Flourish is about all churches recognising God's call to work with schools- so that children and young people, communities and churches can be transformed and flourish in all aspects of life, both physical and spiritual.
Flourish aims to
- help and inspire churches to recognise that God is present and at work in their local schools and invites us to join in.
- encourage and resource circuits to build relationships with their local schools to enable mutual flourishing.
- Offer support, as churches get involved in schools, to share, learn, grow and inspire each other.
- Build confidence to enable churches to recognise their many resources to engage with schools (experience, time, skills, prayer, buildings, finance, love)
- Encourage churches to prioritize, wherever possible, those communities where people are experiencing economic poverty or are marginalised.
There will be more resources added over the coming months, so please come back to visit the pages!
A Prayer for our Schools
God, who leads us on in the journey of faith,
we pray for our schools:
for those for whom they are places of learning and growth;
for those for whom they are places of vocation and service.
May we have the faithfulness to pray for them,
the wisdom to know how to serve them,
and the humility to contribute to their common life with grace.
May we all know the blessing of growth,
and the fulfilment of a life of curiosity, wonder and joy.
Amen.