Learning Partnerships

YBA Mission Enabler Kezia Robinson writes:
FOLLOWING on from the success of the YBA's first learning hub, we have been planning for a second learning hub partnering with our friends at LICC (London Institute for Contemporary Christianity).
Much has changed since our meeting last February, but the sense that we now, more than ever, need to focus on how we live out and speak out God’s story on our frontlines is with us. The need for people to know Christ is more and more evident as all our other certainties have been challenged.
 
We would like to invite our churches to consider joining a learning partnership and over a two-year period become equipped, energised and mission focussed. The core aims are to:

• Empower Christians to make a difference in God’s world
• Empower church leaders to help them do it 

The partnership will work for churches of any size. The requirement is that you are looking for an in-depth way to equip and enable your church family to live and speak the story of God where they are. 
Our next partnership starts on March 27th on Zoom. If you are interested in joining or would like to explore more of what is involved, including dates, cost and who should attend, please get in touch with me on kez.robinson@yba.org.uk or call 07791 878260.  

There will be input from former BUGB president Ken Benjamin, who is LICC's Director of Church Relationships and Neil Hudson, former  LICCDirector of Church Relationships, plus coaching through your regional team.

Kezia adds: "We hope that through the partnership, a creative and inspiring learning environment will develop that leads to long-term sustainable change within churches and worshipping communities, both as they gather and as they scatter.
The programme aims to help participants realise the vision for a church which joyfully embraces its call to be communities of disciples who are living as adventurous followers of Jesus Christ.
The  programme will give church leaders, lay and ordained, and their congregations the space to grow in confidence and courage to live out their faith in the whole of their everyday lives. 
I hope to hear from some of you soon and start this exciting journey of equipping and resourcing together."

Here’s what others have had to say about it:-

• Fruitfulness on the Frontline (LICC) has been and continues to be a blessing to me personally and also I feel to my church family.
   
• I have been greatly encouraged, especially seeing some very small churches participate and work out how they can have a part in being more fruitful.
   
• We are growing in confidence to go and tell, go and share Jesus wherever we are and whatever we are doing on our frontlines - working in an office, refuse collecting, managing a leisure centre, looking after grandchildren, supporting a poorly relative or neighbour, community cafe, toddler group, Scouts, hours of volunteering and so on.