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Blowing your Cover is a resource to help Christians share their faith in everyday life. On the back of the popular take up of the main course, BYC leaders are running day conferences in various places, mainly north and in Scotland between September and March. Each day conference will look at Understanding your Culture, Finding Christ in your Culture, and Transforming your Culture.
Details are on www.blowingyourcover.com
The Bible Society with Liverpool Hope University are hosting a Political Discourse Colloquium Friday 28th-Saturday 29th Spetember 2007 at Liverpool Hope University. Various key note speakers will be considering 'themes and issues that define language and communication of the Christian worldview in the public square'.
All details are on www.bible2babel.org.
The Churches Co-ordinating Group for New Communities is hosting a seminar on church planting and Fresh Expressions in the specific contect of new housing areas, on September 26th 2007. Two practitioners and two network facilitators will lead the seminar 2-4pm at Methodist Church House, London. Space is available for 20 interested church leaders and evangelists to join in. Email Jim Currin if interested.
See the Recent Article on www.cinha.net.
'Friends and Heroes' is a cartoon series about characters from the Bible. It has been well received around the world and now BBC2 plan to show it this Autumn. Designed for children of any faith or none, it covers characters from both the Old and New Testaments, and has particularly proved useful in schools work, for which extra material has been written.
Details are on http://uk.friendsandheroes.com/uklaunch.htm
Reaching the Unchurched Network are hosting a conference on Missional Leadership which will last one day each. It will be held in Glasgow on Tuesday October 9th, with Peter Neilson and Nick Cuthbert, and then in Stockton on Tees on Wednesday 31st October. with James Lawrence and Nick Cuthbert. It will look at what sort of missional leaders are needed in the 21st Century environment.
All details are on www.run.org.uk.
The Rural Evangelism network has just relaunched its website. Aimed at building an interactive network of people involved in rural evangelism. It will have a subscription base (£10) and membership. This will enable members to post articles and information for the rest of the network.
Details are on www.ruralmissions.org.uk
The Rural Evangelism Network is hosting a conference at Hothorpe Hall in Leicestershire with members of the Fresh Expressions team to consider Fresh Expressions in the Rural context. The 24 hour conference is being held September 13/14th 2007.
Details are on the Rural Missions website www.ruralmissions.org.uk
Reaching the Unchurched Network is running a conference led by Bishop Graham Cray: 21st Century Disciples ... creating a contemporary whole-life disciple making movement inthe local church... in association with LICC.
Tuesday 25th September in Warwick and Wednesday 27th September in Altrincham.
All details are on http://www.run.org.uk/envision/FutureC/21CDisciples.aspx
Fusion is a mission agency which aims, among many other things, to link up new students with local churches, especially at the start of a new academic year. Fusion has an extensive network of contacts, and local churches can put links on to their website for students to know how they can link in to the scheme, both for their own young people leaving home, and for new students who may be moving in to the area.
Details of the scheme are on:
'Love Your Uni' is a new mission initiative of Fusion: resourcing and inspiring students to love their universities. This is the challenge:
Wanted. Students to love their uni. Students who are missional, biblical, relational, catalytic and inclusive. Students who will live beyond themselves, in the culture, with clean hearts and dirty hands. Students who will give beyond themselves, building community and organising parties. Students who will love beyond themselves, dealing grace to broken lives and lonely hearts. For Christ's sake, will you love your uni?
All details of their new mission initiative can be found on www.loveyouruni.org.
