Of-the-shelf plans for use in Local Preachers' Meeting. Each session is designed to take around an hour, but all can be adapted to suit your meeting.
Creation Care - A Biblical Imperative
Why do we care about creation? Dr Ruth Bancewicz of the Faraday Institute helps us explore what the Bible has to say about our relationship with the whole of the created world.
Worshipping Biblically in a Climate Emergency
How do we worship faithfully and biblically in a time of unprecedented and threatening climate change? Dr. Richard Baker provides some ideas to get us started.
A Methodist Way of Life and Worship
A session plan by Revd Dr Roger Walton with activities and discussion ideas relating a Methodist Way of Life to our worship leading and preaching.
A Methodist Way of Life / Bible Month on Mark's Gospel
Helpful discussion-starters grouped around the four areas of Our Calling, highly appropriate for connecting MWoL with the current lectionary gospel.
A session plan by Revd Dr Tim Woolley looking at three preachers from our Methodist story. How do their stories connect to ours? Prepare to be inspired!
The Positive Working Together guidelines provide resources to resist bullying and harrassment and promote a culture of positive working. How can we as preachers and worship leaders influence the culture of church positively through our reflection on scripture and faith? Gary Hopkins' session plan offers some ideas.
Justice and peace are at the heart of the gospel message. But how can we engage with these issues in our preaching with integrity? This session, produced in association with JPIT, explores some ideas for engaging with the issues in the worship we lead.
Sharing our Story - including testimony in worship
Methodists have always encouraged each other by sharing our experiences of faith and life. How do we encourage this to happen in our worship? This session by Revd Paul Wood and Revd Ian Worsfold provides a chance to try out a range of ideas that might work in the churches in your circuit.
Worship & Whole-life Discipleship
As Christians, we seek to live for Jesus wherever we are, whatever we do. Here's a session by Ed Mackenzie and Tony Moodie focussing on how to connect the worship we lead to the life we live as disciples of Jesus.