You are invited to our online Playgroup Celebration and 2024 AGM on Tuesday 15 October from 7.30pm (EST). Would love to see you there. All welcome – church leaders, playgroup leaders, playgroup team members, and more!
As part of the night we will
– have our 2024 Annual General Meeting. Grab a cuppa and have a read of what the last 12 months has looked like for the CPN community in our 2024 Annual Report.
– reflect through an interactive devotional time around the theme of being Linked to Christ. BEFORE THE EVENT please print the downloadable devotion (a black & white or colour option below), cut out the strips, bring the strips as well as a stapler/glue/tape and markers to the event.
Download your Paper Chain Devotional to use during the segment here.
downloadable black and white devotion here
downloadable colour devotion here
– have a Guest speaker Dr Louise Gosbell share with us about ‘Welcoming Families with Additional Needs into Playgroup’.
Dr Louise Gosbell is a researcher, writer, and trainer in disability ministry and theology. For over 15 years, Louise served as the Sydney co-ordinator for CBM’s Luke 14 program training churches and Christian organisations in disability and inclusion. Louise has published a book and numerous articles and book chapters on various aspects of disability including writing a set of disability inclusive guidelines for churches in the Sydney Diocese of the Anglican Church. She has recently worked with the Canberra diocese to create a resource for that diocese also. Louise lives with a neurological disability and is the parent of a child with disability. Louise and her husband Mark have 3 grown-up daughters and, coincidentally, the same number of cats.