course List

List of Courses

MIN 001	Leading Intercessions
MIN 002	Leading Worship has been withdrawn as a short course and replaced by a Lay Worship Assistants course - click here to see more details
MIN 003	Discipleship
MIN 004	Discovering gifts
MIN 005	Parenting skills
MIN 006	Visiting the sick
MIN 007	Baptism preparation
MIN 008	Marriage preparation
MIN 009	Leading Housegroups
MIN 010	Effective church meetings
MIN 011	Chairing a church meeting
MIN 012	Listening
MIN 013	Treasurers
MIN 014	Lay Pastoral Assistant
MIN 015	PCC secretaries
MIN 016	Churchwardens training/recruitment
MIN 017	Reading in Church
MIN 018	Practising Prayer
MIN 019	The Practicalities of making a visit
MIN 020	Feedback Skills
MIN 021	Developing Holistic Living for Women***
MIN 022	Selection Interviewing
MIN 023	Assertiveness
MIN 024	Emotional Intelligence
MIN 025	Making the most of listening to sermons
MIN 026	How to change music direction
MIN 027	Everyone a minister
MIN 028	Intercessory Prayer
MIN 029	A Welcoming Church
MIN 030	How to write a PCC newsheet or weekly bulletin
MIN 031	Visiting the Bereaved
MIN 032	Knowing me, knowing you, knowing God
MIN 033	Biblical Leadership

MIS 001	Developing missional leadership
MIS 002	Ecumenical partnerships
MIS 003	Working Disciples
MIS 004	Sharing your faith
MIS 005	Racial Justice
MIS 006	Culture and Mission
MIS 007	Healthy Church Audits
MIS 008	Mission Shaped Church
MIS 009	How to be a Fair Trade church ***
MIS 010	Incorporating a global perspective in worship***
MIS 011	Engaging with a world of poverty***
MIS 012	Making poverty history – where now? ***
MIS 013	Why is there so much poverty in Zambia?***
MIS 014	Why Christian Aid?***

SPI 001	The Gift of the Lord’s Prayer
SPI 002	Wilderness Experience – The Gift of the Desert Fathers (and Mothers!)
SPI 003	Journey and Pilgrimage – The Gift of Celtic Christianity
SPI 004	Visions and Contemplations – The Gift of Julian and Francis
SPI 005	Using the Senses – The Gift of the Orthodox Church
SPI 006	Visualising Scripture – The Gift of Ignatius Picturing God
SPI 007	Our Own Prayer Traditions – The Gift of Contemporary Spirituality
SPI 008	Prayer in the everyday
SPI 009	Taize
SPI 010	Issues in the second half of life - The Spirituality of the ageing – how to meet death
SP 011	Spirituality of the Saints

THE 001	About the Gospels and into Mark’s Gospel
THE 002	Jesus the Teacher – About and into Parables
THE 003	Signs of the Kingdom – About and into Miracles
THE 004	Beginnings of the Church About Paul (I Corinthians)
THE 005	Beginnings of Mission - a theological view of Church and Mission
THE 006	Reading the Bible in Community
THE 007	Theology of hymns
THE 008	Doctrine today?
THE 009	What is the Church - The Marks of the Church
THE 010	Models of the Church
THE 011	Architecture – Walls, Worship and Witness
THE 012	Restoring Hope in our Church
THE 013	Church-in-Mission Mission Shaped church
THE 014	Beyond these Walls
THE 015	Anglican Leadership
THE 016	Liberation Theology and the Church
THE 017	Introduction to OT - Interpreting the Old Testament: The Living Bible
THE 018	Reading the story of creation
	Reading the story of early Israel
THE 019	The Histories: The Monarchy
THE 020	Early Prophets: Micah
THE 021	Later Prophets: Jeremiah
THE 022	Poetry and Worship: Psalms
THE 023	Wisdom Literature: Proverbs
THE 024	Introducing Christian Ethic
THE 025	Ethics in the Workplace
THE 026	World Justice
THE 027	Genetics and Other Issues of Medical Ethics
THE 028	Environmental and Ecological Ethics
THE 029	Relationships
THE 030	War and Peace
THE 031	Racial Equality, Asylum and Immigration
THE 032	An Ethical Debate

Some of the above courses are in development and may take up to 3 weeks before being available. The number of sessions per course, are varied.

*** Courses marked like this are available by booking a Diocesan Officer to lead them. Details are found by clicking on the courses title

EXPLORING SPIRITUALITY

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