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Who wants to join a learning network?

Flier for Action Learning Networks for Ordained Pioneer Ministers and Church Army EvangelistsIf you want to be part of a learning network, but don't know who to join with, you could check the page What learning networks exist? and contact a network that is near you or that meets around your particular subject area.

Or you can  contact Beth Keith, the Share learning networks co-ordinator. She will try to put you in contact with an existing learning network that fits your needs.

Church Army and Fresh Expressions are organising Action Learning Networks for Ordained Pioneer Ministers and Church Army Evangelists. The flier can be downloaded here and more information can be obtained from Beth Keith.

We will be launching the Share Community in the early part of 2010, a networking part of Share where learning networks and individuals can share knowledge and advice with each other.

Or you can leave a comment at the bottom of this page so that others who are like-minded can get in touch.

 

What are learning networks and why do they matter?

How can we start a learning network?

What learning networks exist?

What are learning networks discovering?

 

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Pioneer perspectives on the Lectionary readings

Posted by David Muir on 09 March 09 - 16:22

In my new role as Pioneer Minister for a Deanery of 23 parishes, I have found myself in different churches each week, mostly preaching/speaking. And most of the time I have been relating the lectionary readings/theme to the vision and values of pioneer ministry, to help people see that this is a deeply Christian thing and reflected throughout Scripture.

So recently I was talking on Col 1:15-20, pointing out that God’s creation is not just the physical and visible creation, beautiful though it is, but also the invisible aspects of our world (v16). Paul illustrates these as political, social and spiritual forces; but there are many other invisible bits about the world God has made. Some of the most important aspects of life are part of the invisible creation: relationships, love, conviction, determination, values, society, culture, etc. There is great variety in all of God’s creation, including the invisible bits, and as churches we need to relate to this variety and value it. We also need to recognise that God want to reconcile all of this variety in creation to himself. Thus pioneer ministry, to reach out to those parts of creation whose invisible aspects tend to set them apart from the forms of church we have inherited from Christendom. Well, you get the picture.

I have begun to think: who else is doing this around the country? Could we link up and help each other with these thoughts and ideas, perhaps save each other a job from time to time? Take turns and think ahead so that we feed each other ideas? Or at least enrich each other’s thinking? Or is someone already doing this, and I could tap into it?

And/or could we together create a weekly ‘pioneer perspective’ on the lectionary readings for the primary service each Sunday of the year, in order to help clergy and other preachers feed these ideas into the mainstream church?

Does this ring a bell for anyone?