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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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The Calling Lab
For anyone looking to ask Jesus for clarity in their calling. That place where your happiness and the world's needs meet and where we're being deployed for the long term or just the next period.
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Marketplace ministry
Sean was stewarding 160 hours per month of each employee’s work, whereas each employee spent only 1.7 hours pm at church. In other words, he had 94 times more spiritual access to his employees than church pastors. How did the Lord lead him?
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Life Chances |
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NHS - We need to talk about trauma
"Learning about trauma has transformed my GP practice, helping me make sense of much that has frustrated, worried, exhausted me for years. I am now committed to sharing lessons with other healthcare professionals."
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How AI is revolutionising education
The system isn't broken - it's outdated, no longer necessary in its current form due to advances in technology and AI. There is urgency for educators to integrate AI into their teaching strategies and work processes.
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In-Person - Restorers of Hope Conference - 9am 12 Mar - Peterborough
The UK faces a homelessness crisis, made up of many different problems:
Resources: the lack of affordable housing and the basic cost of living.
Relationships: family breakdown, loneliness, isolation.
Identity: low self-esteem, mental health problems and addictions.
We need a hope able to respond to all three of these problems. Hope into Action works with the church to respond to each of these forms of poverty: the resource of accommodation, relationships through friendship and community and the chance to re-build a positive identity. The Hope into Action Annual Conference is for everyone who believes that the Christian faith can transform lives. It is for church leaders, community activists, investors, volunteers, housing and social care professionals and anyone who is interested in how the Christian faith changes lives.
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In-Person - The Eclipse of Christianity? - 7pm 12 Mar - London
Rupert Shortt, religion editor for The Times Literary Supplement, is clear-eyed about the state of Christianity in the West. Mainstream churches are facing a significant decline, with some at risk of dying out altogether.
The census reveals that a minority of British people now identify as Christian, and that trend is mirrored across nearby societies. Many cultural influencers are promoting secularism with the kind of dogmatic zeal they criticise in people of faith. And others, though they’re spiritually curious, remain publicly sceptical of religious beliefs like the existence of God.
But it’s not all doom and gloom. Shortt argues that church teachings are still both intellectually sound and globally influential. Christianity continues to inspire transformative action around the world and remains a source of hope for humanity. And the church needs to be bolder about saying just that.
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Online - Exponential Global 2025 - Multiplication Movements - 5:30pm 18-20 Mar
Following Jesus’ mission leads to a flourishing life, not just settling for the ordinary. Let’s move beyond mere growth to creating a multiplying movement, building God’s Kingdom together. Jesus calls us to embrace the extraordinary and resist the temptation of building our own empires, focusing solely on advancing His Kingdom.
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In-Person - Ekklesia 2025 - 2pm 19-20 Mar - London
Ekklesia is an overnight conference for church leaders and leadership teams to explore together the raw and the real of church life. It’s a space to unpack some of the thinking and the practical ideas that help us effectively bring about Kingdom change.
Since we started in 2019, we’ve had vicars and pastors, deacons and elders, youth workers and community workers, lay preachers and mission enablers join us. Some leaders come alone and some come as a team from their local church. This is a great opportunity to learn together!
The whole conference is based around roundtables with an opportunity to discuss and contextualise what is shared from the front.
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In-Person - Wonderful Summit North - 9:30am 20 Mar - Bradford
Join a generation of redemptive entrepreneurs, investors, innovators and world changers. A day to be inspired by pioneers, to learn how to grow in your business and leadership and to connect with others on the same journey.
Connect and share with like-minded entrepreneurs and business leaders so you can be a part of the work God is doing in impacting culture. The Wonderful Summit is a time for us to grow together as a business community.
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Online - Recruiting volunteers for children’s and youth ministry - 11am 31 Mar
Would you love to offer more for children and young people in your church or community group, but just can’t find enough volunteers? If so, this webinar is for you! Come along and hear all about the JOIN resources and how they can help you recruit volunteers. We will guide you through how to use the resources and share stories of churches that have used the JOIN toolkit successfully. Come along, ask your questions and be encouraged.
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