Community Transformation: dream or reality?

Taking its inspiration and content both from Dave Andrews’ most recent book Compassionate Community Work and the work of Livability (formerly the Shaftesbury Society) and Tearfund with churches in the UK, this event will include a mix of teaching, reflective activities, sharing, personal time, optional workshops and fun. Choose your level of participation according to your need at the time.

What you can expect:

• Characteristics of Christ-like community work
• The chance to share and learn from your stories and hear from others
  
• Practical, down-to-earth theology (including the trinity as a model of community development)
  
• Skills-based workshops led by practitioners
  
• Reflective activities and personal time to think and pray
  
• Fun evening activities
  

Dave Andrews is a Christian community worker, currently based in Australia and with much experience in India's slum communities. He has authored many books on community development, notably Not Religion but Love, Christi-anarchy and recently Compassionate Community Work. He started several community ministries that work with disadvantaged people both in Australia and India. If you want to learn about community development from someone that both knows the theory but more importantly has a life modeled on it then Dave is that person.

What others have said about Dave:

“Dave is an extraordinary individual. He is arguably the most outstanding community development worker, both theoretically and technically, to have graduated from this department.”
Tony Kelly, Senior Lecturer in Community Work at the Department of Social Work and Social Policy

“There is one thing you need to know about Dave Andrews. He is dangerous. For example, after Indira Gandhi was shot, two or three thousand people were killed in twenty-four hours in the riots that followed. Mobs rampaged through streets looking for Sikhs to murder. Dave convinced Tony, a friend, that it was their job to go out and save these Sikhs. Finding a besieged house, they put themselves between an armed mob and a Sikh family and saved them from certain death. That's why Dave Andrews is dangerous. He is ordinary, yet believes ordinary people should take extraordinary risks to confront the cruelty in our world."
David Engwicht, Author of Eco-City

Single room: £175/person including all meals and en-suite room
Shared room: £125/person including all meals and en-suite room
Special discount: £30 off if you book by 15 June
Booking essential.