Bulletins

Online Learning: Soaring in Your Strengths

Vital Connexions has over 25 years’ experience offering training in counselling, couples counselling and counselling supervision. Their latest course is designed for those who want to enhance their skills as a strength focused practitioner. The theoretical base of the course draws on second wave positive psychology, strength based interventions and what the Bible says about …

Planning for Brexit

As you may be aware, the UK Government has now reached agreement with the European Union in relation to citizens’ rights in its negotiations concerning the UK’s withdrawal from the EU. This is good news as it will provide certainty to millions of EU citizens and their families in the UK. EU citizens who have …

Pastoral Supervision – you what?

Mary Jo woke (as many ministers like her), a little later than usual since, after all, it was her day off and after a jampacked Sunday, she enjoyed the guilty pleasure of still being in her jammies knowing that everyone else was long up and off to work. With a cuppa in her hand she …

Leadership

“We’re not comfortable with leadership language in the church. It’s a toxic phrase.” This comment was made during a group discussion I was part of at a Council of Assembly Roadshow last November. I was the only minister in the group and the comment came from an elder who has many years of experience at …

Ascend & Support

When I started in Ministries Council (now Faith Nurture Forum) the word of the hour was ‘flourishing’. It has been a central theme of that year’s General Assembly report. I found myself wondering: what does flourishing actually look like. The wellbeing of those in ministry has been a fundamental question I have considered when developing …

Who you are matters

It was not long after we had started in Ministries when Gabby and I met in coffee shop just off the M8, pretty much halfway between Edinburgh and Glasgow. We had come from various conversations and consultations from around the Church. We sat there with our coffee and were fairly overwhelmed. Stories from up and …