Sessions
Across the training, we’ll explore the theology, stories, and practical outworking behind each practice, helping you grow in a pursuit of justice that is spiritually rooted, personally transformative, and lived out in everyday life.
Alongside foundational teaching, there will be opportunities to dive deeper through seminars and workshops focused on particular practices and justice issues, hearing from experienced practitioners, partner organisations, and others pursuing justice in creative and courageous ways. We hope JLAT will equip you not only in your own journey, but also in helping bring others along with you. Check out the sessions below to get a taste of what we'll be exploring together.
JUSTICE IN THE WAY OF JESUS
Anna Vernon
We will start our time at JLAT understanding what our movement is all about and why we exist: to pursue justice in the way of Jesus, together. We will ready our hearts for God to work in us over the following few days.
PRAY BOLDLY
Jil Weber
Prayer isn’t supposed to be polite, private, and transactional. We’re invited to experience loving union with God through prayer, and it’s from this relational, dependent posture that our prayers for justice can flow. An introduction to the need for intercession and lament as we face injustice in our world.
Love Widely
Judith Holmes
Love can often be seen as transactional, sentimental or reserved for those who are like us. In our world of increasing polarisation and division, we’re invited to live out agape love: unconditional, abundant and free. Stories of cultivating friendships across social divides, hospitality in practice, and welcoming those excluded by society into family.
Serve Humbly
Josh Smedley
Often the way we approach our work, whether paid or unpaid, is frantic, competitive, and self-obsessed - it’s seen as a means to identity, status, pleasure or comfort. But what if there is a different way to view our work? What if, instead, our work was a gift, to be used as humble, sustainable service for the sake of others? Embrace the Bible’s vision of what work can look like.
Live Lightly
Jack Wakefield
Our world is marked by greed, overconsumption and lifestyle habits that disconnect us from the products we buy and the people who made them. We desperately need to be convinced of the Bible’s story of the goodness of God’s creation, the dignity of all human life, and the simplicity lived and taught by Jesus. An invitation to lifelong stewardship and peaceful coexistence with creation and our neighbours.
Change Structures
Tim Lornie
Polarisation, failed systems and the rise of Christian nationalism on the far right - the politics and institutions around us can leave us feeling disillusioned, confused or angry. As Christians we’re called to hopeful realism in our politics and to building systems and institutions that work for the flourishing of all. Uncover how we can tackle injustice from the bottom up.
Give Deeply
Josh Smedely
Money. We can find it hard to talk about as Christians. But when the world pulls us towards greed, scarcity, individualism, and entitlement, we can’t afford to let the Biblical view of how we relate to money slip. Uncover the Bible’s invitation to dependent abundance.
Workshops
You'll also be able to attend a selection of the following workshops.
Pray Boldly Workshop
Dive deeper into the Pray Boldly practice, listening to those who have journeyed the paths of intercession for justice for many years. Ask every question - whether that’s around when prayer is hard or goes unanswered, or how to sustain a life of praying for justice. You’ll leave feeling spiritually prepared for doing justice in the way of Jesus
Love Widely Workshop - Jon Kurht, Hope into Action, Matt Smith & Billy-Jo O'Leary (Safe Families)
Explore some of the ways we’re called to Love Widely as followers of Jesus in this workshop. Hear from practitioners with years of experience welcoming those on the margins of society into community. Engage in conversations around supporting those in the UK care system, or those sleeping rough on our streets.
Serve Humbly Workshop - Josh Smedley & Krish Kandiah
If I’m called to Serve Humbly with my paid and unpaid work, what should I do after uni? And how do it sustainably? Here is a space to ask the key questions of what we can actually do with our time to tackle injustice: how do I choose which issues to tackle, and how can I equip myself now to do that well in the future?
Live Lightly Workshop
“Do I even make a difference?” When it comes to Living Lightly it can be easy to feel small, and hard to know where to start. This workshop will invite you into conversations about some of the things that make the biggest difference to the climate crisis, and caring for those who make what you use and own. Explore how to sustain lifestyle changes with joy and discover how your career or campaigning efforts could leverage huge impact in the world.
Change Structures Workshop with Centre for Theology and Community Team
Reflect on the influences shaping our political discipleship: what are the voices shaping you? Discover how to Change Structures in the way you feel called to: whether that’s working in politics and advocacy or making change in your day-to-day right where you are. Hear from experts working in politics and community organising and get equipped to tackle unjust structures.
GIve Deeply Workshop - Clare Walker, Stewardship
How we relate to money is so important - Jesus talked about it a lot. If we’re called to Give Deeply as Christians, how do we know where or who to give our money to? And are there sustainable ways of doing so, or habits that help us manage money well? In this workshop, you’ll get to dive into discussions about discerning which causes to give your money, and how to build healthy habits around your spending and giving in order to Give Deeply for the long-haul.
Who's leading the sessions?
We'll have various Just Love UK staff members leading sessions at JLAT, as well as guest speakers from partner organisations and experts in their fields. Our guest speakers include 24-7 Prayer’s Jil Weber, founder of The Sanctuary Foundation, Dr Krish Kandiah OBE and climate campaigner Jack Wakefield.
