Education Officer Tatiana Wilson

Education OfficerPenny Burnside

Education Officer Richard

Maudsley

Governors Admissions

Christina Mabin

Children’s Work Adviser Katherine

Lyddon

Adviser to FE/HE Chaplaincies (p/t)

Cate Edmonds Youth Church Adviser

(p/t) James Grier

Youth Work Adviser Martin

Thompson

C.C.Y.P. Council for work with Children and Young People

Director of Education, Youth and Children’s Work Alyson Sheldrake

Chair of C.C.Y.P. Bishop John

CYP Team Objectives (from CYP Team Strategy 2009)

• The development of a culture where children and young people are seen as valued members of the Christian community and are encouraged and empowered to fulfil their potential as active disciples of Christ

CYP Team Objectives (cont…)

• The delivery of well-informed advice and appropriate support, training and encouragement• Greater collaboration between Diocesan Councils and other partners (Ecumenical and Secular)• The ability to respond to fresh opportunities as they arise

How can we support you?

•Support• Training• Advice • Resources

Meeting children and young people on their turf…• ‘Go and make disciples’ • Missio Dei – God’s mission that we’re

invited to be participants in…• God is already at work in our

communities…How do we spot him and join in?

• Listening…

The Next Generation

Partnership in building the kingdom…• Benefits of Collaboration

– Pooling resources/ideas/time/energy– Focusing on natural gathering points– Schools/local learning communities– Mobile provision– Think ‘holistic’…

• Building His Kingdom, not our own empires

Vitally Important

Aim LowerThink Smaller

Give UpGo have a cup of coffee

Reaching out: working together…•Creativity

•Thinking ‘outside the box’•Embracing the gifts God has given the community…

– Sports/knitting/gaming/reading…•Releasing young people into ministry and taking seriously their right to participate in the decision making processes of their churches and the Diocese

Reaching out: 4 key questions…•What?•Where?•Who else?•How?

Reaching out: 4 key questions…1. What…?

•are the key issues facing children, young people and families in your community?

•What can the church do to help?

Reaching out: 4 key questions…2. Where…?

•are children, young people and families in your community?

•How can you meet them ‘on their turf’?

•Creative thinking? Chaplaincy?

Reaching out: 4 key questions…3. Who else…?

•is already working with children, young people and families in your community?

•How can your Mission Community partner in this work?

Reaching out: 4 key questions…4. How…?

•big are your dreams?•What is God calling you to do, and how can we help you achieve that?

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