The good news for ministry with children, young people & families | 24 March 2012

Welcome

An integrated / intergenerational church family where difference is valued.

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“All of us in the Church in positions of leadership – and I say this to myself above all – need to be aware of what we have to learn from the concerns and the faith and the witness and the questions of our young people."

Unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven (Matt 18v2)

TWO WORDS.

BARRIERS.

ESSENTIAL.

NOT-ESSENTIAL.

LIGHTS OF REVELATION

NEEDEST OF THE MARGINALISED

BEARERS OF THE IMAGO DEI

GIFTS FROM THE HAND OF GOD

DEVELOPING BEINGS IN NEED OF INSTRUCTION

BEARERS OF SINFUL NATURE & MORAL ACCOUNTABILITY

Supporting parishes in their mission and ministry to children, young people & families.

• Providing training and resources

• Identifying and sharing good practice

• Running Diocesan events for children, young people & families

• Small grants scheme

Children, Young People & Families Team

Encouraging co-operation and prayer support with networking groups for parish based leaders, volunteers and employed workers.

Exciting opportunities for personal and spiritual development through a programme of residential stays and activity days.

DOES YOUR LOCAL SCHOOL VISIT THE HORSTEAD CENTRE?

The Horstead Centre

The children thank you for ‘a week to remember’ and I know that it really is a week they will not forget. Past pupils often come back to school saying that Horstead was one of their happiest memories at school.

Horstead Centre: prayer space

Horstead Centre: prayer space.

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INVITATION TO REST REFLECTION & PRAYER.

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MESSY MEET UP: Coming soon!

Messy Church Style / All Age Worship.

• Trained volunteer facilitators who can visit your parish/school and demonstrate how to use Godly Play.

Providing training for parish mission & ministry.

www.worshipworkshop.org.uk

www.worshipworkshop.org.uk

justforvicars-yourchurchwedding.org/

After-school clubs / Holiday Clubs

Wednesday 29th June 2011,9.30-3.30Archbishop Sancroft High SchoolHarleston near Diss

Helping Children & Young People Pray

Resource Centres: Diocesan House & Loddon• Resources for your mission & ministry• Template programmes for after-school clubs, holiday clubs• Liturgy & worship resources for all-age/family worship• Puppets, DVD’s, musical instruments

Please tell us what resources you need?

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East Norwich Youth Project has regular contact with over 700 young people each month.

Diocesan Churches working in ecumenical partnerships

Parishes in Poringland & Hellesdon partner with Norwich Youth for Christ to employ part-time youth workers who work alongside parish volunteers to provide a range of mission focussed clubs and discipleship activities for children and young people.

Diocesan Parishes working in ecumenical partnerships

East Norfolk Youth for Christ working in partnership with Diocesan Parishes in East Norfolk

Diocesan Parishes working in ecumenical partnerships

St. Mary the Virgin, Banham.

St. Mary the Virgin, Banham,

St. Mary the Virgin Banham, Integrate Youth for Christ & Right Hand Community Church

St. Mary the Virgin Banham, Integrate Youth for Christ & Right Hand Community Church

St. Mary the Virgin Banham, Integrate Youth for Christ & Right Hand Community Church

• Importance of local Churches working together• Workers with the neccessary skills / gifts• Prayer

St. Mary the Virgin Banham, Integrate Youth for Christ & Right Hand Community Church

You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.

LORD, MAKE US SALTSALT

Stop things

from going

Wrong.

Lord, make us salt

Make our minds and all our senses alert to seeing your strategies for the kingdom.

To choose your paths in salty service: to stand in the way of wrong, to prevent evil where we can see it rearing its head, to protect the weak, the poor, the left our, the pushed aside.

LORD, MAKE US SALTSALT

Help make

good flavours

stongs

Lord, make us salt

Bring out the strong salty flavours of your gospel in our lives, in our conversations, in our decisions, in our caring and our creating.

LORD, MAKE US SALTSALT

Help to healLord, make us salt

May our presence in our communities, our churches, our relationships be an agent of your healing. Heal the brokenness around us, and heal the wounds within us.

HOPE.

FEAR.

Young people will come Young people will come when they feel they are when they feel they are being taken seriously; being taken seriously; when they have the when they have the opportunity to ask opportunity to ask questions and when questions and when they have the chance to they have the chance to develop as people develop as people within the church.within the church.

Across the Diocese

•32 employed children, youth & family workers in the Diocese based in parishes (full or part-time)•Since April 2006 we have obtained 2111 CRB checks for the Diocese. (613 Clergy & 239 Readers)•Since Jan 06, 761 people have attended a Diocese Child Protection Training Session. 

The best gift you can give children is time and conversation.