Wisdom’s Feast is happening again at the CTM from 19-23 June. Those who attended back in 2007 speak of how engaging, exciting and educational this event was for their ministry. We want to draw to your attention to the workshops being held on Sunday afternoon from 1-5 pm that are particularly aimed at lay people. Check out the following tasty offerings and be encouraged in your ministry.

Note: that the whole program for Wisdom’s Feast can be viewed and downloaded from the CTM website.

Sunday Workshops:

• Waking the dead: Leading Sunday Worship

Garry Deverell, Minister and Professor of Worship and Preaching at the Theological College.How can you make the most of the Sunday gathering of Christians? How can you interrupt people’s anxieties and awaken faith in God? You can’t! So what can you do?

• God has chosen this for you. “Really?”

Leader: Andy Calder, Senior Chaplain at Epworth Hospital, Richmond, since 2003. A pastoral care workshop exploring pastoral and theological issues in oft-heard clichés. How appropriate are they for people who are suffering and/or isolated? What alternatives might there be? Come ready to share and discuss!

• Grappling with biblical texts

Leader: Peter Mallen, Director of the Discipleship Education Unit at the CTM. An opportunity to help people to engage the Bible more deeply and provide tools for getting a handle on a Biblical text, and strategies for applying the text in a sermon or Bible Study. BYO Bible and imagination.

• Meet the Dalton McCaughey Library

Presenter: Stephen Connelly, Chief Librarian.This session will introduce you to the Library and how to use it. You will be invited to undertake a series of tasks that will enable you to get acquainted with this amazing resource.

• Ministry Smorgasboard

Coordinator: Gwen Ince, Lay Leadership Educator at the CTM.An invitation to Period of Discernment (PoD) participants, mentors and anyone interested to chat with UCA people engaged in a wide variety of ministry styles and locations. An invitation to those in ministry to tell their story to those exploring ministry options.

• Wisdom and Child, the Child in Scripture

Leaders: Chris & Beth Barnett, Children & Families Coordinators for the VicTas Synod and Baptist Union respectively. Scripture uses a wide range of terms for child, children and childhood, literally, rhetorically and metaphorically. Exploring children in Scripture can encourage reflection on our practices with children and families in our faith communities.

•   Tools for Youth and Young Adult Ministry

Leaders: Drew Hanna and Rod Dungan. Drew is Youth Ministry Coordinator for  the VicTas Synod. Rod brings over 30 years of experience in working with young people and is the current Chaplain at Brentwood Secondary College as well as the Director of Thriving Youth Australia. This elective focuses on two approaches to ministry: The 40 Developmental Assets and Growing Apostles. These tools will be explored and explained to enable them to be used with one young person or with a group of young people.

• ‘Care of the Soul’ - Spiritual Nurture for the People of God

Leader: Joan Wright Howie, Spiritual Formation Advisor at the CTM. As Jesus’ followers, we are called to live ‘in Christ as Christ lives in us’. This is an invitation to attend to the inner movements of the Holy Spirit forming and leading us in the ways of God’s vision for all creation.

an exhibition of artworks
10 June – 31 July 2009

With contemporary systems teetering, foundations shaking and on the verge of collapse, where do we hear the call of the Holy God?  In this exhibition artists attempt to envision holiness in a world where wars rage and devastation strikes. The book of Isaiah provokes art responses for this exhibition, moving from deepest loss to consolation and regeneration. The exhibition presents works in a wide range of media. For more information and theme development go to http://ctm.uca.edu.au/wisdomsfeast.

Prophet and Loss is a contemporary music theatre performance, to be presented in Wyselaskie Auditorium. A unique collaboration between Creative Ministries Network, an agency of UnitingCare, the Centre for Theology and Ministry and an outstanding ensemble of artists, Prophet and Loss will tell the stories of those bereaved by a work-related death, and traumatised by the resulting complex legal processes. Prophet and Loss will also respond to themes and images from the Book of Isaiah; and to the ancient spiritual practice of walking the labyrinth.

Written and directed by Jane Woollard
Music by Deborah Kayser and Nick Tsiavos
Performed by Glynis Angell, Tom Considine, Fanny Hanusin, Helen Morse and Tim Stitz.

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