SEITE open evenings

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SEITE, the college I have been studying with for the last 3 years, is soon to hold some open evenings. It’s also one of the few colleges that offers a pathway for Ordained Pioneer Ministry which I have been a bit of a guinea pig on. It’s a good course, but also demanding!

SEITE is hosting three Open Evenings in the summer term from 5:30pm so that you can meet some staff and students and check out for yourself what studying at SEITE might be like. These are scheduled for:

Monday 2nd June at the University of Kent at Medway
Tuesday 3rd June at Southwark Cathedral, in the Gary Weston Library
Tuesday 10thJune at Southwark Cathedral, in the Gary Weston Library

To book yourself into an Open Evening, please contact the administrator who will send you directions and all other necessary information administrator@seite.co.uk 01634 846683

Wake Up

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Up and coming new indie band Lo-Star have just released their debut single in support of the Burma Campaign UK. Their new song ‘Wake Up’ was written by the band to tell the world that it’s time to take action on Burma. The profits from the single will be donated to the Burma Campaign UK to help us in our work for human rights and democracy in Burma.

The Daily Star has named it their single of the week, saying, “We should all still go out and buy it. Why? Because all the proceeds go to the Burma Campaign. Fortunately, it sounds quite lovely too. The lyrics “We gotta wake up, we’ve got to realise that something needs to be done” sound all the more poignant alongside the affecting video of the protesting Burmese people.”

Download the single now and help raise money for the Burma Campaign.
You can buy the single on iTunes:

Simply to sing a song about freedom and democracy in Burma is an arrestable offence, with a penalty of up to 20 years in jail. While the Burmese people are silenced, the rest of the world can speak out.

Watch the video here

Wake Up is available in the shops from March 24th.

Thanks for your support.

Anna Roberts
The Burma Campaign UK

tired but buzzing

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I’ve just returned home from a very long day in Basingstoke.
Despite the long day and tiredness, I’m buzzing so I can’t sleep quite yet.
This morning 25 church leaders turned out to hear about how they could support Basingstoke YFC, and this evening around 19 youth leaders came to a similar meeting. It was exciting to see so may people turn out because they care about the young people in their area.

I can’t help but feel privileged to have been part of today as we have heard of great dreams and a desire to work together to reach young people. It’s exciting, too, to see Luella the director being used powerfully by God to get things moving – and today she made some amazingly valuable contacts.

Exciting things are happening and are going to continue to happen in this town.

Living Hope

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We are trying something new at St Marks this coming Saturday, which will be Easter Eve. I have taken a rough ‘stations of the resurrection’ outline and asked various individuals and groups to interpret a particular biblical scene of the resurrection and illustrate it through a media of their choice.

I have been impressed and surprised by the take-up and there is going to be a great range of creativity on display. Someone is producing a cartoon image, someone else a poem (which I had the pleasure of reading today and is superb), another person is writing a song, someone else painting … the list continues. Individuals, friends and family groups are being creative.

If you are in the Medway area why not pop in this Saturday – or if you think you would like to contribute please feel free to get in touch as it’s never too late!

canon law cn be fun!!!! (or what have they done to me!)

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I’ve just completed another SEITE weekend and the end of the course is now scarily in sight.
This weekend we were looking at issues with Canon Law and although that sounds bring it was actually a very interesting weekend and I learnt quite a lot of good practical stuff. I’ve arrived home pretty tired now though!
It was also an excellent weekend for catching up with friends – and for grabbing a great curry on Saturday afternoon.

Swindon YFC role

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another good job worth looking at – this time with Swindon YFC:

SENIOR SCHOOLS WORKER
We are looking to appoint a Senior Schools Worker to join our innovative team of workers. Applicants will help de-velop our exciting and growing work in local secondary schools and colleges and support various initiatives to involve, encourage and reach out to the young people in our town.
The successful candidate will be somebody who has: A lively Christian faith and calling to youth ministry An ability to relate to and communicate the gospel effectively to young people The skills to plan & deliver assemblies, lessons, & lunch clubs and develop pre-exclusion work, mentoring, chaplaincy and
an extended schools programme Skills to lead, inspire and develop our volunteers and year out team
Pay will be in the range of £18.5-£20.2k according to experience. An application form & job description can be obtained from:
Swindon Youth for Christ, P.O. Box 2352, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN2 1WE
Tel: 01793 829795 Email: office@syfc.org.uk
Closing date: 25th April 2008

Do you have time?

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Maggie has been blogging excellent about the Archbishops being in Cambridge. There has been a lot of good stuff so if you have not read it you should have a look. This post in particular shows how privileged we are in having our Archbishops.

a mad few days

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It’s been a mad few days which has left little time for blogging, or reflecting on what is going on around me at the moment. It’s also been an important few days.

On Tuesday I met with good friends. I met up with a friend for lunch, had a tutorial with another and then a couple of pints. As we sat and chatted I realised how disconnected I have felt recently being on placement and rushing from one task or meeting to another.

Last night I became chair of governors of a local school that, when I thought about it, realised I have been connected with since 1996 – it’s amazing how the time has flown! I’m looking forward to this new role and hoping I will be able to support and challenge well.

Today I met up with great people from the diocese 2 of who will be supervising me from September and 2 who are responsible fro my ongoing training. This was a good time as people were honest – I was told to get off my high horse which I need to hear sometimes! It was refreshing to hear as well! I’m excited about September (if a bit daunted still by the whole ordination thing) but I can see the diocese are really putting in masses of effort to gt this to work.

IN between those meetings and experiences I have manged to get loads of YFC admin tasks and phone calls done that have been hanging there and screaming for attention.

In all a mad few days but a good few days.

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Chislehurst YFC vacncy

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This will be a cool job with a great line manager!

Youth Worker for Chislehurst YFC

South East London Area

We want to see local young people’s lives changed by the transforming power of the love of Christ

Are you passionate and enthusiastic about evangelism?

Do you have a calling to unchurched young people?

Chislehurst YFC is pioneering work with unchurched young people in the local area through schools, clubs & detached work. We are looking for an experienced youth worker to work alongside our Director in building upon existing work and launching new projects.

We are seeking a passionate and committed Christian for this exciting role. You will be led by the Holy Spirit, keen to take initiative, adaptable and ready to work with challenging young people without judging them. Ideally you will have worked with marginalised young people but you will need a heart for all young people regardless of background.

Salary £18,000 – £22,000 depending on experience

For further information, copies of the job description
and application details contact Lyndsay Smith on

07767 867761 or chislehurst.yfc@btconnect.com

Closing date 22 April 2008 CYFC 102 High St Chislehurst Kent BR7 5AG

Burma action needed – please respond!

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Email UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon now calling on him to go to Burma.

On Monday 10th March the UN Envoy to Burma, Ibrahim Gambari, left Burma empty handed after the regime rejected every proposal he made for restoring democracy in Burma.

It was the 35th visit to Burma by a UN envoy in the past 18 years, and there has not been a single reform to show for any of them. In fact, the human rights situation has got much worse.

We can’t have another 18 years of suffering in Burma, another 18 years of torture, rape and ethnic cleansing.

It is time the UN woke up to the fact that this regime has been lying to UN envoys for almost two decades. It does not want reform and it is not interested in democracy.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon should take over the process. He should have the backing of a binding Security Council resolution, which under international law will force the regime to reform.

Take action here:

Thank you.

Anna Roberts
The Burma Campaign UK