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The Main Sessions
Change that Lasts: Sustaining Spirituality
Rev Joel Edwards, Rt Rev James Jones and Rt Hon Stephen Timms MP
Our commitment to social action begins with our commitment to God, our hope in Him and our love for Him. It is our faith that fuels our desire for positive change. It is our faith that works to bring transformation.
This opening main session offers a time to celebrate and reflect on the transforming and sustaining impact of spirituality in the life of a Change Agent. Click here to purchase.
What Makes A Healthy Community?
The Rt Hon Hazel Blears MP, Secretary of State for Communities and
Local Government. Click here to purchase.
Changing the Way We Work: Learning Lessons From Social Enterprise
Dr Patrick Dixon with Brian Souter
Social enterprise is bringing a fresh perspective to the challenges affecting our communities. By combining business acumen with social conscience, entrepreneurs are finding creative solutions to problems of poverty and exclusion. Dr Patrick Dixon explores how Christians seeking to bring positive change can profit from business principles and use them to advance God’s Kingdom. Click here to purchase.
Changing Communities: Effective Community Development
Fran Beckett OBE and Bishop Joe Aldred
Consultation, partnership and empowerment take time and as people who seek change, it can be a frustrating process. But for transformation to be sustainable we have to listen, be strategic and work together for an effective, long term solution. This session catches a glimpse of the change that can be achieved when God’s people engage effectively. Click here to purchase.
Simple Way to Transformation
Shane Claiborne shares his insights into living as a change agent. Shane is the author of Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical and the founder of The Simple Way, a radical community of faith in inner city Philadelphia. Their mission is, "To Love God. To Love people. To Follow Jesus." And they give it their best shot. Click here to purchase.
Change Agents: Changing Leadership
Steve Chalke MBE and Shane Claiborne
Change agents are pioneers and innovators. They can also be difficult and demanding. But their calling is tough: to take a vision and wrench it into reality. This means inspiring others, enabling them to dream the impossible and do what they thought could never be done. This session, led by leaders for leaders, will take an honest look at leadership. Click here to purchase.
Celebrating Change: Stories of Transformation
Rev Malcolm Duncan and Bishop Ken and Mary Good
All over the UK, Christians are bringing transformation to their communities through their hard work, commitment and sacrifice. These modern day heroes of the Christian faith are at the cutting edge of what Faithworks stands for. This session will encourage us to leave the Faithworks Conference, confident that our faith works, and ready to be agents of change. Click here to purchase.
Seminars
Change that lasts
Pilgrim Tales: Understanding the Journey
Jayne Scott and Rob Merchant, Staffordshire University
We are all pilgrims, sharing the journey together. This interactive seminar will ask and attempt to answer the question “what is spirituality?”, This will help us shape the next steps in our individual and collaborative journeys. Click here to purchase.
Pilgrim Tales: Surveying the Landscape Together
Joy Madeiros, Oasis UK and Rob Merchant, Staffordshire University
Take time to think about those within our communities with whom we
share our journey, seeking a new and fresh perspective on how to address
spiritual opportunities, and best realize the possibilities that surround us. Click here to purchase.
Pilgrim Tales: Celebrating the Journey
Tamsin Merchant, University of Gloucestershire, and Mike Morris, Evangelical Alliance
An opportunity to spend time with other passionate and likeminded pilgrims sharing how your faith and spirituality shapes your daily life and practice, and how you can continue to grow and develop, going from strength to strength as you continue to pilgrim together. Click here to purchase.
Changing the Way We Work
Structuring your Social Enterprise Success
Uday Thakkar, Red Ochre
What is social enterprise? There is no legal definition, which causes confusion. Many people are jumping on the social enterprise band wagon for all the wrong reasons. Find out whether social enterprise could be right for you and how you can structure it for success. Click here to purchase.
Using Social Enterprise to Further Your Church’s Mission
Tim Reith, Community Innovation UK
Find out how to be agents of change using social enterprise. With practical case studies, Tim Reith will furnish you with ways to deliver your outreach in a financially sustainable way. Click here to purchase.
Learning Lessons from Social Enterprise
Mark Ashton, Daily Bread Co-operative
Daily Bread is a thriving, profitable business. This seminar will tell the story of a successful social enterprise, exploring candidly the opportunities and pitfalls that this involves. You will have the opportunity to ask questions and share experiences so that you can be equipped and inspired to move forward in your own work. Click here to purchase.
Changing Communities
Changing Communities from the Bottom Up
Jill Clark and Adam Bonner, Grooms-Shaftesbury
Christian community development is much more than just “helping” the needy. It’s about empowering people to make change happen. Find out how to encourage creative responses to the real needs within your local community. Click here to purchase.
Changing Communities Through Working Together
James Alexander, Grooms-Shaftesbury, Andy Thomas, Lewisham Council, and Abbe Stapleton, Oasis UK
If you want to go fastest, go alone; if you want to go furthest, go together.” Changing communities involves working with other groups such as the council, police, and other organisations. But can clear vision be combined with a partnership approach, or will our mission get watered down? Come and get creative ideas for working together! Click here to purchase.
Changing Communities for the Long Term
David Arscott, Grooms-Shaftesbury and Paul Sanderson, the WIRE Project
Christian social action is too often a hit and run job. But short-term commitment has short-term results and can leave people more disillusioned than ever. What are the ingredients for long-term change that lasts? And how can we make our community work sustainable? Click here to purchase.
Change Agents
Volunteer Leadership
Pete Brierley, Oasis UK
Unprofessional, untrained and unbelievably important! The reality of churches seeking to engage in their local communities will mean a heavy reliance on good-hearted and willing volunteers. But what does it mean to equip and lead volunteers in a setting that needs stability, longevity and eternal hope? Click here to purchase.
Vulnerable Leadership
Guest Panel
Leadership is messy and it’s going to get messier! What once felt like leading the flock now feels like herding cats. If we want people to follow we have to use different tools from those that worked in the past. Explore what leadership will need to look like if we are to become the agents of change we long to see. Click here to purchase.
Virtuous Leadership
Tony Cant, Parish of Walthamstow
One local church leader said “on the walk to work I ask God to prepare me, and on the walk home I ask Him to repair me.” The reality of leadership within the context of local community engagement is exhausting. How do we as leaders maintain our relationship with God? What do you do when the fervour and passion seems a distant memory? Click here to purchase.
Celebrating Change
Transforming our Environments
Dave Bookless, A Rocha UK, Anne Dannerolle, Hull Community Church,
and Peter McGeary, Glamis Adventure Playground
Regenerating physical space breathes new life into our communities. Hear the stories of three projects bringing change to their localities through rebuilding, regeneration and restoring earth to its natural beauty. This session will include time to network so that experiences can be shared, and your questions answered. Click here to purchase.
Transforming Crisis Situations
Ross Hardy, Beachy Head Chaplaincy Team, Julian Prior, Open Door – Tyneside, and Jeremy Ravn, FOOD BANK
Change agents are bringing hope and literally saving lives in the most acute situations. In this seminar hear the inspirational stories of three very different projects, modeling excellence as they serve those in crisis. Take the opportunity to share with those who face similar pressures, dramas and heartaches in their work. Click here to purchase.
Transforming Isolation
Helen Hill, One 25 Limited, Aidan Lucas, ACCEPT, Mel Thomas, St Andrew’s Memory Club
Isolation is a key cause of community breakdown. These stories of hope provide creative approaches and different models of reaching some of the most marginalised people in our society: older people, sex workers, and those with mental health needs. You will have the opportunity to share your story with those serving in the same field. Click here to purchase.
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