Thursday, 8 March 2012

Yea! Just the Place for a Community Conversation

Jill Allen, Manager for Anglicare Victoria Hume Region, is delighted to announce that plans are underway to host a Community Conversation in Yea on Tuesday, 27 March at the Yea Shire Hall. The workshop will run from 6.00 – 9.00pm and a light supper will be provided throughout the evening.

The Conversation will focus on the experiences of the young people and children in Yea and surrounding communities.

“Healthy communities have a good idea about what is happening for their members, including our children and young people,” said Jill “Our conversation will explore a series of questions that will generate energy and focus our attention to what really matters in the hearts and minds of our young folk.”

Community Conversation: What’s it All About?

Communities discover what they care about through conversation. Conversation is part of life and it’s an important part of community building. In conversation, we not onlydiscover what we care about, we uncover new ideas for building healthy community.

The conversation will be facilitated by Jill, who has chosen a ‘global café’ structure for the workshop. The global café is a simple method for hosting conversations about questions that matter. Conversations link and build on each other as people move between groups, cross-pollinate ideas and discover new insights into issues.

During the conversational process the ‘global café’ can evoke and make visible the collective wisdom of the group, thus increasing the capacity for effective action.

We hope to discover together trends and directions in the conversations which will later enable the community to make decisions about future directions.

“There are lots of opportunities for people to get involved and make the conversation a memorable event.”

ENDS

For media information contact:

Jill Allen

03 5721 9088

jill.allen@anglicarevic.org.au

Please pray for

 

SUSAN MARGARET HALL

CAROL HOGG

CHRISTINE SUSAN PAGE

SANDRA ELIZABETH TEMPLE

 

to be ordained

to the holy order of deacon

 

by John,

Bishop of Wangaratta

 

in the Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity

 

at 11am on Saturday

the 3rd of December 2011

 

 

 

“You have called me here to be repeatedly born in the Spirit... in light, in knowledge, in unknowing, in faith, in awareness, in gratitude, in poverty, in presence and in praise.”

Thomas Merton Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander.

 

Refreshments follow in the Cathedral grounds.  All welcome.

  

What Is Christmas About To You?

 

We each have our own ideas about what makes Christmas special to us but most of us agree that it is based on caring and sharing.
 
In the spirit of Christmas and the spirit of this great little town St Luke;s OP SHOP will be providing Christmas Hampers to those in need this Christmas,

 

St Luke’s Op Shop is all about COMMUNITY and has been an important part of Yea for many years; it responds to community need and provides the Anglican Parish of Yea with a revenue source for ministry activities and the opportunity to build, strengthen and develop community. We always welcome new volunteers to the Op Shop and we are privileged to have a great team of over 35 locals who share their time at the Op Shop.

 

Registration forms for Christmas Hampers are available at the Op Shop and our volunteers will be happy to assist you with them if you feel you have a need. We hope that hampers will be available for pick-up to all registered recipients from Sunday 18th December - Thursday 22nd December 2011. This is not about who is worthy and who is not, everyone has a different perception of need and of course there are also many levels within that.

 

So our principle is simple, it is based on caring and sharing to assist everyone to have a good Christmas.

 

If any businesses or individuals would like to offer donations of any kind – (time, products or cash) we would of course welcome any extras as that will allow us to give more, to care more, to share more in our community.