Short Courses in Adult Christian Education - a series of programs on DVDs with accompanying facilitation notes for use in our churches.
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Short Courses in Adult Christian Formation
With the support of a grant from the Jessie Ball duPont Fund, the School of Ministry is busy producing DVDs for use in congregations, intended as a stimulus for adult group discussion. The DVDs cover a variety of biblical, theological and ecclesiological subjects. The brief programs, usually lasting from 12-15 minutes, draw upon the rich human resources of our diocese.
Every congregation in the diocese has received a notebook which contains DVDs along with some basic guidance to help in their use. Congregations will continue to receive new programs as they become available.
Now available and already circulated to congregations:
Conversations about a theology of partnership – a series of four programs suitable for mission groups and companion relationships, with one session related specifically to the Millennium Development Goals
Conversations about the Kingdom of God – a series of four programs examining our varied understandings of what the Bible means when it refers to the Kingdom of God and to the in-breaking of the Kingdom
Circulated to congregations in February and March:
Toward a missionary diocese – a series of four programs reflecting upon our diocesan vision of being “a missionary diocese – Living God’s dream, making disciples and making a difference”
A theology of food – reflections upon biblical teachings regarding our relationship to creation and to agriculture
In the works:
Studies on the Gospel of Mark; Conversations about ethics and the Gospel of Matthew; Conversations about the Sermon on the Mount; and an extended documentary on the Episcopal Church in North Carolina, from colonial times onward
DVDs for parish study