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Join us for a presentation and a café discussion with free drinks & snacks.

Crypt Café
st marys church, upper street
islington, london, n1 2tx
Angel or Highbury
buses 4, 19, 30, 43
parking on single lines or side street possible
hosted by Wood Green Mennonite Church

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Throughout the centuries women have “passed on the comfort” by creating blankets and quilts. These have given warmth in time of crisis: sickness, mourning, and war. During the morning hours of this seminar we will be looking at the story written in the book Passing on the Comfort (An Keuning-Tichelaar and Lynn Kaplanian-Buller). An was a member of the resistance movement in the Netherlands during WWII. Just after the war ended, she provided sanctuary for Mennonites fleeing from Russian forces.

North American Mennonites heard of the need for comfort and sent hundreds of quilts over to England. They were dispersed to Holland from a house on Shepherds Hill, run by the Mennonite Central Committee, just a few doors down from where the LMC is now. Decades later Lynn discovered some of these quilts in An’s house and decided their story needed to be told. Thus the book was written.

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Introduction

Conflict is normal and inevitable – but Christian leaders often feel ill-prepared to handle conflict in the church. The Skills Training Course for Mediation and Facilitation for Senior Church Leaders is designed to equip leaders with practical skills for responding constructively to conflict. This acclaimed five-day course explores conflict within us, between individuals and within the church. The course aims to raise self-awareness, to develop understanding of conflict and to teach methods to facilitate resolution and transformation of conflicts, particularly through the development of mediation and facilitation skills. Although focussed primarily on the church setting, the skills learned are transferable to other areas of life.

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Much popular contemporary spirituality is a quest spirituality, mono-polar in its primary direction, with the primary goal of connecting with one’s depths, attuning oneself with essential humanness and shared universal humanity. Traditional Christian spirituality is bi-polar - “to know one’s true self and to know the true God,” said Augustine. Jesus, unlike his followers, did not teach a bi-polar spirituality of such individual encounter with God as the goal of the inner life. He was utterly clear, unequivocal, in teaching authentic tri-polar spirituality — discovering and knowing the self by knowing and loving God through the experience of loving the neighbour who images God.

Description:

Join us for a presentation and a café discussion with free drinks & snacks

Crypt Café
st marys church, upper street
islington, london, n1 2tx
Angel or Highbury
buses 4, 19, 30, 43
parking on single lines or side street possible