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Training for worship leaders and preachers
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Assembly Accreditation as Lay Preacher
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The preferred route for training is Training for
Learning and Serving
1. Foundation Course
2. Gateways Into Worship
Click logo to see information on TLS page
If you are considering whether God is calling you to be a Lay Preacher, you should talk with your Minister (or if your church has no Minister, with your Church Secretary) and then with your District Lay Preaching Commissioner
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District Lay Preaching Commissioners
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A. East Yorkshire: Jerome Whittingham
B. South Yorkshire: Antony Tomlinson
C. Leeds: Sheila Telfer
D. Bradford: Hilma Wilkinson
E. Wakefield & Dewsbury: John Wadsworth
F. Huddersfield & Halifax:
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Sep'06-Mar'07
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Offered through CLAY
Christians Learning Across Yorkshire
Click on icon
to find details in CLAY leaflet
Visuals, Web & Worship - 18 Jan
Biblical Texts and Contexts - 22-26 Jan
Discussion of "What is the point of being a Christian?" book by Timothy Radcliffe - 6-7 Feb
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A day specially designed by
Yorkshire Trainers with
Bradford Churches for Diversity & Development
for Lay/Local Preachers and Readers
to explore Christian-Muslim relations
through talks, workshops and local visits
21 April at St Augustine's, Otley Road, Bradford
£5 per person
Initially 12 places reserved for URC Yorkshire and for each Methodist District and Anglican Diocese in Yorkshire
URC Local Preachers reserve your place as soon as possible through Mick Maskell
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District Recognition as Lay Preacher
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For those seeking understanding so as to share in the leading of worship, the recommended training is through the five short courses of TLS LITE
Local Introductory Training Experiences
Click the logo to see information about TLS LITE
on the TLS page
Then talk with your Minister. Together you might see if a group could be formed locally to study TLS LITE
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New support for Lay Preacher development
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Decisions at URC General Assembly 2006 mean that there will be new arrangements to support the development of lay preachers and worship leaders
- Assembly is to have a Leadership in Worship Committee to replace the 'Lay Preaching Support Sub-Committee'. The reasons: a) to support Lay Preachers; b) to support other lay people involved in leading worship; c) to encourage members of congregations to become more involved in leading worship
- District Councils will no longer have a place in the URC structure.
- One of the new Synod functions will be "to accredit and provide support and training for lay preachers and worship leaders"
Yorkshire Synod is conducting a process of consultation from October to March about how to implement the new structures of support for local church work. For more about the consultation process see the Synod Good News page.
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Lay Development Fund
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in 2006 to help with costs of further study
Yorkshire Synod started a
Lay Development Fund
URC members may apply through their church
for grants up to half the cost of attending
a training event or short course,
up to a limit of £50.
Not more than three per church in the year,
so as to give more churches a chance.
Click the icon to download the guidelines and application form
or email Mick Maskell
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If you think God may be calling you to help in leading worship or to be a Lay Preacher
talk with the Minister or an Elder of your church
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Some examples of resources for Lay Preachers and worship leaders:
Multi-sensory Prayer by Sue Wallace, publ. Scripture Union 2005
Over 60 innovative ready-to-use ideas
All-Age Warship by Tim Storey, publ. Kevin Mayhew 2005
Peace in your time - a definitive guide to family services without the grief
Wholly Worship Too by Rosemary Johnston, publ. URC 2004, sequel to Wholly Worship
with a CD of material from both ringbinders
More resource material to develop worship in local churches
Just Worship by Active Media Publishing 2005
DVDs of video clips for use in worship
Vol 1: Through words, movement, colours
Vol 2: Christmas & Easter DVD video resources
Vol 3: Celtic Prayer
Vol 4: Twelve Baskets - including a remembrance service with a difference
To borrow these and other items see contact details on Synod Resource Library page
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