Neighbourhood Chaplains
Neighbourhood Chaplains aims to equip and encourage a church team to share their faith with people in their local communities.
Are you considering setting up Neighbourhood Chaplains in your local area?
Neighbourhood Chaplains connects local churches with their communities through new, practical ways that befriend and help to meet their neighbours’ physical, emotional and spiritual needs.
Counties offers an initial training programme so your team will feel equipped to go into your local community, as well as offering ongoing training sessions throughout the year.
Register for Inform and Inspire today!
Designed for churches who are interested in learning more about Neighbourhood Chaplains.
Register for the next "Inform and Inspire" free 1hr Zoom webinar event.
Through training and scheme membership,
local churches are equipped to:
Make contact with new people in the community
Deepen community links opening opportunities for the Gospel
Offer practical support and help to those in need
Click to watch an introduction video from our partner Cinnamon Network
Local Churches Equipped
We hope you’ll join the growing number of local churches discovering Neighbourhood Chaplains. Together we have the potential to become one of the most significant tools enabling churches to make Jesus known in every county!
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What is the Gospel?
Emma’s Story
What happened when one of our local church teams met ‘Emma’? Watch our 3 minute video to find out why and how local church volunteers serve in their communities.
Upcoming Training
RUN and GROW are for churches who are looking for a refresher or taster into what Neighbourhood Chaplains offers.
Team Training Course
£
Voluntary Donation
per team
- Counties is a Christian charity dependent on the generous and sacrificial giving of many people. Counties is very grateful to its supporters who enable this work by offering funding to churches. It costs on average £750 to raise a Neighbourhood Chaplain team in a church and £625 a year to support them in their local mission. This means in the first year its £1,375.
- Delegates will learn:
- Biblical models for mission
- Understanding the gospel
- Listening skills
- How people come to faith
- How to share faith confidently and appropriately
- How to pray and network more effectively
- Safe practice.
- Your Church receives:
- Delegate's Workbooks for team members
- Team Leader's handbook containing a wealth of information and templates for church policies and procedures
- Regular webinars
- Branded t-shirts and Identification lanyards
- Private Team Leaders forum
- Two copies of ‘Jesus’ by Michael Green, an ideal book to giveaway
- Samples of tracts and postcards
- A few copies of 'Hope' magazine to giveaway
- Chatnow cards , introducing an online resource to your church
- A copy for each team member of a how-to-share-your-faith book 'Intentional' by Paul Williams
- Promotional pens for your church
- Samples of other promotional materials for your church
- A pack of greeting cards and introductory postcards to giveaway
- Donation
- If you would like to partner with us in making Jesus known and you are able to make a voluntary donation (£300 is an 80% saving on the first year) please give what you can. You can enter any amount you wish to donate on the donation page. Most churches choose to support the work. The support covers a team of any size; we recommend a minimum of 3 people. For larger churches with bigger teams we invite you to make a higher donation. A church can receive the support without donating and every church receives the same level of service. Choose your dates from Upcoming Training and follow the instructions to donate. *
Frequently asked questions
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The Team course is a live video meeting hosted by Counties with guest speakers. It has two 2-hour sessions on consecutive weeks, with a Delegates Workbook on which the course is based. Printed delegates’ workbooks will be posted to the Team Leader along with bonus resources and the Scheme Handbook. This comes with guidance, templates and procedures to help you launch.
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Sorry, but no, we run these sessions 5 times a year. The course is live, which means you log in to the group video sessions. The sessions will not be recorded. If you miss one, you will be able to attend the relevant missed session at the following training course.
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Yes, the course primarily seeks to train a Team, so we recommend the Team Leader bring all your team members to both sessions. The course covers a team of any size; we recommend a minimum of 3 people. For larger churches with bigger teams we invite you to make a higher donation.
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Access for the Team Leader to:
Counties Support Team to develop required policies and procedures before launch using our Team Handbook.
A private forum to solve the real day-to-day problems you're facing.
Unlimited team access to:
Neighbourhood Chaplains branded Uniform purchases.
Fantastic range of Neighbourhood Chaplains branded greeting cards for purchase sent free of charge with options to purchase more. Each with a printed greeting and space to add your own details.
Gospel Tracts, contact cards and books to give away.
The Team Leader will be given a password to our website for our Scheme Church toolkit and they will be invited to join the private NC Team Leaders chat group.
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We will send you a password. Keep that login and use it to access the Scheme Church Toolkit.
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We would love it if you could, but use is for the church registered only. If you want to invite some other church in place of you, contact the Counties support team directly via email and we'll set it up that way. Please allow 48hrs for response Mon-Fri.
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We'd love to help. Just send us an email allison.smith@countiesuk.org
Our helpful team will get back to you as soon as we can, usually within 3 working days Mon-Fri.
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