Modules
Modules are intended to be a launch pad for development as a team. They give you insights, other ways of working and fresh opportunities to make connections between what is being learnt and each particular parish situation.The modules comprise of six sessions, of about two hours each, and follow a pattern which begins with quiet reflection. Each module is intended as an introduction to different aspects of Christian life and ministry. For those who want to go into things more deeply there is a module resource box with recommended reading.
A new team works through the modules with a facilitator, who will hold the process of learning, encourage good patterns of working and relating, and support personal ministerial development.
Overview of Modules:
Getting Started (core module)
This module will enables the members to:
- Begin the process of team formation - build trust and understanding between team members.
- Use a toolkit to help develop team skills.
- Clarify the role of the team in the mission of the local church.
- Explore the developing partnership between the team and existing licensed parish ministers.
- Clarify accountability and establish good communications.
- Identify future needs for team and benefice training.
Living God's Life in the World (core module)
Here are some of the learning outcomes:
- Gain a deeper understanding of the vocation of the local church.
- Have a clearer picture of the life and needs of you local community looked at through 'Kingdom spectacles'.
- Have a growing awareness of what you need to know, what sort of people you need to be and what you need to do if you are to be authentic in your purpose as local church members.
Bible
Here are some of the learning outcomes:
- Begin reflecting on the responsibility of the Local Ministry team in sharing the place and understanding of scripture in the worship and daily life of local communities.
- Transforming connections are made between scripture and our lives using our imaginations to enter the text in Bible study.
- Start exploration of some key biblical themes such as creation, Exodus, prophecy and Kingdom.
Worship
The Worship module will guide you through:
- Exploring the nature of worship.
- Reflecting on the influence that time, place and ritual have on worship.
- Raising awareness of the roots of worship in scripture and our own tradition, being aware of the variety within Christian practice.
- How we respond, with a ministry of worship and prayer to the many people who reach out to touch the Church.
- Rooting occasional offices into the worship of the whole body of Christ.
Telling Our Faith Story (Doctrine)
Here are some of the learning outcomes:
- Developing habits of reviewing, reflecting and measuring practice against value.
- Able to speak about and relate our beliefs, and those of others, to the wider tradition of faith and mission of the church.
- Be able to discuss some of the key current issues relating to church, theology, and world, and to bring a thoughtful informed perspective.
- Begin to reflect theologically and able to make challenging connections between key aspects of faith, experience and dilemmas of daily life.
Pastoral Care
Here are some of the learning outcomes:
- Developed a greater awareness of listening.
- Acknowledged the calling of Jesus Christ to visit, in His name.
- To have taken what has been learned and offer it in a liturgical framework.
- To have looked more closely at our experience of loss.
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