This document provides information about resources and opportunities for ministry with children, young people, and families within the Diocese. It discusses the importance of an integrated, intergenerational church where difference is valued. It promotes the Horstead Centre which provides residential and activity programs for spiritual development. It also highlights partnerships between parishes and organizations like Youth for Christ, resources available at Diocesan houses, and the over 30 employed youth workers in the Diocese supporting parish ministry.

1. The good news for ministry with children,
young people & families | 24 March 2012

2. Welcome

3. An integrated / intergenerational church
family where difference is valued.

4. Text
“All of us in the Church in
positions of leadership –
and I say this to myself
above all – need to be
aware of what we have to
learn from the concerns
and the faith and the
witness and the questions
of our young people."

5. Unless you change and become like little children, you
will never enter the kingdom of heaven (Matt 18v2)

6. TWO WORDS.

7. BARRIERS.

8. ESSENTIAL.
NOT-
ESSENTIAL.

9. LIGHTS OF
REVELATION
NEEDEST OF THE
MARGINALISED
BEARERS OF THE
IMAGO DEI
GIFTS FROM THE
HAND OF GOD
DEVELOPING BEINGS IN
NEED OF INSTRUCTION
BEARERS OF SINFUL
NATURE & MORAL
ACCOUNTABILITY

10. Supporting parishes in their mission and
ministry to children, young people & families.
• Providing training and resources
• Identifying and sharing good practice
• Running Diocesan events for children,
young people & families
• Small grants scheme
Children, Young People
& Families Team
Encouraging co-operation and prayer support with networking
groups for parish based leaders, volunteers and employed
workers.

11. Exciting opportunities for personal and spiritual
development through a programme of residential
stays and activity days.
DOES YOUR LOCAL SCHOOL VISIT THE HORSTEAD CENTRE?
The Horstead Centre

12. The children thank you for ‘a week
to remember’ and I know that it
really is a week they will not
forget. Past pupils often come
back to school saying that
Horstead was one of their
happiest memories at school.

13. Horstead Centre:
prayer space

14. Horstead Centre:
prayer space.

15. Text
INVITATION TO REST
REFLECTION & PRAYER.

16. Text

17. MESSY MEET UP: Coming soon!
Messy Church Style /
All Age Worship.

19. • Trained volunteer facilitators who can visit your
parish/school and demonstrate how to use Godly
Play.
Providing training for parish
mission & ministry.

22. www.worshipworkshop.org.uk

23. www.worshipworkshop.org.uk

24. justforvicars-yourchurchwedding.org/

26. After-school clubs / Holiday Clubs

27. Wednesday 29th June 2011,9.30-3.30
Archbishop Sancroft High School
Harleston near Diss
Helping Children & Young
People Pray

43. Resource Centres:
Diocesan House & Loddon
• Resources for your mission & ministry
• Template programmes for after-school clubs, holiday clubs
• Liturgy & worship resources for all-age/family worship
• Puppets, DVD’s, musical instruments
Please tell us what resources you need?

44. .

45. East Norwich Youth Project has regular contact with over 700
young people each month.
Diocesan Churches working in
ecumenical partnerships

46. Parishes in Poringland & Hellesdon partner with
Norwich Youth for Christ to employ part-time youth
workers who work alongside parish volunteers to
provide a range of mission focussed clubs and
discipleship activities for children and young people.
Diocesan Parishes working in
ecumenical partnerships

47. East Norfolk Youth for Christ working in
partnership with Diocesan Parishes in East Norfolk
Diocesan Parishes working in
ecumenical partnerships

49. St. Mary the Virgin, Banham.

50. St. Mary the Virgin, Banham,

51. St. Mary the Virgin Banham, Integrate Youth
for Christ & Right Hand Community Church

52. St. Mary the Virgin Banham, Integrate Youth
for Christ & Right Hand Community Church

53. St. Mary the Virgin Banham, Integrate Youth
for Christ & Right Hand Community Church

54. • Importance of local Churches working together
• Workers with the neccessary skills / gifts
• Prayer
St. Mary the Virgin Banham, Integrate Youth
for Christ & Right Hand Community Church

56. You are the salt of the earth.
But if the salt loses its
saltiness, how can it be
made salty again? It is no
longer good for anything,
except to be thrown out and
trampled underfoot.

58. LORD, MAKE US SALT
SALT
Stop things
from going
Wrong.
Lord, make us salt
Make our minds and all our senses
alert to seeing your strategies for the
kingdom.
To choose your paths in salty service:
to stand in the way of wrong, to
prevent evil where we can see it
rearing its head, to protect the weak,
the poor, the left our, the pushed
aside.

59. LORD, MAKE US SALT
SALT
Help make
good flavours
stongs
Lord, make us salt
Bring out the strong salty flavours of
your gospel in our lives, in our
conversations, in our decisions, in our
caring and our creating.

60. LORD, MAKE US SALT
SALT
Help to heal
Lord, make us salt
May our presence in our communities,
our churches, our relationships be an
agent of your healing. Heal the
brokenness around us, and heal the
wounds within us.

62. HOPE.
FEAR.

63. Young people will comeYoung people will come
when they feel they arewhen they feel they are
being taken seriously;being taken seriously;
when they have thewhen they have the
opportunity to askopportunity to ask
questions and whenquestions and when
they have the chance tothey have the chance to
develop as peopledevelop as people
within the church.within the church.

64. Across the Diocese
•32 employed children, youth & family workers in the
Diocese based in parishes (full or part-time)
•Since April 2006 we have obtained 2111 CRB checks
for the Diocese. (613 Clergy & 239 Readers)
•Since Jan 06, 761 people have attended a Diocese
Child Protection Training Session.

65. The best gift you can give children is
time and conversation.