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bath & wells: Changing lives
Changing Lives Toolkit
Resources to help think through the implications of Local Ministry Groups
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This toolkit contains resources to help you prepare for the formation of Local Ministry Groups and Teams.
Browse around and find information, stories, good practice, prayer, and other people's views on how our churches can change to meet the challenge of changing communities. For training opportunities, go to School of Formation |
Changing Lives... for Good is a series of six 20-minute programmes on DVD in which Bishop Peter Price visits places where Changing Lives is taking root.
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| These pages give you access to official reports and individual's ideas on how Changing Lives, Changing Churches for Changing Communities can be worked out in practice. |
| Good practice, ideas and stories |
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| One man's view |
A lay church member's highly personal look at how his church will change over the next seven years. |
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| Mission within our culture - through Local Ministry Groups |
Canon Roger Medley's look at how our changing society should make us see mission in new ways, and how a Local Ministry Team might tackle things |
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| Local Ministry Groups - learning from Zambia |
Our Companion Link church in Zambia covers an area many times the size of England with just 60 priests! Lay ministry is a reality there - how can we learn from them? |
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| Getting to grips with Local Ministry Groups |
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| Models of Ministry |
Comprehensive look fom the Council for Ministry at different forms of ministry and how a Local Ministry Group might develop them |
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| What might a Local Ministry Group look like? |
Three ways of seeing your own local ministry group. Which one fits you best? |
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| 'Thinking Different' about ministry in our communities |
Discussion-starter with questions for PCCs as they look at the Changing Lives documents. |
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| Local Ministry Groups and your PCC - Making a start |
Learning module for PCC's (1¼ hr session) looking at your own community and using key statements from the green paper |
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(pdf 124 KB)
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| Children and Young people in school or church |
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| Protocol for church and school partnerships |
Advice and best practice as schools and parishes work together across traditional boundaries |
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| Working Together |
Mike Tedstone's collection of good practice examples and stories of churches and schools working together |
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| Children and Young people in a Local Ministry Group |
How work with schools, children and young people can be developed in a Ministry Group setting. |
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Foundation documents
Here you'll find materials that explain the background to Changing Lives |
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| The Changing Lives Prayer and Act of Commitment |
Useful for an individual, PCC or other group |
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| Changing Lives bulletin |
12 page magazine giving a summary of the full 2004 report with some pointers from Bishops Peter and Andrew |
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| Changing Lives: Changing Churches for Changing Communities |
The full text of the 2004 'green paper' |
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(pdf 310KB)
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| What kind of church? |
First part of Bishop Peter's 2004 address to clergy |
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| What models of ministry? |
Second part of Bishop Peter's 2004 address to clergy |
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