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Part-Time Finance Officer
Enfield Circuit Office, Southgate – 16 hours/week
Salary is approx £10k pa.
Details and application form: enfieldcircuit@yahoo.com
Closing date for applications 8th June
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MEDAL 2012
Article from Methodist Recorder Feb 2012
A strategy for developing lay leaders
Since its beginning, the London District has been committed to listening carefully to the needs of its people, churches and Circuits and to finding ways of responding to the challenges that emerge. The District Review has encouraged and focused that process.
Churches and Circuits are saying that finding a new generation of leaders is a major challenge within the life of the District.
In addition, the District Council is recommending to Synod that as part of the renewed vision for the District, ‘equipping and developing disciples and congregations’ needs to be one of the key priorities.
In order to find ways to develop the leaders necessary for that process the District Council has set up the Lay Leadership Strategy Group (LLSG).
Together with the churches and Circuits of the District, the LLSG will run a two year programme to find and nurture new leaders who, like those of previous generations, are motivated by their calling as disciples, their passion for helping others to grow and who are committed to teamwork.
It has chosen a programme title with an Olympic theme: MEDAL 2012
M – Methodists E – Enabling D – Disciples A – and L – Leaders
The leadership provided by lay people is a vital part of the Methodist story from its very beginnings. Our discipleship has been and in some places still is sustained and inspired by the Methodist class – the small groups with lay people as leaders nurturing others.
A key part of MEDAL 2012 will be to ask how that model can be re-energised to be effective in London today.
The churches of the London District have an outstanding record of lay people serving the church in a variety of ways, but the experience of recent years is that new volunteers and leaders are slow to emerge. We need to know why and to do something about it.
Study material and other material will be produced later this year.
MEDAL 2012 sets out to meet these challenges. Its twofold task is to:
1. Celebrate and support all current lay ministries
- The District needs to ensure that we are getting our support and training right
We also need to ask what is preventing more new people becoming leaders today
2.Recruit and nurture new leaders
- We need a vision that will inspire new generations of lay leaders – the spiritual challenge
We need a re-envisioning of leadership roles and patterns so that the distinctive gifts of individuals may be used to the full – the organisational challenge
MEDAL 2012 is inspired by the vision of the church in Ephesians 4:12 The gifts God gave ... are to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until all of us come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to maturity, to the measure of the full stature of Christ
September: Work on Medal 2012 continues; ideas and resources are being shaped and will be available at Sept Synod. Following a successful launch of the Medal 2012 programme at Wesley’s Chapel in May, the LLSG continues to keep momentum on the programme and invites you to get involved.
Articles - web-archive
Download the text of MEDAL 2012 for printing as a leaflet
Minutes of the Enfield Circuit Meeting held at Ordnance Road Methodist Church on Wednesday 9th November 2011
The Electronic Hymnbook a discussion
Easter 2011
400 years of the Authorised Version The Methodist Church Project
Covenant 2011
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