Just People: the Micah course
Ever wonder what would happen if your church took ‘acting justly, loving mercy and walking humbly with God’ (Micah 6:8) seriously? We’d like to invite you to join us in finding out.
As part of the Micah Challenge UK, Tearfund and Shaftesbury have developed a course for churches to use to help them discover how tackling poverty and pursuing justice, both locally and globally, are at the heart of Christian mission. We have called it Just People: the Micah course.
We’re running two workshops to equip you to run this course at your church. These days will be fun and interactive and we will take you through the material, how it works and answer any questions you have. You will also get to meet people from the previous courses that we have run.
15th September- London (St Mark’s, Battersea Rise, SW11 1EJ)
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10am-4pm
£10/person to be paid on the day (lunch included)
28th September- Leeds (St Matthias, St Matthias Street, Burley, Leeds, LS4 2DZ)
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10am-4pm
£10/person to be paid on the day (lunch included)
Who do I contact?
Jill Clark at Shaftesbury
jclark@shaftesburysociety.org
0207 452 2018
Your questions answered…
What's the aim of Just People?
Both Tearfund and Shaftesbury share a passion to equip local churches to put this into action. This course brings together down-to-earth theology, reflection, inspiration and experience with practical exercises. It will help your church grapple with issues of justice and poverty and think practically about how they can respond effectively as an integral part of their mission. It has been developed as part of the Micah Challenge UK, a coalition of Christian organisations and churches in Britain, united in their concern to fight poverty - for more log on to www.micahchallenge.org.uk
Has Just People been tested?
Over the last year, we have run seven pilot courses in total, with about 300 people completing the course so far. At each stage have reviewed and reworked the material with the help of feedback. The overall feedback has been extremely encouraging and has highlighted a need for the course.
One delegate on a pilot course had this to say:
"Attending Just People has started me on the journey, from just thinking and talking about Integral Mission, to actively pursuing and living it every day. The course hasn’t provided all the answers, in fact it has posed a great many more questions, but it has clearly identified Gods calling to me to express the Gospel with integrity in every aspect of my life, to fight for justice both globally and locally”
What is Just People like?
We’ve used a well-tried and tested model of food, input and small-group discussion and added a crucial element of practical action by asking each person to do something each week and report back on how it went. There are six sessions and we ask the church to undertake a practical 'day of action' as an integral part of the course.
What are you asking of us?
We are planning to launch the all-singing, all-dancing Just People: the Micah course around Easter 2008 but would like to run a final wave of pilots in the Autumn 2007. We are interested in whether your church or network would be able to run a pilot? We will give you the six session plans so you will not need to prepare the material for the course.
What do I do if I’m interested?
Please attend one of two training days in September for anyone interested in running
