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 ECG SEMINAR 13-14 MAY at AidRom Bucharest  Summary:

 

The Future Focus will be on a Model Training Programme for Community Action in association with CABLE (Community Action Based learning for Empowerment)

 

Projects:

 

(1)  Community Economy

       

        Possible Partners - Inter-Diak, CERN, AidRom

        Owners: Tony Addy     Mihail Brinzea and AidRom associates.

 

(2)  CABLE - International Training Programme - Wrking with marginalised Groups

       

       Already in Progress

       Owner :  Tony Addy     See Home and Theology Pages

 

(3)  Religion in the Workplace

        

        (i) Chaplaincy -  Owners: Ian Winterbottom and Gharib Harutyunyan

 

      (ii)  WIRE (Work, Integration and Religion in Europe  - Tony Addy    

 

     (iii) Decent and good work - Precarious work -

 

             Owners - Jean-Pierre Thevenaz, Klaus-Peter Spohn-Loge, in association with Inter- DIAK and ILO

 

      (iv) Oikotree

 

               Owner - Antonella Visintin      

 

 

 

 

ADVANCED NOTICE: 

 

INDUSTRIAL MISSION ASSOCIATION (UK)  NATIONAL CONFERENCE  30 APRIL - 2 MAY  2012

 

The Conference will be based at Woodbrooke,the Quaker Study Centre, Selly Oak Birmingham. Part of the Conference will be looking at different form of Christian engagement with the City through visitsand meeting people, and then a more reflective  part looking at how a changing church and changing church approaches to mission affect us  and how we are as chaplains and ministers/missioners.

 

For further queries and information contact philipjones@faithatwork.org.uk

 

n.b. Birmingham is the UK’s second city with a population of over 1 million.  It s an immigrant city drawing in people since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. It is soon to be the first city in the UK with no dominant ethnic group. It has the UK’s largest local authority, several universities, and an industrial sector which is slowly recovering from a difficult recent history. It has a good number  and  variety of workplace   chaplaincies

 

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