Training

It is changed people who change the world. If we are serious about transforming society, then we need to get serious about being transformed ourselves. We believe that intentional training, which develops the whole person, is absolutely essential to a better future for both the church and society. We offer training to everyone in the church in a range of ways, many of which are explained below.

We want to keep developing what we offer, so if you have either an unmet training need or a new idea for offering training, we’d love to hear from you!

Firstly, we believe that personal mentoring is a God-given key to personal development. We offer every church member a ‘personal pastor’, who will help them to grow in all kinds of ways, and we also provide coaching for many of our volunteer leaders.

Secondly, we run a range of courses

• Alpha: for people enquiring into the Christian faith, or just getting started in it
• Partnering for purpose: for people asking how to get the most out of church life
• Preparing for Marriage
• Into Action/Esther Challenge: for people wanting to develop spiritual discipline

We have a particular focus on training leaders and offer some excellent leadership training in keeping with the resources and standards that have been developed by the Salt & Light UK training team. This includes training for emerging leaders and for people preparing to take on more significant responsibilities, whether in the church or the world.

The Salt & Light UK training team also offers a range of more advanced courses in theology and specialist ministry, and many of these are actually run by OCC members and take place in Oxford.
 

In particular, we are privileged to host ‘King’s Theological College’, which offers a 10 month full-time course, leading to a university-accredited Certificate in Theology.