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Course helps you listen to calling

Life Calling

Available for Lent, Life Calling is a five-part course using clips from popular films alongside Bible readings, prayer and group activities to help participants reflect on the meaning of 'vocation', stressing that all Christians are called to explore their gifts and passions, and to use those in the service of the Church and the wider world.

Life Calling published by Church House Publishing has won praise from world-renowned leadership expert John Adair: "Life Calling will help the members of any local congregation to discover – or rediscover – for themselves the meaning of Christian vocation, in general and in individual life and work. It's a course that I for one have long waited to see."

Arranged in 90-minute sessions, the course explains that careful, meditative reading of the Bible, regular prayer, keeping a reflective journal, listening to friends and family, and being open to the insights that come from God's action in daily lives, can help guide our futures. Using these methods, participants are encouraged to create a Personal Action Plan to help them continue to explore what God is calling them to do in their own lives – both at work and at home – to further His will on earth.

Vocations Sunday, marked on the fourth Sunday of Easter (13 April 2008), is a day set aside for particular reflection on what God might be calling people to, and the Life Calling course could be timed to culminate on this date, in time for a special celebratory service or other event.

More details of Vocation Sunday are available on the website www.cofe.anglican.org/vocsunday.