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New Prayer Resource for FE/Sixth Form – could you help?

Our friend Lahna Pottle, 16-19s specialist at SchoolsworkUK (part of Youthscape), is looking for student volunteers to help create a new prayer resource.  If you know someone who can help, read on!  Lahna writes:

“Hello everyone! I am currently in the midst of making an exciting new resource for Sixth Form and FE Colleges. The resource is based on nearly a years worth of research into 16-19 year olds engagement with faith, God and religion. One of the key findings from this research is ALL of the young people interviewed; christian/muslim/non-faith, have prayed at some point. So we are starting to create an explorative exhibition resource on prayer, that will allow students to explore more of what prayer is and can be.
For this resource I need a group of 16-19 year old students to get involved and am therefore asking if any of you know of any students who might want to be involved! It would mean writing an honest and authentic prayer/ sending in one they have already written and being willing to be filmed sharing their thoughts on prayer!”

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Vacancy: Student Chaplain at Hartpury College

As part of the ONE gap year programme run by the Methodist Church, there is a vacancy for a part-time student chaplain at Hartpury College near Glourcester, one year fixed term (1 Sept 2017 to 31 August 2018), salary £6561pa.  Closing date 9.00am on Friday 5 May 2017.

Interested? For further information on the role please visit www.methodist.org.uk/jobs or email Phil Metcalf at: chaplain@hartpury.ac.uk

Email recruitment@methodistchurch.org.uk for an application pack.

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Engage to Impact – FE Chaplaincy Day Conference

Engage to impact is a one-day chaplaincy conference for people working in FE and post-16, taking place on Thursday 18th May, 9.15-3.30 in Bristol.  The conference is organised by the Diocese of Bristol and costs £15.  You can book here.

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Chaplaincy Central are Recruiting!

Chaplaincy Central,who resource and support educational chaplaincy in schools and colleges, are seeking a development worker for 15 months, starting 1st May 2017.  Interested?  Click here for further details.

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Want to help pilot our new resource on Cultivating Identity, Inclusion and Belonging?

We’ve been hard at work developing ideas for a suite of new interactive, flexible-format resources for 16-19s in college, exploring different aspects of Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural development (SMSC).  With the help of talented local resource writer Simeon Whiting, we have a prototype resource on ‘Cultivating Identity, Inclusion and Belonging’ which is ready for trialling in college.  We’d love to hear from any colleges or chaplains who’d like to help us do this.

This week we also had good news that the St Christopher’s Educational Trust have made us a generous grant to help us complete a set of 6-8 resources on different topics, together with previous grants received from St Peter’s Saltley Trust, the Jerusalem Trust and the Friends Hall Farm Street Trust.  Watch this space for more details!

Picture: Still from ‘The New Lad’, part of our new SMSC resource on ‘cultivating identity, inclusion and belonging’, by Simeon Whiting.

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Mistaken Identities – Reith Lectures

The 2016 BBC Reith Lectures by Prof. Kwame Anthony Appiah are a gold mine for anyone wanting to develop their religious literacy or find raw material for discussion on SMSC.  The first three are on ‘creed’, ‘colour’ and ‘country’, exploring religion, ethnicity and nationhood.

From a sociology of religion perspective there is much to debate, as you’ll hear from the discussion following the lecture in each of the podcasts.  But there are some important insights.  The first lecture in the series (‘Creed’) explores how religious traditions and movements are as much about ‘practices’ (i.e., how they actually live) as ‘beliefs’ (statements of faith).  That’s an important insight into understanding how things work in the religious sphere, and indeed for any body of belief or practice.

For more see the BBC Reith Lectures website.

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Engage to Impact – FE Chaplaincy Event

Engage to Impact is a conference for FE chaplains, those thinking about chaplaincy in further education, and FE college staff in related roles (e.g., those working in student services).  It takes place in Bristol on 13th October 2016, 9.15-3.30pm.  For more details and booking contact Samuel Williams: samuel@bristoldiocese.org
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New Forms of Chaplaincy – Cliff College Summer School

Cliff College in Derbyshire is running a summer school on new forms of chaplaincy 1-5 August 2016. Those participating can be lay or ordained, full or part time chaplains.  There are different rates for residential and non-residential.  If you’re interested, download this flyer for further details.  Cliff College is affiliated to the Methodist Church, and the course is starting from a Christian point of view, but you don’t need to be a Methodist to participate.

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Interfaith Education Workshops

Three Faiths Forum are currently establishing a base in the West Midlands.  The charity offers a range of interfaith education workshops.  Might one of these be valuable in your college?  Read more on their website: http://www.3ff.org.uk/schools/education-workshops.php

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Inspirational Chaplaincy – Conference 15 June 2016

‘Inspirational Chaplaincy’ is a one-day conference organised by Chaplaincy Central, featuring the churches’ national adviser for FE Garry Neave, Festive, and Prayer Spaces in Schools.  To book visit: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/chaplaincy-central-conference-tickets-21552820065