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Growing Faith course

How can we help children grow in faith?

Drawing on recent research, biblical insights and real life experience, this onsite day course will explore what we as churches, parents, grandparents, educators or other adults can do to help the children we have contact with to grow a faith that will last a lifetime.

About the tutor
Emma Coy currently works as a Mission Enabler for the diocese of Guildford, helping churches with their vision and practice around ministry with children and families.

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Early bird in person ticket #2602 £65

This is a discounted early bird ticket offering the course for £65 rather than £70. This offer expires 60 days prior to the event and cannot be used in conjunction with any other discount. This course will be held onsite at Sarum College and online. The course fee includes lunch and refreshments for those attending in person.

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Early bird in person ticket with B&B the night before #2602 £135

This is a discounted early bird ticket offering the course for £135.00 rather than the normal £140.00. This offer expires 60 days prior to the event and cannot be used in conjunction with any other discount. This course will be held onsite at Sarum College. The course fee includes lunch and refreshments. The extra B&B on 11th June 2025 includes accommodation in an en-suite room and breakfast the morning of the course. If the ticket you wish to purchase is showing as not available, please contact me on bclover@sarum.ac.uk, as we may be able to accommodate your request.

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In person ticket #2602 £70

This course will be held onsite at Sarum College. The course fee includes lunch and refreshments.

Available Tickets: 15

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In person ticket with B&B the night before #2602 £140

This course will be held onsite at Sarum College. The course fee includes lunch and refreshments. The extra B&B on 11th June 2025 includes accommodation in an en-suite room and breakfast the morning of the course. If the ticket you wish to purchase is showing as not available, please contact me on bclover@sarum.ac.uk, as we may be able to accommodate your request.

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Portsmouth CMD ticket #2602 £0

This course is part of the Portsmouth Continuing Ministerial Development programme. Please use this ticket only If you are eligible for a free place and wish to participate in-person. If you need to check eligibility and / or terms & conditions for the booking, please contact neil.smart@portsmouth.anglican.org.

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Salisbury CMD ticket #2602 £0

This is an in person course held at Sarum College. This course is part of the Salisbury Continuing Ministerial Development programme. Please use this ticket only If you are eligible for a free place. If you need to check eligibility and / or terms & conditions for the booking, please contact parishsupport@salisbury.anglican.org

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Details

Dates & Times

12 Jun 2025

10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Course code

2602

Other Notes

This is a onsite course to be held at Sarum College. The course fee includes lunch and refreshments.

Free places are set aside for those eligible for Portsmouth CMD and Salisbury CMD

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What our students say

Stimulating and Challenging

What is Successful Ageing? led by James Woodward

I enjoyed the course immensely from beginning to end – the seamless interweaving of knowledge, ideas and research and the linking with belief and faith.

The content was stimulating, challenging, thought provoking and I was greatly appreciative of the contributions and questions from other participants, your considered and sensitive responses and integration with your presentations.

Thank you!

Netflix, Theology and Pastoral Practice

Peter Butchers on his MA in Theology, Imagination and Culture student experience

How do cultural tropes, like those found in Black Mirror, help bridge the gap between what academic theology espouses and what the everyday Christian believes? In his research as a student on the MA in Theology, Imagination and Culture, Peter Butchers explored platonic philosophy, digital theology and eschatology, and pastoral practice around death and dying.

Rewarding Sabbatical Stay

The Revd Greg Syler, is Rector of Ascension & St. George’s, Resurrection Parish in the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, DC USA, spent part of his ministry sabbatical at Sarum College in spring 2022.

His account of the experience begins: ‘I loved spending nearly three weeks of my ministry sabbatical at Sarum College earlier this year.

Not only did I rest, and rest well in the comfortable care of the Sarum College staff, I experienced very significant renewal and fresh insights.’

The Road Not Taken

Sarum Graduate Mike Truman

January 2022

Five years ago, I told my Warden of Readers that I would not be renewing my licence when it expired in 2019, as I thought my faith was becoming too unorthodox for a Church of England licensed lay minister. As someone who knew me well, she challenged me to actively explore what I did still believe. Thus started the journey that ended last August with the dissertation completing my MA in Theology Imagination and Culture (MATIC) at Sarum College.

Clergy Study Breaks

The opportunity for clergy to get away occasionally from their own context, to have an overnight stay in the beautiful setting of Sarum College and all that the Salisbury Cathedral Close offers is hugely valuable. All the clergy I have suggested who have spent 24hrs at Sarum College have benefit greatly from the experienced mentoring where they can talk, reflect, think, plan and pray.

The support and encouragement they receive is excellent and has a positive on their on going ministry. This is something the Diocese of Rochester encourages and supports financially in preparation for their clergy preparing for Extended Ministerial Development Leave (Sabbatical).

— Canon Christopher Dench, Diocese of Rochester Director of Formation and Ministry

Retreats and Private Stays

When I arrived, exhausted and sensitive, I was grateful not to be asked by Reception were I came from, whether I had had a good journey etc. That was the kind of hospitality I needed: a non-intrusive welcome that was found in ancient cultures and still survives in some societies today, where the host asks questions about a stranger and his journey only when the visitor has rested and been given food and drink.

— guest on a private stay

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