God has given us Biblical and legal responsibilities to nurture and protect children in our care. Knowing and practising these responsibilities is a vital part of enabling children to come to Jesus.

This course is compulsory for anyone in Anglican ministry who is working with people aged under 18.

Wondering if you should be a leader? Or maybe you already are! How do I approach being a leader? What should I do? This subject will equip you with biblical ideas and ways of leading, whatever ministry you're connected with.

This is a completely revised version of a very popular equip subject. Be prepared to give an answer, with gentleness and respect, to everyone who asks you to explain the reason for the hope that you have in Jesus.

Jesus stressed global mission in his final words. How can I involve my church in it? Come and learn about Biblical perspectives; how not to do mission; counting the cost; the role of the local church; and available resources. Get some hands-on tips to help motivate your church to partner in God's world mission.

Find out how to be involved in evangelism without being an ‘Evangelist’! Discover the whole range of activities through which all Christians can ‘promote the gospel’.

A holiness course that makes a real difference! How does Jesus' finished work couple with the ongoing work of His Spirit to yield holiness in the hard areas of prayer, sexuality, work and anger?

Stimulate a passion that is Biblically based and practically driven for reaching out to newcomers. Multiply your welcoming strategies!

Goal: Improve skills and knowledge for playing in a contemporary church music band.

Content: Specialised trainers will both train instrumentalists on their particular instrument as well as make up a top quality demonstration band. Participants will be given opportunities to play at points throughout the course, and will be encouraged to organise at least one band practice between sessions. Participants will learn:

• How to make a band sound professionally produced
• How to play in a variety of styles
• How to work with other instruments to create complementary parts
• How to arrange music to suit lyrics

Goal: Improve mixing skills to maximise the effectiveness of music and speech in a church service.

Content: A hands-on mixing course, in which participants will learn:

• Theories and principles of mixing — how to make a contemporary band sound great
• Goals, constraints, character issues and ‘who are we serving?’
• Balance of channels, role of EQ, compression and reverb, plus any other useful effects
• Practical projects including a studio-style mix done on some multi-track recorded audio, burned to disk for others to hear

Goal: Improve knowledge of the fundamentals of music to help perform more skilfully and knowledgeably in leading congregational worship music.

Content: Participants will learn:

• How to create interesting and sympathetic counter-melodies in a variety of contexts
• How to understand the way chords fit together in a key and apply this knowledge to better understand and perform songs
• Rhythmic awareness, to help in accurately reading and playing complicated rhythms, as well as awareness of different rhythmic feels
• How to create simple and effective harmonisations of a melody line

Goal: Improve skills and knowledge for leading a congregation in singing.

Content: The course is aimed not simply at equipping people for singing up the front of church, but for providing pastoral leadership of a congregation. The course will involve a reasonable amount of singing each week, plus videoing and reviewing people's efforts at song leading. Participants will learn:

• Vocal technique appropriate for leading a congregation in singing
• Presentation principles and techniques
• Biblical understanding of the role of song and leading of singing
• Practical skills for introducing songs