For Clergy: “Alpha Conversations” 08.11.

An inseparable part of a clergyman's daily life is confirmation instruction, leading and accompanying servants, fellowship, and also conversations with married couples and engaged couples.
Is there a place in church life and mission work for Alpha, pastorates, the Marriage Course, and the Pre-Marriage Course? Is it an additional burden for church workers, or support for the clergyman and an opportunity to involve other church members in ministry?
How many resources does Alpha require, and what is its return? Can Alpha be integrated into catechesis? Does a church, by organizing an Alpha course, lose its confessional identity?
Alpha conversations will take place on Friday, 8 November, 18:00-20:00, at the Teresa parish house near the Catholic Gymnasium in Riga, O. Vaciesa Street 6.

18:00-18:15 What is the experience of Alpha servants?
Rinalds Grants
Pastor of Riga Old St. Gertrude Evangelical Lutheran Church, leads the Alpha Council in Latvia
18:15-19:00 Alpha in the context of the whole Church

Dominik Reifler
Pastor of the Winterthur Reformed Church, introduced Alpha in Switzerland
19:00-19:25 Questions and answers
19:25-19:30 Prayer
19:30-20:00 Conversations over coffee

All clergy are invited, regardless of previous experience in organizing an Alpha course. The event has no participation fee. Advance registration is recommended by writing to konference@alfakurss.lv
Organized by priest Rihards Rasnacis, dean of Madona Roman Catholic parish and member of the Alpha Council. Tel.: +371 29120606

Attention!
Please delegate servants to the Alpha conference by the end of the week, because only until 20 October is it possible to register with a reduced participation fee - Ls 10 (meals included) - and apply for scholarships to partially cover travel expenses.
Registration:alfakurss.lv
Tel.: +371 27012122.
At the Alpha conference we will train new Alpha course leaders, introduce opportunities to organize Alpha outside the church (in prison and in the army), celebrate Alpha's tenth anniversary in Latvia together with servants, analyse failures and give thanks for blessings, and also prepare organizers of the Marriage Course and the Pre-Marriage Course.

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