by admin | Oct 9, 2022 | Intergenerational, RESOURCES
I’ve just led a workshop on Interactive Christmas, an annual event that I directed at Rosefield Uniting Church in Adelaide for five years in the 2010s. Here’s an outline with links. Interactive Easter was the first event in a seqeunce, both a community...
by admin | Sep 29, 2022 | Uncategorized
I’ve just discovered the wonderful community development work of the Tamarack Institute at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. Their Five Interconnected Practices for Community Change are spot on for considering a range of work that we are doing both...
by admin | Sep 2, 2022 | Discipleship, RESOURCES
Last Saturday I spent time with a church council, and a perennial question was raised. “Why aren’t more people interested in Bible Study?” We were discussing what it means for a church to see faith formation at the heart of its life together. Is...
by admin | Aug 16, 2022 | PROJECTS, Uncategorized
Across our synod there is rapid population growth on the fringe of greater Melbourne and in regional cities and towns – including Ballarat, Bendigo, Phillip Island, Inverloch, greater Geelong, the surf coast. The rate of growth of new housing estates in our presbytery...
by admin | Aug 5, 2022 | Discipleship, Leadership, RESOURCES
Thomas Groome’s work on Shared Christian Praxis is one of the most influential things in Christian Education since the 1980s (Harper & Row, 1980). The field of practical theology covers a range of approaches to theological reflection, including...
