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Welcome
I hope you find the latest blogs below of interest, please pass on to colleagues and/or use the material in your bulletins. This newsletter is stored here for ease of linking if you want people to access all the information.
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Grace,
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Marketplace Renewal |
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4 people share their journey into Business as Mission
BAM is about creating, managing for-profit, sustainable firms intentional about Kingdom of God purposes -addressing economic, social, environmental, spiritual needs of unreached or vulnerable people.
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Chicken City
At Pollopolis, they buy, process, and prepare food products like fried and roasted chicken. Today, they have 14 locations in the south-central area of Honduras with social impact for families and communities.
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In-Person - Supporting mental health with compassion and confidence - 9am 17 Nov - London
NHS Training. The session has been designed to help church staff and volunteers feel more confident when supporting people who may be going through complex mental health and social challenges.
Together we will think about some of the struggles people can face, how different parts of someone’s life can affect each other, and how we can respond with care while still looking after ourselves.
The session will also explore setting healthy boundaries, calming tense situations, and will include a simple case study to make the learning practical and relevant to everyday church life.
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Online - Stories for Change: The power of stories to help us see our communities differently and listen to our neighbours - 11am 18 Nov
Church Urban Fund - Join us for an hour of reflection on the value of listening to one another’s stories, plus practical ideas and inspiring examples for using stories to bring projects alive, empower communities, and uncover hidden treasures.
Jesus used stories to teach his followers about the kingdom of God and spent time listening to people’s stories. When we take time to listen to the stories of others, and to share our own story, we deepen understanding, strengthen relationships, and transform our imagination about what is possible.
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In-Person - How to Make Disciples - 9:30am 19 Nov - 4pm 20 Nov - London
Workshop from Sustainable Discipleship
Have You Ever Struggled with Discipleship? Does your team have a simple, solid plan for making followers? Do you struggle to get people to that next, deeper place? Is there not enough of you to go around?
Do you long for more than home groups and lunch clubs? Do you feel like you are reinventing the wheel, again? Does discipleship make your brain hurt?
Make self-sustaining, self replicating followers in a simple, repeatable way! It’s all about the ‘how to. The method makes the difference.
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In-Person - The John Stott London Lecture 2025 - Creation care: mission or mission drift? - 7pm 20 Nov - London
Kuki Rokhum challenges the global church to integrate creation care into its missional theology and practice – without compromising the centrality of Christ.
As the climate crisis deepens, creation care is racing up the UK church’s agenda. As just one example, A Rocha’s EcoChurch programme now has over 8,500 registered churches with more than 4,100 EcoChurch awards achieved, showing depth as well as breadth of engagement. Does this demonstrate the recovery of a biblical priority which the church had lost? Or is it evidence that the church has drifted away from its primary call to evangelism and adopted a contemporary secular agenda?
If, as surveys suggest, many young people’s greatest fear is the climate crisis and the future of life on earth, should we proclaim a gospel of rescue and escape from this earth – or is demonstrating hope in Christ for the planet’s future our greatest apologetic opportunity?
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Online - Staying Human: Useful Lives? - 6:30pm 21 Nov
Dan Hitchens will ask what the advance of assisted suicide really means. Dan will address the profound cultural shift signalled by current legislation, marking a transition from the era of Cecily Saunders and the hospice movement to a new age where death is presented as a solution to what some advocates refer to as ‘useless lives.’ Setting the contemporary debate in its historical context, Dan will prompt us to consider how we should respond to this hinge moment for British society.
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In-Person - Leadership at the Threshold - 9:30am 2 Dec - Oxford
For leaders shaping unity and transformation in our towns and cities. If you’re involved in church, charity, or city-wide mission, this day is for you.
Designed for those leading local movements or working on the ground in urban settings.
“In such a fast-changing and increasingly spiritually open world, the leadership of God’s Church is at a threshold moment. Old certainties are dying, and the new normal has yet to be formed. How, then, shall we lead in our communities, towns, and cities? What is now required of us?”
Paul and Sarah Williams will open up this subject from a biblical, historical, cultural and missional perspective. Prof Paul Williams, CEO, Bible Society. Dr Sarah Williams, Church Historian and Author
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The Events calendar, with more events, is here. |
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