Living Well - Complete Resource Book

Living Well is a course to be set up by a church or group of churches, aimed at reaching out to those who may have some sense of God, and might well choose to have Christian baptism or dedication for their children, want family weddings in church and expect a Christian funeral for loved ones, but have little other link with the church.

It is also aimed at those who have a regular link with the church through attending clubs and events held there, but who are not church attenders. It provides a way of getting to know those who are on the edges of faith, keeping in touch for a year, learning from them and encouraging them to explore without a sub-agenda of commitment.

Living Well is relaxed, affirming and flexible, centred around a fairtrade, café-style weekend breakfast or lunch, and designed across the full age range, so as to encourage practical community building. It runs weekly for four weeks and then once a month for the rest of the year, so there are fifteen sessions in all, and each session lasts for an hour and a half, including refreshments.

The activities for each session are described in detail and all instruction sheets and handouts ­ attractively designed and in full colour ­ are included on the free CD-Rom, ready to personalise where appropriate and print out.

Rather than teaching directly about the Christian faith, the course aims to offer people from a diversity of backgrounds a fresh way of looking at ordinary daily living, affirming our humanness in the context of God¹s love.
It meets people where they are, opens up possibilities and celebrates the privilege of being alive.