The Magnify group from St Peter’s Walworth and St Paul’s, Lorrimore Square (top) and the Magnify group on the St Helier estate (below).
The Magnify course is currently taking place in three hubs around the diocese, with another hub about to start, and several more in the pipeline.
Estates people taking the message of God’s love to estates people in parishes up and down the diocese is our dream and the idea behind the new estates lay pioneer course, Magnify.
Estates Lay Pioneers are people who come from estates, know the estates, and are able to engage in culturally relevant outreach on the many estates in our diocese.
Travel, food and childcare costs can be provided for participants.
What is Magnify?
Magnify course is designed to be the course that reaches the parts other courses do not reach. No previous qualifications or educational achievements are necessary. It consists of thirty two-hour sessions spread over a year with 6-8 participants plus two facilitators meeting in hubs around the Diocese.
The style of learning is highly participatory, and group based. There are no formal assessments or written exercises.
What is in the course?
Term one is all about who we are in Christ. It begins by looking at the story of our own lives, before considering what people said about Jesus and what he said about himself. It moves on to consider who we are in Christ as flawed but loved people, members of God’s family, called to be fruitful in his service.
Term two is about sharing the faith. It begins by looking at the community the participant comes from and them by means of the Church Army faith sharing course, considers how our story of faith and the story of Jesus life can be share with the communities where we live.
Term three is about living as an ambassador for Christ in our communities, our families and our workplaces.
What next?
If you are someone who might be interested in finding out more or if you are an incumbent who might be interested in sending someone on the course please contact Gary Jenkins, Dean of Estates Ministry, who is overseeing this project: [email protected].
