The Churches Together in
Berkshire
2009 Forum
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Forums. Most people are for 'em. If they have good speakers, topics, and a chance for everyone to have a say. Well, this one certainly does.
Our Forum is an uplifting event not to miss out on if you're in any way involved in a church or other community in Berkshire. (Or elsewhere, for matter.) Book now for a great soul-stirring day full of update and debate.
There's also a Big Sing!
So come and feed the mind. (Though lunch is
provided). Get the good gossip as you chat over the garden fence with people
from parishes from all across Berkshire). Share and compare notes,
concerns, advice, and tips.
Above all, get inside the heads of some super
speakers. Such as?
See below for details.
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Tel 0118 9261062
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10.15am 10.30am
10.35am This will be followed by a period of questions and discussion.
11.30am 12.30pm 1.20pm 1.50pm 2.50pm 3.00pm
3.20pm 3.35pm 3.45pm
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Which Workshops to attend?
With the exception of the Big Sing workshop (available only in the afternoon) all workshops will be offered twice - once before lunch and once after.
Each
participant should list in order of preference four workshop choices.
As far as possible we will try to allocate you to your first two choices.
WORKSHOP 1 Dr Hopkins - author, researcher, mediator and ex secondary teacher - is founding Director of Transforming Conflict, National Centre for Restorative Justice in Youth Settings, an organisation that, since 1994, has been offering training, consultancy and resources to educational and residential settings all over the UK and internationally. The workshop will be interactive, lively and thought provoking; participants will experience Circle Process, as well as discussing the benefits and challenges of working restoratively in schools and residential settings.
WORKSHOP 2 Hugh has many interests, including CAFOD, Fair Trade, and Stand Up Against Poverty. The workshop will share his very visual experience of Holy Week in the city of Seville and a small town, and offer opportunities for reflection and discussion.
WORKSHOP 3 Janice is Secretary of Global Mission Network of Churches Together in Britain and Ireland. In these times when churches are constantly facing the need to develop and change, this workshop will address the issue of how change happens - and particularly the value of an informed outsider in such processes.
WORKSHOP 4 Bede is currently Ecumenical Officer for Oxfordshire. He is a Reader in the Orthodox Church and worships in the Church of the Holy Trinity and the Annunciation in Oxford. The workshop will look at spirituality in the Orthodox Church from a lay aspect. It will consider daily life, worship and reading and particularly look at the use of icons in worship and the reading of scripture.
WORKSHOP 5 Richard is Founder and Chairman of “Affirming Liberalism” and has a doctorate in Christian Ministry. His previous posts included Head of Religious Studies and Senior Chaplain at Wellington College, Crowthorne, Chaplain to Wycombe Abbey School in High Wycombe, Chaplain in the Royal Army Chaplains’ Department, and Parish Priest in London. Following the Healthy Church Handbook model for church growth, this seminar will explain how this proven and simple model for church health – and hence growth – can be adapted to benefit any congregation (whether large, medium or small), and of any churchmanship, (whether Liberal, Catholic or Evangelical).
WORKSHOP 6 John has been appointed by the Department of Social Responsibility, Diocese of Guildford, to work as a honorary member of staff with refugees and asylum seekers. He is a retired Anglican priest. The workshop will include input from two Iranian brothers who escaped after torture from Iran; one now a Senior Research Fellow of the University of Surrey; the other after 5 years still awaiting resolution of his asylum application by the Home Office. They will recount their experiences and reflect on them with members of the group.
WORKSHOP 7
led by The Right Reverend Dr Lee
Rayfield Before ordination Dr Rayfield taught and researched as an immunologist in London University Medical Schools. He has been very involved in recent years in thinking through theological and ethical responses to issues related to advances in medicine, especially genetics and embryology. Medical ethics is a very broad topic so Dr Rayfield will be focussing on issues associated with assisted-reproduction. There will be some choice in what we cover but potential areas include pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, Saviour siblings and the Church’s engagement with controversial technologies. It will be more seminar style than workshop.
WORKSHOP 8
led by The Reverend Jonathan
Salmon Prior to ordination Jonathan trained as a social anthropologist and worked in international development, mainly for the UK Government. His work places were in various African countries and India and he spent 8½ years living and working in Zimbabwe, Uganda and Tanzania. The workshop will look at various aspects of the current strife in Zimbabwe and will include input and interaction.
WORKSHOP 9 Gill Swain is a freelance journalist, writing features for national newspapers and magazines and a ghost writer of autobiographies. She also does human rights work and in 2007 spent three months in the West Bank working for the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel. The workshop will include a talk, illustrated with pictures about her time in the West Bank which describes life there under the Israeli military occupation and therefore gives the wider context behind recent events. There will also be opportunity for questions and discussions.
WORKSHOP 10 led by Reverend Richard Holroyd Richard has interests in art and music and has facilitated a number of Arts Projects with the people of St Luke’s Maidenhead. “What is Man?” is an exploration of issues of disposability, the fragility of our condition, and the mountains of rubbish we generate. The workshop will include the opportunity to create a “rubbish” art work from re-cyclable materials.
WORKSHOP 11
BIG SING In addition to the lunchtime Big Sing open to everyone, this workshop - only in the afternoon. Alison is a member of the Iona Community and was resource worker with the Wild Goose Resource Group - a project of the Iona Community which enables and equips congregations in shaping new and relevant worship and liturgy. The Big Sing workshop will focus on the Forum themes – Justice, Mercy and Humility.
WORKSHOP 12 The workshop focus will be on helping people to see how they may acquire vision to live at peace with humanity and with nature. Broither Samuel is the visionary behind the Hilfield Project – a project for peace, the environment and reconciliation.
This page updated by Hugh Gibbons on
Thursday February 26, 2009
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