Training and Encouragement for Shared MinistryEquipping God’s People is a range of courses intended to encourage and enable lay people to develop their gifts and skills and to take a more full role in the ministry of the local parish, benefice or deanery.
Courses can be arranged in your locality by arrangment with a member of the NMD team.
See below for the
Key Values of the programme.
The following courses are planned as listed below. Please contact:
The Revd Phil White
email:
phil_07@btinternet.com or
Mae Tang, NMD Team Administrator,
Diocesan House, Aviator Court, Clifton Moor, York YO30 4WJ
01904 699504
email:
mae.tang@yorkdiocese.orgLearning To ListenSt John's Filey. Tuesday evenings 7.00 - 9.30 January 29th, February 12th, 19th, 26th 2008. For bookings contact: The Revds Phil White or Mary Williams (Vicar of Filey), or Mae Tang.
Learning To Lead in Public WorshipSt Michael's Cherry Burton. Thursday evenings 7.00 - 9.30 February 14th, 21st, 28th, and March 6th 2008. For bookings contact The Revds Angela Bailey (Rural Dean of Beverley) or Phil White.
The full family of courses are as followsPastoral Care: in partnership with the Acorn Christian Foundation.
'Learning to Listen', 'Listening in Pastoral Care- Time to Listen', 'Called to Listen', and 'Listening and Prayer Ministry' are the courses in this group.
'Just Listen' is an Acorn dvd/video which introduces 'active reflective listening', and is useful prior to or in preparation for Learning To Listen. It can be obtained from their website.
More information about the Acorn Christian Foundation can be found at
www.acornchristian.org.
Learning To Be a Spiritual CompanionFurther details of this course written by members of the NMD team can be obtained from:
The Revds Ann Coleman, email:
annvc@tiscali.co.uk and Elaine Bielby email:
ebielby@ebielby.karoo.co.ukLearning To Share Our Faith:a course to give confidence in sharing faith sensitively in partnership with Wilson Carlile College
For more information please contact:
The Revd David Coleman
email: frdavid.coleman@tiscali.co.uk
Learning To Lead in Public Worship:
a course to help those who read lessons or lead prayers in worship in partnership with Wilson Carlile College and the Diocesan Worship and Music group.
For more information please contact:
The Revd Phil White
email: phil_07@btinternet.com
'Learning To Work with Children & Youth People' is a new course being constructed in partnership with the Diocesan Children & Youth Advisors. It is due to be piloted from January 2008. Contact The Revd Ashley Wilson, email: ashley@dunelm.org.uk for details.
