Village Shepherd

This year, we've been running Alpha courses for the first time in our group of parishes. Alpha is a course designed for non-churchgoers and teaches the basics of Christianity in about ten sessions. It's very much a "people-driven" course, for although a teaching video is shown at each session, this is followed by discussion. The video is just a starting point, and the discussion often wanders way off topic, onto those questions which particularly interest people. So the discussion always follows the direction decided by the people in the group.