Training & Development

Show me your ways, Lord, teach me your paths.
Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long.

Psalm 25:4-5

Let’s learn & grow together!

We strife to provide learning opportunities to our church members, to equip volunteers with the training they need for serving the community and to encourage the use of resources for spiritual growth.

Learn more about…

Safeguarding Training – Building a safe community for all

Church Life & Ministry – Resources and education for those leading and serving at the ACF

Spiritual Growth – Deepen your personal faith

Safeguarding Training

Safeguarding training is an important part of the Church’s commitment to making Churches safe through the promotion of good preventative safeguarding practice. It helps building a safe community for all by sharpening our senses for recognising safeguarding concerns and providing us with the skills to react appropriately.

All those who are part of the ACF team are required to take part in the safeguarding program by the Church of England.

If you are serving at the ACF…

Complete the Confidential Declaration Form (download here) and return it to our Safeguarding Officer (safeguarding@anglican-church-freiburg.de).
Consult this table to find out which trainings you are required to do.
Set up an account with the Church of England’s training portal.
Complete the required courses and forward the certificates to the Safeguarding Officer.

Thank you for investing your time and talent into our church community and for helping us making this church a safe place for all!

Our Safeguarding Officer will assist you if needed and answer any questions you might have. Contact them via safeguarding@anglican-church-freiburg.de.
For further information see the diocesan safeguarding training page. and read the ACF’s Safeguarding Policy

Church Life & Ministry

Church of England Webinars

The Church of England are offering a range of webinars on topics like digital communications, pastoral care, practical ideas for the church year, giving & generosity and caring for creation. Their training resource page is well worth a visit!

Intercessions

Leading intercessions during worship

Lord, teach us how to pray – Intercession pointers for the ACF by Rev Christopher Parsons
Leading Prayer through Intercession – A guide by the Church of England
World in Prayer – A weekly summary of international news with accompanying prayer by the Episcopal Church of St. John the Baptist, Lodi, California, USA
Weekly Worship – prayers and song suggestions for each Sunday, following the lectionary by The Church of Scotland

Compline

Leading Compline on zoom

Attending zoom meetings – adjust screen view settings, share your screen, share your sound
Daily Liturgies – from the Church of England (To access the prayers for a different day click on ‘more options.)
Book of Common Prayer Offices – with ready-to-play chants by the Mission of St. Clare

The easiest way to use one of these liturgies:
1. Open the page on your browser window (& any additional webpages in other tabs).
2. Resize your browser window (Make it narrower to have the sidebar dissappear)
3. Increase the text size for more readability (Windows: “Strg” and “+”, Mac “Command” and “+”)

Youth & Children’s Ministry

Youth ministry resources – collected by the Diocese in Europe
The Youth Ministry Network – For people involved in youth ministry who are full time, part time and volunteers in international English speaking Anglican churches.

Spiritual Growth

Alpha

Alpha is an 11-week course that creates a space, online or in person, where people are excited to bring their friends for a conversation about faith, life and God.

Theological Learning

Visit our Media Resource page for all sorts of great podcasts, videos, and more to further your theological learning.

Icons: Child care by Adrien Coquet from the Noun Project / Missionary by Adrien Coquet from the Noun Project / Volunteer by parkjisun from the Noun Project