This morning on Educating Christians I posted on the Belonging Kit, edited by Cheryl Lawrie back in the late 1990s. It was a Uniting Education project designed to help churches nurture young adults into an active reflective faith.
I first met Cheryl when she was promoting her work on mentoring and youth. I invited her over to New Zealand to work with the Presbyterians mostly, though that did spill over into ecumenical gatherings involving Anglicans, Methodists and Catholics. We published an article or two by Cheryl in Crumbs the ecumenical youth ministry magazine.
Cheryl is still in Melbourne working with the Uniting Church Synod of Victoria. Just recently she moved from the Children and Families area into Alternative Worship. Lucky woman! Fancy having the cheek to design her dream job and put it to her employers!
She made it into the Age newspaper this last Easter, with an “unorthodox media” Easter stations experience.
late 1980’s??? i was obviously a child genius…
just read the rest of the entry (should do that first, shouldn’t i!)
it’s still my dream job. i’m very lucky. hope yours feels like that too – at least some days!
(and the Age published another article of mine yesterday, on deconstructionist theology…)