Evangelical Fellowship in the Church in Wales

EFCW Summer conferences 2012

Issues facing Christians today

The title of John Stott’s book sets the theme for this year’s summer conferences.  Ethical issues, mostly relating to ‘hatching, matching and dispatching’ are constantly grabbing the headlines and, on many of them, we as Christians need to take a considered stand based on a biblical perspective.  We also need to know how to care pastorally for people grappling with such issues at a personal level.  The speakers have experience and expertise in different fields, so the three conferences will each cover different topics.

12^th May

St Mary’s and All Saints Church, CONWY LL32 8LD 

‘Euthanasia – What would Jesus do?’ Derek Munday

An exploration of a growing pastoral issue.

Dr Derek Munday is a retired general practitioner who was involved in the politics and management of health care provision and who led a Christian organisation for Health Care Professionals.  He is a Reader in the Church in Wales.

19^th May

The hall, St Mary’s Church, Malpas NEWPORT NP20 6GQ

‘End of Life care on the Intensive Care unit’   Jeremy Bewley

issues such as organ donation, euthanasia and the ‘right to die’.

‘A Christian approach to palliative care in the hospice’   Nigel Rawlinson

How to share one’s faith with the terminally ill.

‘Christian perspectives at the beginning of life’   Caroline Virgo

Dr Jeremy Bewley has been a Consultant in Intensive Care and Anaesthesia at the Bristol Royal Infirmary since 2001.  He was educated at Monmouth School, where he was confirmed.  He and his family are presently supporting a church graft in Bristol.

Reverend Mr Nigel Rawlinson is Specialty Doctor, Palliative Medicine, at Dorothy House Hospice.  He is also Honorary Consultant Emergency Medicine, University Hospitals Bristol.  He is Director of Student Affairs, University of Bristol.  He is Associate Minister of All Saints Church, Weston, Bath.

Caroline Virgo trained as a Barrister and is now the Director of Hope’s Place, Bristol, a faith-based Christian charity she established in 2005.  It provides support for women and couples with pregnancy related issues, including crisis pregnancy, baby loss and post natal depression.

26^th May

St Teilo’s Church, LLANDEILO, SA19 6EN

‘Sexual  Challenges for the Family and Positive Responses’ Lisa Nolland

‘Kids, Youth Culture and Sex: The Bad News and the Good’ Lisa Nolland

‘Jesus and Sex Ethics’ John Nolland

Dr Lisa Nolland is web consultant for the informative Anglican Mainstream website.  Lisa has a particular writing and research interest in sexuality in contemporary society and especially the challenges this poses for Christians in a fast-changing context.

Rev’d Professor John Nolland, is Tutor in New Testament, Trinity College Bristol and Visiting Professor at the University of Bristol.  John is an Australian with parish experience in the Diocese of Sydney and previous teaching experience in Canada.

Full details of all three conferences can be found on the EFCW website

Dr Derek Munday is a General Medical Practitioner and has considerable experience in local and strategic leadership in the NHS in England and Wales.  He is also a Christian and a lay reader in the Church of England.

As a doctor, you would expect him to know a lot about ill health and approaches to healing.  But  how does this relate to miracles and healing in the life of Jesus, and to the here and now?

Join us at this FREE partnership event run by the Fellowship of Aberystwyth Christian Staff (FACS), entitled:

Jesus then and now – healing and the miraculous

A doctor’s perspective

The event is free, but if you plan to attend, it would help if you could email CICC on info@cicconline.org.uk

The 12.30pm, lunchtime meeting will be held in Room A14 of the Hugh Owen Building, Penglais, Aberystwyth University, SY23 3BY.  The map to the venue is downloadable below.

There is visitors’ parking on the campus.  Once you’ve turned on to the campus, visitor parking is clearly signposted.  Just follow the road until it ends in a pay and display car park. You’ll pass the porters’ lodge on the left, then the Hugh Owen building on the left and some stairs leading up to the Arts Centre, then a car park for staff on the left.  Follow the road around and up and you’ll see the visitors’ car park.

How can churches become communities that envision, equip and support their people to be fruitful on their daily frontlines – wherever those are?

How can we create a missional people? Jesus called his disciples to be makers of disciples and yet, with all the pressures of local church, the core task of moving people beyond conversion to becoming confident fruitful followers of Jesus in all of life – work, home, leisure, church – can be a daunting one.

Throughout this year, Neil Hudson of the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity (LICC) is leading training workshops across the UK for church leaders, leadership teams and all those who want to create whole-life disciplemaking churches. He’ll be exploring the biblical vision, the practical principles and the process he’s been learning in his work with churches of different sizes and denominations across the nation, and offering a clear framework for moving forward.

What are the implications for leaders and disciple-makers who want to create a missional disciple-making community? How can people grown in confidence to make a difference on their frontlines? What helps? What hinders? What keeps it going? What resources can help? And how can you discern the right first steps to take in your own particular context?

Neil draws on the LICC’s eight years of reflection and on-the-ground work with local churches, not only to identify the key theological and methodological barriers to whole-life mission but to offer a workable, sustainable framework for creating a disciple-making community.  The key to the approach is new eyes and so, as they have found, it can be begun without new programmes, new premises, new resources… Come and explore

Naturally, individuals are more than welcome, but, given the nature and vital importance of the topic, it’s often more helpful if leaders can come with others from the same church.

The cost of the evening double-session is £6.  Please register by selecting the venue and quantity below.

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(NB.  CICC policy is for events to be accessible to all.  If, for some reason, you are unable to afford the price of any event, but would want to attend, please email us at info@cicconline.org.uk , and we will register you manually).

Colwyn Bay – Wed, 23 May at 7.30pm

Princes Drive Baptist Church [ map ]

Princes Drive, Colwyn Bay, Colwyn, LL29 8LA

Cardiff – Tuesday, 2 October at 7.30pm

Glenwood Church [ map ]

Circle Way West, Llanedeyrn, Cardiff, CF23 6UW