Local Mission – Training and Events

This GIFT Advent event resource provides a range of ideas to encourage the sharing of Advent rituals and traditions that have been passed through many generations and an opportunity to make new ones.

by Tania Nelson

It’s that time of the year when we start making plans for the new year ahead. Here are a few training opportunities and events that might work for you.

In recent decades, we have lived through a significant shift in the ethnic mix of our society, and we now have a new mission field right in our own backyards. 

Did you ever stick your neck out? Giraffe was a youth leadership training program of the Lutheran Church of Australia that began in 1983.

Are you lamenting the lack of families in your congregation? Are you wondering why families aren’t engaging with your congregation like they used to?

What does it mean to form faith in children and youth? What seems to work best and why? Is your congregation looking to rethink your ministry to children and youth?