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R18 Final Issues Weekend

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Final Issues Weekend

What is this Weekend all about?
Useful resources for Final Issues
The Student Spot
R18 Programme

Resources Addition Form
Contributions to this page

Welcome to the R18 Final Issues Weekend web page. This page is designed to provide useful resources relating to the sessions covered in R18 with WEMTC. If you have found useful resources or have questions you would like ask, please do contribute.

What is this Weekend all about?

This weekend enables a year group to reflect on ministerial and formational development over the length of the course and with the help of core staff and post-ordination training colleagues, develop ideas and strategies towards ordination and future ministry.

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Useful resources for R18

Books

The following are core books for this weekend:

Allan, P. et al. The Fire and the Clay SPCK 1993
Cocksworth, C. & Brown, R. Being a Priest Today Canterbury Press 2002
Countryman, L.W. Living on the Border of the Holy Morehouse 1999
Ramsey, M. The Christian Priest Today London, SPCK 1972
Irvine, A. Between Two Worlds: Understanding and Managing Clergy Stress Mowbray 1997
Wilson, K. (ed) The Experience of Ordination London, Epworth 1979

For more detailed bibliographies see our Final Issues Booklists.
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R18 Final Issues Web Resources

You may find the following web sites helpful for discovering more about Final Issuess and contemplative prayer. Material on the net has no quality control making tutors very wary - and rightly so! Nevertheless there is a growing amount of first class work on line. Treat with care and you'll find it very useful.

The Internet is not 180% reliable and documents move, disappear and change their names. If you find a link does not work, try again in an hour, a day, or a week. But do feel free to email us to report a link doesn't work. Don't forget to tell us the name of the link! Sorry I haven't had time to find resources yet See the general religion links as a starting point for your own searching

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The Student Spot

This spot is for contributions from those who are doing or have done R18. It needs your contributions - books that have been helpful, questions you would like answered, adverts for things related to the module etc. Content is monitored by the webmaster with reference to the tutors and class reps if necessary. Click here to submit something for the page.

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A sample R18 Ordinands Weekend Programme

Please note that programmes are constantly being revised and the actual content of your weekend may look rather different.

Preparation

Issues you would like discussed at the weekend should be forwarded to Mike asap. You are welcome to invite those who have supported you through training to the valedictory service and to lunch. Please let us the Office know in good time.

Programme

Friday
6:30 Arrive
7:00 Dinner
8:00 Session 1 - Issues in Ministry I
9:15 Night Prayer

Saturday
8:00 Worship
8:30 Breakfast
9:15 Session 2 Issues in Ministry II
18:45 Coffee
11:15 Session 3 - The Voice of CME & POT
1:00 Lunch
2:30 Session 4 - Words from the Other Side
4:00 Tea
4:15 Session 5- All Good Things Come to an End
5:45 Break
6:00 Worship
6:30 Dinner
7:30 Social Evening organised by Second Years

Sunday
8:30 Breakfast
9:15 WEMTC Notices
9:30 Epistles
11:00 Coffee
11:30 Valedictory Eucharist
1:00 Lunch

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Contribution to this Page

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The Full Module Description for R18 Final Issues

Code and title

R18 Final Issues Weekend

Brief description

Level and Credits

Contributes to F181 Ministerial Formation or V181 Vocational Discernment

Status

Core for Ordinands and Methodist Foundation Students

Type

Standard

Prerequisites

Workbook with texts from ordinals and confessional/ecumenical statements on ordained ministry.

Restrictions

Open to Ordinands only

Content summary

This weekend will cover:

Exercises and group work to enable students to reflect on their past ministerial development.
Opportunities to explore in a variety of ways, including creative expression and liturgy, their journey together.
Workshops/talks by post-ordination educators, such as CME officers, on future developments in their ministry.
Workshop introducing the experience of two past students now ordained
Group work exploring their own preferences, hopes and fears.
Time-management and pastoral support of clergy issues.

Learning outcomes

By the end of this weekend students should:

a) Knowledge and Understanding

Understand the importance of attending to 'endings.'
Be aware of the importance of pastoral care of clergy.
Understand the structures and opportunities for post-ordination training.

b) Skills

Know how to build a framework for their own pastoral care after ordination.
Have a perspective on their ministerial development and on crucial events during the course, in the light of expected ordination.
Be prepared for ordination and any further practical steps to be taken before ordination

Teaching and learning

18 hours
7 hours class contact
3 hours personal study (prior reading, self reflection, discussion in Formation Groups and with Tutor)

Assessment

A self-reflection exercise in prescribed format

Indicative resources

Allan, P. et al. The Fire and the Clay SPCK 1993
Cocksworth, C. & Brown, R. Being a Priest Today Canterbury Press 2002
Countryman, L.W. Living on the Border of the Holy Morehouse 1999
Ramsey, M. The Christian Priest Today London, SPCK 1972
Irvine, A. Between Two Worlds: Understanding and Managing Clergy Stress Mowbray 1997
Wilson, K. (ed) The Experience of Final Issues London, Epworth 1979

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