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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
Approaches to Dialogue in Colleges is a free online training event on 18 May 1.30pm.
Award-winning Birmingham-based charity The Feast have huge experience in facilitating grass-roots youth work which brings teenagers together across different faiths and cultures to build friendships, explore faith and change lives. The Feast’s Guidelines for Dialogue are now used in hundreds of schools, youth work and community settings across the country.
This online workshop jointly run by The Feast and FE Chaplaincy Ambassador Nigel Roberts introduces approaches to dialogue in college life, and is suitable for any staff keen to know how to do this better – including student services, tutors and chaplains.
This event is free of charge. To sign up, please contact Nigel Roberts on fechaplaincy[at]saltleytrust.org.uk.
FE Sunday is back on 14 May 2023 – a great opportunity to pray for your local college, its staff and students, and to consider how you could serve your local college better. More details to follow, including a brand new, bespoke FE Sunday website, with new resources, materials and topis for 2023.
Watch this space!
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.
Reflecting on Chaplaincy is a new series of short videos started by FE Chaplaincy Ambassador Nigel Roberts, to encourage and inspire those engaged in chaplaincy in FE. You can find the full playlist on WMCFEC’s YouTube channel.
Here’s a quick reminder that FE Sunday is coming up fast on 15 May 2022! Over the next couple of weeks we’ll be releasing resources to help you pray and focus your church service on your local college. Watch our dedicated FE Sunday page for more.
FE Sunday – being held for the first time ever on Sunday 15 May 2022 – is an opportunity to pray for your local college and for the Further Education sector, and to consider how your church could love and serve your local college. More details and resources will become available soon. Meanwhile, watch our region’s FE Chaplaincy Ambassador Nigel Roberts introducing FE Sunday, here or above.