Events

This time we will be thinking more about working with children and young people on the margins including those who are refugees and those with additional learning needs. We’ll also be considering students who identify as LGBTQ because, whatever our own personal or theological views, if we’re working with young people in schools and in churches we will be working with some who are exploring or struggling with these sexual identities and with many who have friends, or sometimes parents, who are. The emphasis will be on how we support young people in the pastoral work that many youth workers, chaplains and mentors do in schools and colleges.

Helping us will be Gemma Dunning, a mum and Baptist minister from London.

Gemma has both undergraduate and postgrad qualifications that focus on applied theology and also a JNC in youth work. Gemma has ministered within a wide range of contexts but more often than not finds herself called to the margins to walk alongside others who are excluded, rejected or oppressed and often find themselves outside of the established church.