in discipleship, spirituality, apologetics and worldview whilst staying in full-time employment. Please see further details ofThe London Fellows Programme
and theBooking Form
| Incumbent / LLMs / General Display |
TheSpiritual Direction Network Newsletter, October 2011, contains details of forthcoming SpiDir Network Days
| Incumbent |
Learning for Discipleship and Ministry is a rolling programme of courses that are open to all learners of any denomination. It educates for lay discipleship, Licensed Lay Ministry, Local Ministry ordinands and other Authorised Ministries.
| General Display, LLMs |
MISSION THROUGH MINISTRY
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A list ofOrdination Dates for your 2012 diary. Further details of services, retreats and travel will be available nearer the time.
| Incumbent |
| MISSION IN THE WORLD | |
Earthing Faith Network
Over the past two years the diocese has hosted the Earthing Faith website to provide a space for churches and individuals to share ideas and experiences around the environment. We have nbow relaunched it as a network, which will replace the existing Oxford Diocese Environment Group.
The new Earthing Faith network will enable members to share ideas, case studies and resources, as well as connect with one another using Twitter and Facebook. The network will also meet physically to share and reflect on environmental issues, explore spiritual practices and resources and hear from guest speakers and environmental projects from across the diocese and beyond.
Join the network and stay up to date with news, resources and events via email - visit
Latest news from the network
- Feed-in Tariffs Review -http://t.co/EiiWLHbP
- Your church and Woodfuel (Biomass) -http://t.co/7qL3ZviR
- Join us for the first physical gathering of the network on Thursday, 2nd February 2012 -http://www.earthingfaith.org/gatherings/.
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'Caution? Older People!' is major conference involving the four dioceses of Coventry, Gloucester, Oxford and Worcester.Those people who live and/or worship in rural settings will recognise that their congregations can be made up predominantly of older people, often but not primarily because that reflects the changing make up of the local population. This day conference contains both celebration and challenge - it will be especially relevent to those in multi-parish benefices and there will be plenty of interest to both clergy and non-clergy.
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You are welcome to the Diocese of Oxford's Rural Team's annual Plough Wednesday Day on rural and agricultural issues to be held on Wednesday 11th January 2012
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Cut the energy bills of your church and save money
The Diocese of Oxford and the national CofE Shrinking the Footprint campaign are offering churches in the diocese the opportunity to use, for free, energy monitoring software that will help track and reduce their energy use.
The scheme is partnering with sMeasure, an easy-to-use web-based energy managing tool developed by the University of Oxford, that has been designed specifically for organisations like the church. We are looking for 100 church buildings from the Diocese of Oxford to be part of this pilot scheme in 2012, before it is launched nationally in 2013. Participation in the pilot means you will give your church free access to the sMeasure tool and access to support and advice. It is being offered on a first come first served basis. To find out more and join the pilot scheme email:
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or call the diocesan Environment Officer (Matt Freer), on 01865 208745 and leave your contact details (including an email address).
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The Urban Priority Action Group (UPAG) of the Diocesan Board for Mission would like to extend a warm welcome to you to attend a Morning Forum on Urban Mission and Ministry with the theme'Current Challenges to Civil Society and Possibilities for the Churches'with guest speaker Rev Paul Hackwood, Chair of the Church Urban Fund.
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