Emerging Spirit @ The United Church of Canada Emerging Spirit @ The United Church of Canada

Reggie McNeal says 'we don't need a new evangelism strategy. What we need is a blessing strategy.'
Here's an example of the power of blessing.

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Some of the previous resources can be found here:

1. Grief
2. Pastoral Care
3. Pay It Forward
4. United Church in Meadowood: Dementia

   The most recent workshop from the Pastoral Care Team at UCiM has been on Funeral Planning, and in particular within Manitoba. Please do feel free to use the resources as is appropriate to your own context.

   Blessings.

Who Claims Our Loyalty?
David Milne

“It is better to trust in the Lord than to depend on human leaders.” Psalm 118, v. 19

I was reading this psalm on the morning of the day when the new President, Barack Obama, arrived in Ottawa. My memory stirred up the image of another new President.

About fifty years ago President Kennedy took office. In his early forties, he was extremely young for the office. Moreover, he was a Roman Catholic, the first ever to become President. In a fit of hyperbole the press likened his administration to Camelot, an idyllic place of happiness and enlightenment. As an idealistic teenager, and even though Canadian, I shared that dream.

Who Claims Our Loyalty?
David Milne

“It is better to trust in the Lord than to depend on human leaders.” Psalm 118, v. 19

I was reading this psalm on the morning of the day when the new President Barack Obama arrived in Ottawa. My memory stirred up the image of another new President.

About fifty years ago President Kennedy took office. In his early forties he was extremely young for the office. Moreover, he was a Roman Catholic, the first ever to become President. In a fit of hyperbole the press likened his administration to Camelot, an idyllic place of happiness and enlightenment. As an idealistic teenager, and even though Canadian, I shared that dream.

Who Claims Our Loyalty?
David Milne

“It is better to trust in the Lord than to depend on human leaders.” Psalm 118, v. 19

I was reading this psalm on the morning of the day when the new President Barack Obama arrived in Ottawa. My memory stirred up the image of another new President.

About fifty years ago President Kennedy took office. In his early forties he was extremely young for the office. Moreover, he was a Roman Catholic, the first ever to become President. In a fit of hyperbole the press likened his administration to Camelot, an idyllic place of happiness and enlightenment. As an idealistic teenager, and even though Canadian, I shared that dream.

What best practices do you have around acquiring new church school teachers.

We have a number of new folks and new families, which has helped bring out church school back to life. It is a wonderful situation to be in; however, acquiring teachers from a pool of folks we don't know that well has introduced some challenges.

I'm feeling the need for a teacher application or registration form. Also, I wonder if an interview process would show that them that we do due diligence around the kids.

Note: to-date, we have built in an informal interview process & peer recommendation. In addition,most we have contacted know others and/or are teachers in our local public schools. I'm not concerned about current risk; however, would like to set a standard to follow.

Anyone seen these in books or have any they have designed?

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Once we get past that hurdle, I will post some of our thoughts / plans around teacher training.