SCOPE
Welcome to our Strandz Community of Practice for Everyone
Our Scope groups bring together amazing children and families ministry leaders from across the country, and gather them around a shared topic and focus. As we head into our 5th year of Scope, we have seen how these relationships have strengthened our national leadership network, sparking new ideas and ministry opportunities within the local church. Scope groups are safe spaces to deconstruct ideas and concepts, reconstruct them with fresh eyes, and look for where the Holy Spirit is at work both in ourselves, others, and in our local ministries. |
SCOPE groups are communities of practice for children and families ministry leaders in the Anglican Dioceses of New Zealand
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Registrations for 2024
We are running Scope later in the 2024, for 10 weeks in July, August and September, and will be sharing more information about this in the future. Feel free to email us to express your interest in taking part.
What's in a Scope session?
Our sessions are informal and interactive, and follow a similar rhythm and pattern each time. They include welcome, prayer, feedback from previous weeks, and then a time to discuss and reflect on a topic from the book we are reading. We want Scope to be really practical, so we are always looking for ways to contextualise and apply the things we are learning.
Scope groups meet roughly fortnightly on Zoom. Each session is 90mins long, and we try not to meet during the school holidays. |
Who's it for?
Scope is open to leaders within the Anglican Church of Aotearoa New Zealand and Polynesia who have a passion and heart to minister with children and families. We love to introduce you to like minded leaders from across the church.
Each participant will receive a Scope box in the post, prior to the community of practice starting, which will include:
* If you have access to the book through your diocesan library, or can hunt down a copy, that will help us keep costs down. Intergenerate participants will have to source a local copy, or borrow a physical or digital copy from the Kinder Library.
Places are limited, and it can be a juggle to find a time that best suits everyone, so thanks for your patience and understanding!
Each participant will receive a Scope box in the post, prior to the community of practice starting, which will include:
- The book we will be reading*
- A reflective journal to process the session in.
- And some other Strandz goodies that will make your Scope adventure fun.
* If you have access to the book through your diocesan library, or can hunt down a copy, that will help us keep costs down. Intergenerate participants will have to source a local copy, or borrow a physical or digital copy from the Kinder Library.
Places are limited, and it can be a juggle to find a time that best suits everyone, so thanks for your patience and understanding!