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Training Workshop
Saturday January 31st: Sheffield, UK
 Join us from 10am for a day-long workshop at St Thomas, Philadelphia Church, Sheffield, England.Craig Greenfield will share stories and songs of freedom and justice, as well as looking at the Biblical basis and practical outworking of the 5 principles of Servants: community, incarnation, simplicity, holism and servanthood.
This workshop is for the serious and curious, anyone considering working amongst the urban poor, in the UK or in Asia.
Schedule:
10am: Welcome and Introduction to Servants
10:30am - 12:30: Session 1: God's Preferential Option for the Poor and the Upside-down Kingdom.
12:30 - 1:30pm: Lunch
1:30pm - 3pm: Session 2: Jesus in the Slums: relocating amongst the poor. The Solidarity Continuum.
3:30pm - 5pm: Session 3: Servanthood: the pitfalls and the principles. How to serve without stripping people of their dignity.
Facilitator:
Craig Greenfield is the International Coordinator of Servants to Asia's Urban Poor and the author of "The Urban Halo". For 6 years Craig and his wife Nay lived amongst the urban poor in the slums of Cambodia, working with Servants and establishing a ministry reaching hundreds of AIDS orphans.
Since 2006, they have been pioneering a new Servants team and intentional Christian community in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, Canada, working with the homeless, and people struggling with mental illness and addictions.
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