Book your place on our online day for Baptist chaplains
Monday 17 April 2023
I am really looking forward to our chaplains' day on Monday 17 April and I hope to 'meet' many of you online that day!
You can now register. As last year, there will be three standalone sessions, each one on Zoom and lasting approximately 1 hour 45 minutes. They will start at 10am, 2pm and 7pm. You are welcome to register for one, two, or all three sessions.
(If this button doesn't work, please copy and paste this link into your browser: https://www.baptist.org.uk/Articles/622117/A_Day_for.aspx)
Those who have registered will be sent joining details and Zoom links in the week before the event.
Please do pass on the details or forward this email to anyone you know in your network who may be interested. The day is free and is for anyone within Baptists Together who acts as a chaplain in any capacity, regardless of accreditation status, hours spent each week in chaplaincy, or sector (or who maybe thinking about becoming a chaplain.)
Our keynote speaker is Revd Dr Mark Newitt, the Free Churches Secretary for Healthcare Chaplaincy and part of the chaplaincy team at both a hospital and a hospice in Sheffield. Mark's theme is Ritual and Liturgy in Everyday Encounters. Mark will help us define what ritual and liturgy is and isn't, and then explore how formal and informal ritual and liturgy provides one way of responding to pastoral, spiritual and religious need.
The day will be structured as follows:
1000-1145 Session 1. Some reflective worship led by the Eastern Baptist Association regional team; a video-story from a chaplain; an interview with Diane Watts, BUGB Faith and Society Team Leader; and then a chance to meet, encourage and pray for other chaplains from your own sector in breakout rooms.
1400-1545 Session 2. Worship led once more by the EBA regional team; a second video-story from a chaplain, and then Mark's keynote address on Ritual and Liturgy in Everyday Encounters.
1900-2045 Session 3. One final act of worship and one final video-story; followed by a panel and breakout rooms to delve more deeply into the subject opened up for us by Mark Newitt in the afternoon.
I do hope you will be able to join us. However, if you are no longer involved in chaplaincy and would like to stop receiving communication from the Ministries Team about chaplaincy, please let me know by emailing ministries@baptist.org.uk
On behalf of the Baptists Together Chaplaincy Forum,
Grace and peace,
Tim Fergusson
Ministries Team Co-leader
tfergusson@baptist.org.uk
