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Wishing you all a wonderful week,
Rosie Winn and Mike Ivatt
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The 3Generate manifesto has been published. This was created from feedback gathered across all age streams at 3Generate, the Methodist young people’s event held last November. Copies of the manifesto and posters are available online.
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Creating a welcoming environment
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Thy Kingdom Come training
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The Thy Kingdom Come team are looking for locations to hold Inspire and Equip training events. These are to support church leaders and organisers as they prepare to take part in Thy Kingdom Come 2019.
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Jobs around the Connexion
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A number of vacancies are available around the Connexion. You can find the full list of roles on the Methodist Church website. Vacancies include outreach work, safeguarding, administration and new positions as the Project Director and Research Director at Englesea Brook Chapel and Museum.
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Easter school for preachers and leaders
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Wesley House, Cambridge is offering a course of in-depth teaching and personal development for preachers and worship leaders. The three-day course, with Graham McFarlane and Julie Lunn, takes place 15-17 April.
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Methodist Ministers’ Housing Society
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The Methodist Ministers’ Housing Society is seeking an Operations Director to develop their operational activities.
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This year’s Easter Offering service ‘Longer tables, lower fences’ features stories of shared hospitality across the world. It encourages us to consider how we might build longer tables, rather than higher fences.
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On the radio
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Something Understood
BBC Radio 4, 6.05am
Sunday, 27 January
Remona Aly explores symbolic, mythological, scientific and religious concepts of motherhood.
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The Choir
BBC Radio 3, 4.00pm
Sunday, 27 January
Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces this week’s selection of irresistible music for voices. including Franck’s Panis Angelicus, a setting for women’s voices by Saint-Saens, Byzantine Chant and Robert Carver’s motet O Bone Jesu.
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The Sympathy of Things
BBC Radio 4, 4.00pm
Monday, 28 January
Amica Dall and Giles Smith use the contemporary craft movement to look at people’s changing relationship with labour, value and the material world.
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On TV
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The American Civil War
BBC Four, 9.00pm
Thursday, 24 January
Lucy Worsley shows how the history of the American Civil War has been retold over time, in movies, books and speeches, to promote freedom and equality but also hatred and division.
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The Last Survivors
BBC Two, 9.00pm
Sunday, 27 January
Compelling personal testimonies of the remaining Holocaust survivors living in Britain, all of whom were children during their incarceration in the concentration camps.
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Inside Europe: Ten Years of Turmoil
BBC Two, 9.00pm
Monday, 28 January
Documentary telling the stories of the battles to keep the European Union together, with contributions by presidents, prime ministers and their closest advisers.
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Video Thursday:
Susanna Wesley – Birth to Burial
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Last Sunday, 20 January, marked the 350th anniversary of the birth of Susanna Wesley. The short video below follows the ‘Birth to Burial’ pilgrimage that set off from Wesley’s Chapel in London.
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You can find the UK parliamentary business online here. If you want to find out about the Scottish Parliamentary calendar, click here and the timetable for the National Assembly for Wales, click here.
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The Week Ahead is a regular mailing that gives you a heads-up on forthcoming events and opportunities, as well as highlighting new information and resources across the Methodist Church. We cannot know about everything that’s going on, so please do email us if you have any feedback or ideas for items to include.
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