WMCFEC
The Opportunity and Challenge of Chaplaincy – an online opportunity for young Christians to find out more about opportunities to become involved in/train for chaplaincy.
Contributors include WM FE Chaplaincy Ambassador Nigel Roberts – more details on the Churches Together in England website here. (Photo: CTE)
Festive have produced a new podcast – Beautiful Feet – specially for Christian sixth form/college students. Have a listen here!
We’re really excited to announce a networking event for FE and Sixth Form College chaplains on Wednesday 26th February 2025!
Open to anyone offering chaplaincy or chaplaincy-style support to a FE or Sixth Form College in the wider West Midlands region, whether you’re a new chaplain or more experienced, full time in your college or an occasional visitor.
More details to follow shortly. Contact Nigel Roberts to register your interest.
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WMCFEC’s annual report for 2023-24 is now available to read! Read more about our work with the region’s FE Chaplaincy Ambassador, Further Education Sunday, resources to access, and future plans. Click to download.
Further Education Sunday is back – on 12th May 2024. This year we’re hugely excited to announce that FE Sunday will be the focus for the Church of England’s weekly online service. But whatever your denomination, you can take part using the resources, materials and videos available on our FE Sunday page and at the dedicated FE Sunday website.
If you work in chaplaincy, you’ll be interested to know of a new podcast exploring all things chaplaincy, courtesy of the Free Churches Group – click here for the first episode!
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Further Education Sunday 2023 is coming – on 14 May!
FE Sunday is a great time to pray for your local college and consider how to love and serve it better. Visit our brand new website fe-sunday.uk, developed in partnership with Festive, for videos, downloadable prayer resources and ideas for worship and action. You can also keep up to date on Twitter and tweet what you’re doing for FE Sunday, using the hashtag #FESunday2023
Interested in starting a conversation about the place of religion/belief/worldview in the contemporary world? This collection of short films funded by Culham St Gabriel’s Trust, and featuring public figures from a variety of different faiths/beliefs, may be of interest.
Chaplains of any denomination are welcome to join in this online celebration of chaplaincy hosted by the Methodist Church’s current President and V-P, on Tuesday 8 November, 7.30-8.30pm. You don’t need to be a Methodist to take part, although the event will have a Methodist flavour to it! For more details and booking, see this Eventbrite page.
Come and hear about how the Your Voice programme could be used in your college, in a webinar organised with College chaplains and staff in mind.
When youth worker and former FE College chaplain Barry Mason asked local high schools in the Kidderminster Bewdley area how he might support their students, staff asked him how he might grow young people’s confidence in speaking in public and articulating their opinions confidently.
In response, Barry developed Your Voice – a series of debates on a variety of hot contemporary topics, drawing on the material in the youth edition of the Good News Bible, but open to allow young people to form and express their own opinions. Over the past couple of years Barry has been trialling Your Voice with various groups of students, including at Worcester Sixth Form College alongside college chaplain Jo Oates.
On 8 July 10am-11.30am you can find out more about using Your Voice in your college in a webinar featuring Barry Mason and FE Chaplaincy Ambassador Nigel Roberts. For more details and to sign up, please contact fechaplaincy[at]saltleytrust.org.uk.