Church & community development; reflective, collaborative ministry; training for clergy and laity; consultancy for ministry and mission
Avec Resources, originally a group set up by Avec in association with the Grail, is now a small Charitable trust (trustees). It offers:
• BOOKS and papers about:
- working with as well as for people in groups, communities, churches and organisations
- in-service training for clergy, religious, deacons, deaconesses and laity
- work and vocational consultancy for ministry and mission
- applied theology
- promoting reflective, contemplative operational and collaborative ministry
- self training
Books are managed and sales are organised by the Revd David W. Read, who also offers a consultancy service in a private capacity.
• ARCHIVES which have accrued from action-research, training and consultancy programmes related to church and community development work covering the period 1966 to 2007 and from the life and work of T.R. Batten.
The methodology developed by George Lovell and Avec underlies the MA in Consultancy for Mission and Ministry taught at the York Institute for Community Theology.
