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Nexus newsletter
As someone has said what goes around, comes around. I have just spent a productive couple of days at a writers’ ‘retreat’. Five of us where on a farm out of range of mobile coverage and internet. We were writing a series of studies that could be used by lunchtime Christian groups in high schools. It was being done under the auspices of Scripture Union.
Nigh on thirty years ago I had been involved in the very same activity albeit nowhere near a farm…
A few things have changed in the interim! The groups these days, although still coordinated and resourced by Scripture Union are no longer ISCF but Fuel, Pump, Tag and the like. (Rather like IKEA.) The audience we were writing for this time were more than likely to be quite unfamiliar with either Christian concepts and/or the Bible.
But the real change, certainly in metropolitan schools, is the absence of the Christian teacher as ‘ISCF Counsellor’ – or as we’d say now – group leader…
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