Don’t worry! This isn’t another health and fitness craze. My focus is on how you might structure roles and ways of working for the leadership team of a Mission Community....
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Hidden Wounds in Our Midst: A Review
The Church has taken over 2,000 years to realise and acknowledge that domestic violence is contrary to the Gospel. With honourable exceptions, it has ignored, enabled and on occasion encouraged...
A Mission-Shaped Year?
Welcome to 2018! Can this be a Mission-Shaped year? As the LORD admonished Judah in the words of the Prophet Isaiah (read more here), learning to do Mission is crucial...
What does a Mission Shaped Community look like?
As we come together across the county to form ecumenical mission communities, one of the questions that I frequently hear is: What difference is this going to make? Is this...
Growing Disciples
When I was training for ordination I discovered I could ‘do’ flower arranging. It took me a while to figure out how I’d learned to do this. My mother loved...
A Messy Baptism
With extra family & friends invited, it was a great turn out for baby Samuel's christening at Greystoke Messy Church a couple of weeks ago. Visitors and friends of the family...
Sharing Stories
My mum, who died last year, was a shy woman, but warmly hospitable. She also took much pleasure in cleaning and ironing – a trait that I have not inherited....
Local Lay Ministry Day: a review
I was privileged to attend a day for Local Lay Ministers on 11th November 2017 at Penrith Methodist Church. The day was very well supported with about 40 people attending...
Resources for discipling in small groups
I was recently asked if I had come across any resources that could support discipling in a small group or one-to-one setting. I imagine these queries reflect the reality that...
Wisdom, Human Flourishing and Resilience
Last week I was at the national Diocesan Directors of Ordinands consultation, which had the title “Wisdom, Human Flourishing and Resilience”. It was one of those occasions when I came...
