Love for the Future - Diocesan Course for 2010

What can we find within ourselves to develop family and community life, respond to the environmental crises and achieve a sustainable world? We need respect, compassion, justice, simplicity, repentance and hope.

Love For The Future, our course for Lent 2010, explores these six themes and the ways we can allow God to develop these in us, drawing on insights from the church community, including the Bishops. The course and supporting study material will tackle many of the issues that we face as a society and as a planet, with particular emphasis on responding to the ecological crisis.

UPDATE Resource sheets now available for download

Standard size PDFs (for printing as an A5 leaflet)

Large Size PDFs (18 point version for printing on 5 to 6 sheets of A4)

Love for the Future promotional clip

Course material

The course consists of six short films on DVD for housegroups, services or individual study plus group discussion materials, bible study notes and pointers to other resources.

But these are not just more films about climate change. The course explores the way that different kinds of spirituality can help generate the approaches we need in order to face and influence the future. Take a few moments to view our short promotional video.

”This is important because we as the church have to take our place in the reality of how we find it today and how we expect to be over the next 30 years. Either we can take a back seat in all of this or we can be part of that which is a transforming activity. An activity that is in obedience to the God who came into the world because he loved it.” Bishop Peter, Bath & Wells

“One of the very simple stories that Jesus tells is the story of the man who built his house upon the rock and the man who built his house on the sand. We all understand at least at one level, but what does it really mean? As I seek to live as a 21st century Christian, living in a very complicated world, what does it mean for me to build my life on the solid rock of Christ? Love for the Future is a course that we are seeking to promote for home groups and church groups to use next Lent. It explores some very important themes for all of us, and our hope is that as we engage with the issues, not only will we be better equipped to serve Christ in his world, but we also discover more of what it means to build our lives on his rock. I hope you really enjoy it.” Venerable Andy Pigott, Chair, Mission Forum

For more information or to place your order for the course please email Love for the Future.