This conference, which is being run by the Congregational Learning Team of the Church of Scotland, is now sold out – a good sign.

The venue is Inshes Church of Scotland, Inverness.

The intention is to concentrate on information, and development of skills, which will be useful to churches which currently have “few or no children and young people” in them.

There are several workshops available in 3 separate blocks throughout the day. These include:

• Creatively sharing the Gospel with primary aged children
• The First 5 Steps (to seeing more children and young people in your church)
• Mentoring Young People
• Spiritual Styles
• Messy Church

You can access the online handbook for the conference, which contains more details.

We intend to report back on our experience and learning from the conference.

4 Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is one. 5 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. 6 These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. 7 Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 8 Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. 9 Write them on the door-frames of your houses and on your gates.

Deuteronomy 6: 4 – 9