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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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