With social responsibility on your
mind for the 2012 Games, here's some important news.
Our Social Justice Team have
highlighted human
trafficking and prostitution,
homelessness,
the environment
and Fair-trade
as ways you and your church can play their part.
Here's your next step
-
1. Sign up
for the Social Justice workshop at Get Set - the day
for churches to get ready for the Games. Social Justice is one of the 11 workshops at each of
our 'Get Set' days throughout the UK. Here you will discover:
- How your church can respond to human trafficking and
prostitution
- How your church can respond to homelessness
- How your church can be responsible over the environment
and Fair-trade
- Engaging with peace through the '100 Days of Peace'
initiative
Please don't come alone. The full
workshop choice at Get Set gives your church new ideas, strategies, skills and
resources to help them well beyond 2012.
There are full-day sessions on
Running Community Festivals,
Using Sport
to Impact Every Age-group and Being a Games
Pastor. And electives on Reaching Children and Youth, the Torch Relay and Your
Community, Prayer,
Using International Mission
Teams, Mission Through the Paralympics and Games-related Social Justice.
Get set is on Saturdays from 10.30am to 4.30pm.
The dates and locations are February: 25th Reading, 25th Cardiff, March: 3rd Stoke, 3rd Bath, 10th Wolverhampton, 10th Central London, 17th Greenwich, 17th Gateshead, 24th Barnsley, 24th Weymouth, 31st Bolton, 31st East London, April: 21st Glasgow, 21st Stevenage, 28th Belfast, 28th Nottingham.
2. Free pack
of ideas and help - with a fair-trade focus
A free 48 page compendium of
resources is now out .It has lots of ideas
on how churches can engage with their community. And also ways to wake a church up to the
opportunity.
It is all through the lens of
keeping everything fair-trade. To check it out and order it just go here.
3. See the
latest on our website
There is a growing amount of
information on the Social Justice section of our website.
It gives you information on each
of the concerns highlights by the Social Justice Team.
To find it all just go here.
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