The Church of Ireland Diocese of Connor

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Session plans

Planning a session with your young people? Check out the resources below:

Faith Practices

I AM resource

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The Jesus Sessions 

The Jesus Sessions was developed by Christina along with Ava Jordan-Curasi and Tim Burns.  This is an eight-session guide which gives a foundation to look at the life and ministry of Jesus. The resource looks at themes like fullness of life, Jesus’ justice and generosity.  Download The Jesus Sessions

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Pursuit

Pursuit was developed in partnership with Love For Life and supported by funding from the Church of Ireland Priorities Fund. This resource encourages young people to pursue character traits which will shape them to reflect God and have a positive impact upon all their relationships.Each participant will get a workbook and there is a separate Leader’s Guide to help leaders deliver the sessions. Copies are free and you can get yours by contacting Christina at the email address above.

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Faith, Hope and Love can be used in a series of three or as stand-alone sessions. Everything within the sessions is optional to allow for choice for what would work best for your group.

Faith    Hope    Love

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Life in Rooms session is a stand alone session.

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Here you can down load four sessions which can be used together considering What the Bible says about…..
Being good;    Happiness;     Identity;    Injustice;   Church

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Connor Youth Prayer Journal Ideas

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Parent & Youth Event Resources – ideas to put into practice when thinking about linking in parents/guardians with your youth programme.

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Shaken Leaders’ Guide is a youth leaders resource to accompany the Shaken resource, to access this please contact Christina Baillie directly on christinabaillie@connordiocese.org.

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The Story of the Bible (Leaders’ Resource)

The Story of The Bible_ Leader Resource Part 1
The Story of The Bible_ Leader Resource Part 2

This is a resource with 12 sessions to provide a background and understanding to the overarching story through the Bible to help young people to understand and contextualise scripture.

• Session 1 – Introduction
• Session 2 – Law and DisOrder?
• Session 3 – An Israelite History
• Session 4 – Poetic License
• Session 5 – Prophets: major key?
• Session 6 – Prophets: minor key?
• Session 7 – Life and Times of Jesus
• Session 8 – A Church History
• Session 9 -Dear Church, from Paul
• Session 10 – Dear you, from Paul
• Session 11 – Dear all, from me
• Session 12 – All Together Now

The resource will provide a range of optional activities and teaching tools for each session. Please tailor this to suit your group and the young people attending. Many of the ideas will be repeated or continued through the 12 week sessions including craft, scripture memorisation and discussion questions.

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Faith and Doubt are follow up resources for anyone who attended sessions at the Connor Takes the Castle weekend 2018, but can also be used by groups who did not attend as an introduction to exploring asking questions and doubt.

Faith & Doubt Resource Part 1

Faith & Doubt Resource Part 2

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Illustrations

Illustrate your Faith- Ecclesiastes 3v11
Illustrate your Faith- Exodus 14v14   
Illustrate your Faith- Psalm 47v8