Visit the new website of Fishergate Baptist Church Preston, which now has its own domain name:
www.fishergatebaptist.org.uk
Read about recent youth projects at the church, conclusions from recent consultations, a developing new vision for the future and our attempt to recruit a team of 12 disciples to renew and strengthen our mission in the city centre.
Is God calling you to join an exciting new city centre ministry team in the centre of the newest city in England, the third city of the North West?
Fishergate Baptist Church in Preston, is looking for a dozen committed Christians willing to join our small congregation, and become part of our team developing new patterns of Christian service and outreach at the heart of the city. We believe our church has a distinctive calling to work among homeless and needy people, and with the young and mobile populations who frequent the city centre. We sense that through this ministry we will find renewal of church life.
We can’t afford to support you financially, but
If you can offer a minimum of 8 hours of your time each week
If you already live locally or are able to move to Preston,
If you are willing to explore new expressions of Christian life and mission
If you can work as a member of a diverse team
If you sense this is a challenge or calling from God
If you are aged between 18 & 95
We’d like to hear from you.
If you want to find out more look at our website www.fishergatebaptist.btik.com and/or contact:
Rev Neil Jones on 01772 862470 or by email on neilandruth@hotmail.com
Friday, 29 February 2008
Fishergate Baptist Church has a new website
Visit the new website of Fishergate Baptist Church Preston, which now has its own domain name:
Friday, 8 February 2008
Shaftesbury training: Supporting volunteers -10 April LEEDS
Manipulation or Motivation?
How to make the most of the time, skills and experience of your volunteers
With limited budgets and staff, churches and community projects rely heavily on volunteers.
But are we really looking after and listening to them?
Do we make the most of their potential?
Wednesday 10th April
10am-3:30pm
St Matthias church, St Matthias Street, Burley,
£10/person to be paid on the day (including lunch and drinks)
Booking essential
This interactive and fun training day aims to equip those involved in churches and Christian community projects who manage volunteers. It will be practical and realistic so that you can implement what you learn straightaway. You will leave equipped and encouraged to make the most of your volunteers.
The day will cover.
§ Understanding motivations: why do people volunteer for Christian projects?
§ Why the best projects are full of volunteers
§ Top tips on how to motivate others
§ The art of communication and how to deal with tricky issues
§ Helpful websites and books to continue your learning
Our facilitators:
David Arscott and Jon Kuhrt work for the Community Mission team at Grooms-Shaftesbury. Both David and Jon have a wide range of professional experience managing volunteers in the public and voluntary sector as well as in churches. The Community Mission team is dedicated to providing training that is enjoyable, practical and focused on making a difference to the impact of your community work.
To Book:
Contact Ruth Smith on 0113 350 8070 or rsmith@grooms-shaftesbury.org.uk
Driving directions to St Matthias church,
From The City Centre and Motorways
Follow signs for the Town Centre and then for Skipton A65. This will take you past the Holiday Inn and the Yorkshire Post building both on
On the other side of the
Turn right at the traffic lights just before the Railway viaduct. Care should be taken here as this turning is not particularly well marked.
Turn left at the next set of lights onto
St Matthias Church is on the left hand side, with the Church Centre at the rear of the Building.
From
A65 (
If following the A65 into
Turn left at the next set of lights onto
If traveling via the Outer Ring Road and then
At the next set of lights go straight across (the viaduct is on your left) and turn left at the following set of traffic lights onto
St Matthias Church is on the left hand side, with the Church Centre at the rear of the Building.
Jill Clark
Community
Grooms-Shaftesbury
Office: 020 7452 2018
Email: jclark@grooms-shaftesbury.org.uk
For more information on the Community Mission team please visit our website
Tuesday, 5 February 2008
Church seeks to install CCTV
I find it rather sad that a church in Fulwood (as reported in LEP 5th Feb)
http://www.lep.co.uk/news/Priest-calls-for-security-cameras.3743911.jp
is plagued by young people hanging around its premises, and that it has joined some of the residents in attempting to control, or move on the problem by installing CCTV cameras. I fear this will not be very effective, will only alienate the youngsters further, and anger many other young people who are already fed up with being lumped together and blamed for most of society's ills.
I speak as a 56 year old grumpy old man, grumpy because most of my generation wish the police would arrest, inflict physical punishment and banish all teenagers from our streets and public places. It is particularly sad when the church shows any sign of joining this prejudiced outcry. In the good old days when I was a teenager many churches, and other community organisations came up with a better solution, providing constructive leisure activities, sports and youth clubs and building relationships with young people, even with the "feral" teddy boys, mods and rockers who then roamed the streets of many cities.
Thankfully there are still a few churches, and other faith based and community organisations that still try to do the same, with committed volunteers and parents who give hours of their time to work with kids. Sadly it is far more difficult these days to do so, given the general hostility to the young, the shortage of volunteers, the highly regulated regimes youth services operate under, the pressure to meet educational targets and above all the lack of serious government funding to support general purpose youth work.
It is my belief that vast investment in youth work in the community would do far more to reduce crime and anti social behaviour than the repressive community policing and surveillance that is the current fashion. Recognising the positive contribution of the young to our society is long overdue.
One way some of us are doing this is to serve our own ASBOs on suitable young people. These are certificates stating that the young person in question is Alright, Sensational, Beautiful and Original and is making a positive impact for good in the community. I would invite all the churches in
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