Ministries Council

PRIORITY AREAS

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• Wider Church & Society - raising awareness of poverty across the country
  
• New Models of Church - supporting fresh models of church life in Scotland's poorest neighbourhoods
  
• New Models of Community - helping people of faith to address the causes and symptoms of poverty
  

Latest updates for August 2010

In focus: Tough Financial Plans could be Storing up Social Disaster

Priority Areas eNews Download the August issue with the latest news from priority areas around Scotland, resources and forthcoming events.	[.pdf] (83KB)
Download special editions for August	[.pdf] (52KB)
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Do YOU want some practical help?

Are there some very practical tasks which you could be doing with some help with next Spring? A small group of men from North Carolina & Delaware (USA) have been in touch with the Priority Areas Office to ask if they might visit Scotland next Spring. A little bit of their visit would be to learn something of the history of the Church in Scotland but the major part of what they are interested in doing is serving local faith communities in very practical ways.

Martin Johnstone (the Priority Areas Secretary) met some of the group when he was in the USA a few years ago. Last year the group (part of the Presbyterian Church USA) visited Kenya where they were involved in building a ward in a local hospital. We are trying to see whether there would be some work for the group to do if they were to come to Scotland. If you have some very practical tasks that you could do with a help with next Spring, can you please be in touch with Lynn MacLellan (0141 248 2905; lmaclellan@cofscotland.org.uk) as soon as possible - and not later than Monday 30th August

Certificate in Supervision Studies

An Option for the Young

Our new strategy for working with young people in the Church's priority areas was launched on 20 January. Visit The Herald's website here to read an article which was published.
Download a copy of the strategy	[.pdf] (882KB)

Priority Areas programmes for 2010

Our events for the coming year, including youth work peer support, a training day for elders and a day for celebrating twinning. [.pdf] (430KB)

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Introduction
Welcome to the Priority Areas pages

Wider church and society
Twinning, priority areas forum, Just Church and Together for a Change

New models of church
Transforming lives, Soul Marks, and developing creative ways to bring the Church to priority parishes

New models of community
Faith in Community, Transformation Team, and other projects and work in the community

News and events
Priority area e-news and forthcoming events

Resources
Information and resources to download

Priority Area videos
Big Hearted Communities features the work in some of the priority areas.