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Watch yourself

Watch your thoughts, for they become words.

Watch your words, for they become actions. 

Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.

Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.

(Author unknown)

Contributed by Rev Akasha Lonsdale

 

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iConnect
Issue 148 : 29 January 2012

Greetings! 

 

This week's bumper iConnect is filled with amazing opportunities for growth and development.  There's a senior staff team vacancy serving all our ministers.  An enquiry about ministry with young people.  And an amazing list of events offered by interfaith ministers around the world throughout 2012 (including Egypt, Morocco and Mexico). Such wonderful richness and talent exists within our community

 

With blessings to you from Lindsay, and on behalf of all the staff team
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Staff vacancy for Community Facilitator

 

arms givingInitial expressions of interest are invited for an important vacancy in our staff team.  Rev Tim Pickles is stepping aside in 2012 from serving our community in this role and the trustees are embarked on a process of succession planning.
 
The Community Facilitator post was created in 2008 to set up the IMA and develop the community that comprises all our ministers. Since then, the role has evolved and now includes responsibility for aspects of operational management, strategy, communications, national profiling, and financial planning.
 
The Community Facilitator works very closely with Nicola Coombe, the Seminary Leader, and is part of the team with Lindsay, Danielle and Deirdre. 
 
This is an important role that will be offered on a flexible and negotiable basis. Full details are available on our Vacancies page. Initial expressions of interest, in the format proposed on that page, should be sent to the Chair of Trustees in confidence by 1 March 2012.
Also in the news this week

Student minister Jonathan Chuter is keen to make contact with ministers working with young people, devising programmes for teenagers or young offenders. This may be the direction of his future ministry. Please email him directly to share your interest.

Student minister Frinny Grant visited Auschwitz last week, shortly before the Y1 training weekend, and has written a moving account of her visit. Holocaust Memorial Day is 27 January.

Rev Akasha Lonsdale will be appearing again on the BBC Radio 2 show Sunday Morning with Aled Jones on Sunday 19 February, between 7.40 and 8.00 am.

Further relevant suppliers have been added to our listing of Recommended Suppliers for ministers.

A prayer request has been posted for Kim G. (login required to maintain confidentiality.)
 
Amazing events around the world in 2012
It's amazing what interfaith ministers get up to! Just check out these offerings from Findhorn to Somerset, from Egypt and Morocco to Mexico, all happening this year.

Login to post your events to the Calendar for listing here.  

Community Prayers, every Monday 

 

14 February: Only the mystics will survive, Abingdon

 

24-26 February: Trans-Form, Minehead

 

2-4 March: An Interfaith Experience weekend, Stroud

 

3/4 March: Peace and Quiet retreat, Edinburgh

 

15-30 March: Egypt: The path of the heart - a pilgrimage through the sacred sites, Egypt

 

24-31 March: Heart of Being - a week-long retreat, Mexico 

 

7-10 April: Into Christ Consciousness, Findhorn

 

11-14 April: GreenSpring walking break, Buxton

 

1-3 June: Awakening retreat with Miranda, London

 

9/10 June, Convocation 2012, London

 

13-17 June, Men's Rites of Passage, Perth

 

29 June - 1 July: Walking the story of the universe, Somerset

 

7-9 September: The Men's Room, Thirsk

 

September: Entering the Silence - a desert experience, Morocco (contact Freya Kennedy)

 

6-13 October: Annual retreat, Iona

 

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Faculty Leader: Nicola Coombe

Gracevine Editor: Sarah Flynn

Administrator: Lindsay Jarrett

Community Facilitator: Tim Pickles

Finance Officer: Danielle Wilson

 

If you are unsure whom to contact, please e-mail Lindsay who will direct your message appropriately. 

 

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