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an on-line tool for Local Preacher Development by Martyn Evans and Marion Beckham
I am the Local Preachers’ Tutor for the Keswick and Cockermouth Circuit. Marion is my student. In this article, we are going to describe how the social networking site ‘Facebook’ supports her learning and development as a ‘student’ Local Preacher and mine as her Tutor.
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Continuing development: The Sheffield experience |
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Donald Smith describes the Sheffield experience
Methodist Local Preachers recognise the necessity of continuing in study and prayer following accreditation; those accredited from September 1995 onwards acknowledge this publicly when they accept the discipline of the Methodist Church which includes: ‘it is the duty of local preachers… to continue to develop and study by appropriate means, … and in a programme of continuing local preacher development’. (SO 568 3 (ii))
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Short-term approaches for development that have worked for us – could they work for you too?
by Catherine Frieze and Anne Vautrey
The plot
A few years ago in North East Leeds, at a regular preachers’ meeting, we discussed the idea of an interesting programme of workshops and reflection. We agreed we would value different ways of training and supporting one another. The meeting suggested a range of topics for workshops there and then. From the start there was a mix of topics: extending what we know, deepening our faith and honing how we lead worship and preach (knowledge, conviction, competence).
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