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Discovering Faith in Later Life

Where did the DFiLL series come from? 

Mike has been working with older people since his commissioning in 1976. Based on Mike's experience he convened a Church Army group made up of evangelists engaged in ministry with older people. Together they soon became aware of the lack of written resources and models or working with this age group. It was this challenge coupled with his study for a Masters Degree in Applied Theology that prompted Mike to research and visit what seemed to him to be innovative ways of working with older people. 

The DFiLL series is a resource to motivate, challenge and encourage the wider church to take the spiritual needs of older people seriously. The series also engages in some theological reflection to assist leaders to think theologically about the work they are doing and to think about how a mission-shaped church might respond to the ever increasing older population who no longer have experience of church, or indeed lack a basic understanding of the Christian faith.

Issue to read online	Issue on PDF to download	Subject
DFiLL9	DFiLL9_Abbeyfield	Assisting Spirituality in Residential Estabishments
DFiLL8	DFiLL8_UrbanMission	Urban Mission and Older People: Stories of Sheffield Churches responding to the challenge
DFiLL7	DFiLL7_RegenerateRise	Reaching the ISolated Elderly: Mission in an Urban Context
DFiLL6	DFiLL6_SAGA	What church for the SAGA generation? Cultural shifts in the younger old
DFiLL5	DFiLL5_HolidayatHome	Running events for older people during the summer holidays: part of a mission strategy or just a good idea?
DFiLL4	DFiLL4_OutlookTrust	Christian Hope and Encouragement for Older People
DFiLL3	DFiLL3_PSALM	Developing work with and for older people in the Edmonton Episcopal Area
DFiLL2	DFiLL2_StStephens	Christ to elderly and lonely in East Twickenham
DFiLL1	DFiLL1_Parche	Pastoral Action in Residential Care Homes for the Elderly

The series has inspired the wider church to follow-up and promote work with older people in their own areas. Please download as many issues as you want - there is no charge and you can print off as many copies as you want to for training days that you may be thinking of running. On request to the Sheffield Centre we can send you hard copies for which there will be a small charge.

Church Amy has been working with older people for over 120 years, and is a founder member of Age Concern England and Friends of the Elderly. With this long tradition, Church Army is one of the few mission agencies that take evangelising older people through words and action seriously by sharing faith in very practical ways, mainly by building relationships and even developing fresh expression of church for older people.

For more information please contact Mike at ask@sheffieldcentre.org.uk.