Equip Sunday Seminars 2023

Equip is a four-week seminar series run each year as part of our vision to equip God's people at Highfields. This year they will take place in-person, and will include some time altogether as a church as well as time in your chosen seminar series.

Seminars will take place place from 5:00pm to 6:15pm (with full kids and youth tracks) and followed by a time of worship all together in the chapel from 6:30pm.

This year's Equip will consist of the following seminar tracks:

1. Beasts, Battles and Babylon:
   How the apocalyptic literature of the Bible points us to Jesus
   Venue: Triple Room
2. Being Human:  
   What does it mean to have a body? To think rationally? To be creative? To live with the reality of death?
   Venue: Chapel
3. Heroes and Heretics: 
   An overview of the Early Church (the first six centuries)
   Venue: Double Room
4. Parenting MOT: 
   Raising the next generation for Jesus in a confusing world (with 'Growing Young Disciples' team, Mel Lacy & Pete Wright)
   Venue: Coffee Lounge
   
   

Here’s a short video to whet your appetite:

Children and Youth - Equip 2023:

The children & young people's programme will run slightly longer than the adults off from 4:45pm to 6:15pm to enable you to make the most of the seminars you are going to. The sessions end with a time of worship in the chapel at 6:30pm.
Venue: Children - Pierce Hall; Youth - Dalton Street

• Please note children under 11 are to bring a packed tea with them.
• Places are first come first serve and you must sign up by Sunday 15th January.

We would love as many children as possible to attend their session but this is dependant on how many leaders are available to serve. You will be emailed by 20th Jan 2023 to confirm your child's place.

Living a better story
Our culture's storyline is preached to us in every Disney film, Oscar's speech or University graduation speech. 

"On the day we were born we were as pure, authentic and as real as we could ever be, but as we grew up authority figures messed us up. Our parents, our teachers and religion messed us up. So, our mission in life is to be true to ourselves and to do whatever makes us happy.
* We have to be the hero of our own story
* We have to be free from any authority including religion
* We have to live without regret or compromise".

This is the reason why it can feel really crazy to live our lives restricted to what the bible says. However, we need to ask the question, has our culture's storyline delivered on its promises? This generation is considered by many to be the most hopeless, the most lonely, the most broken.

At Equip for Children and Youth, we want to suggest to you that there is a better story to put your life into. A storyline of great hope, of deep connection and of everlasting freedom. Come along and find out more!

Upcoming Sunday seminars in this series: