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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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...
The Ordination of a Woman
How long is it since women were first able to be ordained to a preaching and sacramental ministry in the British Isles? On 17th September 1917, at a Congregational...
