Upcoming Events
2024 Basic and Inservice Mentor Training
1pm Friday 22 November to 5pm Saturday 23 November 2024
Home of Compassion 2 Rhine St, Island Bay, Wellington.
EfM (Education for Ministry) is a program of study devised primarily for lay people (though ordained folks benefit from participating too!). It provides four-years of study material at a tertiary level and in a learning environment where the reading and reflection undertaken by the individual members of the group is then reflected on together at weekly group meetings and applied to everyday life and ministry.
EfM is a way to continually deepen the journey with God in the company of a group which provides challenge and support and co-learning opportunities. It has both academic rigour and a holistic, grounded way of applying that rigour to the realities of 21st century life, living into what into means to be disciples of Christ in our particular time and context.
To support the life of EfM groups and provide for the possibility of new groups forming we need to have mentors who are trained in the skills needed to facilitate these co-learning groups.
A mentor is not an expert, or a tutor, but a co-learner with group members who has the added group skills to ensure that a safe, honest, non-judgmental learning environment is fostered.
If you think that you might have what it takes to be a mentor, and/or are interested in in stepping into the adventure that is EfM, fill in the registration form and come along to the training event in Wellington.
Coming to the training does not commit you to being a mentor! Come, taste, and see!
If you have questions or want more information email educationforministrynz@outlook.com>
Registrations close on 8 November 2024
Treaty Prinicples: A politcal and faith issue
12:30pm Sunday 1 December
The Garden Room, St Peter's on Willis St, 211 Willis St, Wellington
The EfM (Education for Ministry) programme teaches us to refl ect from our faith perspectives on issues that are important in our daily lives. We have chosen the Treaty Principles as a current issue that we need to reflect on as people of the Gospel. We recognise that this is a controversial topic. This is how we, as EfM, would wrestle with this issue –
join us as we have fun, and go deep, refl ecting theologically about what God is calling us to as followers of Christ and citizens of Aotearoa.
Light refreshments provided. Feel free to bring your lunch to eat while we work
EfM 50th Anniversary Retreat 2025
10am Friday 15 August to 3pm Sunday 17 August
St Francis Retreat Centre, Hillsborough Auckland
The program and cost will be available late in 2024
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More about upcoming Information events will be added as soon as details are finalised. If you are interested in starting or joining an EfM group in your district, please contact Michael
Contact for information:Michael Crawford-Butler educationforministrynz@outlook.com
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