This document advertises 6 professional development training days for youth workers hosted by South West Youth Ministries during the 2011/12 academic year. Each day costs £30 or you can purchase access to all 6 days for £125. The dates and topics are listed along with the speakers for each event. The events will be held at Hill House Christian Centre in Otterhampton, Bridgwater and include worship, sessions with the speakers, lunch, and an evening celebration. Attendees can book by filling out and returning the booking slip along with payment.

1. Just £30
per day
or £125 for
all 6 days!
DAVID LAWRENCE RACHEL WELCH AMY STOCK IAN HENDERSON RACHEL GARDNER GAVIN CALVER MARK PUGH
Professional Development Training Days
During the academic year 2011/12 South West Youth Ministries are hosting six professional development
training days that are open to all. If you are a full time or voluntary youth worker these days are
designed especially for you; to encourage you in the work that you are doing and to share ideas.
Sept 12th: DAVID LAWRENCE Feb 20th: RACHEL GARDNER
Looking after Yourself Sex Positive
David Lawrence has been a teacher, schools worker, church Rachel is co-founder and Director of the Romance Academy, a
leader, and church consultant over the years. He currently revolutionary relationships project that builds young people’s
works on the Inspire Project, helping to develop a network of self esteem enhanced by sexual delay. Her work involves
‘mission-shaped’ disciples who are committed to developing a training Youth Workers and Peer Educators across the UK to
deepening spiritual and missional life. deliver holistic relationships and sex education programmes
in schools, churches and community centres.
Oct 31st: RACHEL WELCH & AMY STOCK
Essential knowledge about self-harm April 16th: GAVIN CALVER
and creative ideas for schools From Vision to Reality
Rachel is the Project Director of selfharm.co.uk. She has Gavin Calver is the National Director of Youth for Christ, a
personal and professional experiences of mental health issues charity that works with over 300,000 young people a month
and regularly speaks and writes about self-harm, as well as in places such as schools, prisons and churches. A theology
overseeing the development of the website. Amy Stock runs graduate, ordained evangelist and regular public speaker, his
schoolswork.co.uk, a project which resources, inspires and third book 'Lazy, Anti- social & Selfish?' came out in 2009.
trains Christians visiting schools across the UK.
June 25th: MARK PUGH
PROGRAMME Jan 9th: IAN HENDERSON Transformational Leadership
10:30 Worship with SWYM team Outreach to the Mark is the full-time director of Serious4God which is a
12:30 Session 1
Out of Reach national youth department for Elim. He travels widely to
Ian Henderson joined the Message churches and youth events, inspiring and challenging people
13:30 Lunch to rise up with the call of God upon their lives. Prior to Mark
Trust in 2001 and pioneered an
14:30 Session 2 EDEN project in Harpurhey, which leading S4G, he pastored city churches in both Derby and
15:40 Session 3 at the time was the most deprived Birmingham and developed strong teams which led the
16:50 Session 4 ward in the UK. He is now an churches into dynamic ministries reaching significant
18:00 Dinner Executive Director of Missions and numbers of young people.
19:30 Evening Celebration oversees the Message’s schools, VENUE: Hill House Christian Centre
prison and bus ministry. Otterhampton, Bridgwater TA5 2PT
BOOK Fill in this slip or email admin@swym.org.uk and send a cheque payable to SWYM to 140 Pinhoe Rd, Exeter EX4 7HJ.
If you have any questions please contact us on Tel: 01392 273560
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Please write the dates you wish to book and your full address on the back of this booking slip. Thank you.