Diocese to Offer Forum on Church-School Partnerships

Diocesan News, Education, Front Page • May 5th, 2016

Does your church want to make a difference in your neighborhood?
Does your church want to reach children and families? 
Does your church want to join the Jesus movement?

Presiding Bishop Michael Curry is calling the Episcopal Church to go into the neighborhood. One way for our congregations to do that is to build a relationship with the public schools in our neighborhoods. But many of our congregations don’t know how to start, or don’t know how to take the next steps in building the relationship.

Join the All Our Children National Network (allourchildren.org) and The Episcopal Diocese of Western New York on May 20 & 21, 2016 at St. Paul’s Cathedral, Buffalo to learn about the growing movement of church-school partnerships.

Participants will visit the sites of active school partnerships in the Buffalo area. Workshops will outline the steps to building a new church-school partnership or delve into ways to sustain and develop existing partnerships. Event leaders will help you develop specific action steps to take back to your congregation. And of course, you’ll make contacts and personal connections to help build local and regional networks.

This Forum is for you if:

• your church has an existing church-school partnership and you want to learn more and connect with others
• you want to learn how to start a church-school partnership
• you want to learn what a church-school partnership is
• you care about children
• you want to connect your congregation with your community

Featured Speakers:

• The Rev. Gay Jennings – President of the House of Deputies of the Episcopal Church
• The Rev. Brenda Girton-Mitchell – Director, Center for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships, U.S. Department of Education

To find out more and to register go to aocbuffalo.blogspot.com.