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Training

Dr. Paul Kybird is the TDO for the London District. He is responsible for a programme of training events at District level and for responding to requests for training from Circuits and churches.

Training events cover areas such as Stewards, Pastoral Care, work with Children and Young People and Worship. A list of training events for the coming year that are open to all members of the District will be available here shortly

The Circuit Stewards Training Pack will be available here shortly.

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Working With Adults: An important aspect of training work is to help members of the District to develop their skills as trainers for work in their local Circuits and churches. Currently the ‘Working With Adults’ course offers that opportunity. It is based at the Queens Foundation in Birmingham and run jointly by the London District with the Queens Foundation, the Birmingham and Wolverhampton, and Shrewsbury Districts, and the Anglican Diocese of Birmingham. The course for 2007/8 is already underway. It is hoped that the course will be available again for 2008/9.

The development part of Paul’s work focuses on the life and leadership of the Circuits in the District, the ways in which the Circuits are organizing and equipping themselves to respond to the challenges of the global city and its cultures, and on the emergence of new local expressions of church life and exploration of faith issues.

For information about the District Circuit Review Handbook click here

Birkbeck College: short courses in theology and religious studies for 2008/9.  These 11-week courses can be taken as stand-alone units, but can also be taken towards the award of a Certificate in Higher Education. The courses are open access – anyone can apply to join them – and are useful both for people wanting to develop an interest in theology and religious studies, as well as for people wanting to use these courses as a stepping stone to further academic study. Our courses this year include a good range, from biblical studies and Christian theology, to studying faith in relation to contemporary society, politics and the arts.
More details about these courses are available at:
www.bbk.ac.uk/study/ce2008/religiousstudies/awards/UEHRSTDS.html

Birkbeck college has also just set up a Postgraduate Certificate in Religion and Culture which will have its first in-take in autumn 2008, and will then run as a full Masters programme from autumn 2009 (further details at www.bbk.ac.uk/study/pg/religiousstudies/TMMRECUL.html). The PG Cert might be particularly appropriate as a short-course for Methodist ministers looking for some kind of study framework for a sabbatical.

There is a wide range of resources for Circuit and church reviews. For more information contact Paul.

For future training events click here

This page was last updated on 11 May 2008