EvangelismUK

HopeInfo website good stats

Gareth Squire reports good news on the new HopeInfo website. 'Big Hope' films have been added to the Christian enquiry site which will develop further. Serving Hope08 and the whole church, it is run by CEA and Rejesus. HopeInfo  has already had 15,433 visitors by Easter. 4000 explored the 'next steps' and 1,600 sent a 'Secrets of Hope' text. 300 people have signed up for the weekly Hope email. You can see the fruit of all the labours and encourage all churches to use this inovative enquiry service:

www.hopeinfo.co.uk

Alpha in the Workplace

A growing interest and opportunity for holiding an Alpha course in the workplace is being resourced by a day conference on Friday 23rd May. Mark Greene will be speaking alongside the Alpha coordinators, and the intention is to help people get started. Web link is:

http://www.htb.org.uk/events/alpha-workplace

Alpha conference with new features

The next main Alpha conference will be held 19/20th May 2008 with many new features for people interested in running a course. A Market Place will be held covering youth, student, prison and workplace Alpha, and a seminar held on 'How to give a good live talk'. All details are on:

http://www.htb.org.uk/events/alpha-conference-8

Alpha friends relaunched

Bonnie Yule-Kuehne, the UK Development Director at Alpha, has said that the website and support network for anyone interested in Alpha has been re launched. 'Alpha Friends' is for prayer supporters, church leaders and people who run courses. 'Friends' can send in news and comment on others. Alpha podcasts of conference speakers are also available on:

www.alphafriends.org

RUN/Hope08 iMatter dvd launch

Chris Stoddard from Reaching the Unchurched Network (RUN) has worked in partnership with Hope08 on a ten minute dvd called iMatter. It will be launched in April, but already advance sales have topped 1400 copies. Produced for low price give away, this dvd asks lots of questions and explores hopes, dreams and aspirations. The dvds can be ordered through:

http://www.run.org.uk/R/imatter/default.aspx

A dedicated website accompanies this dvd called:

www.iMatter.org.uk which is for enquirers who want to find out more about the Christian faith.

Collins publish Christianity in 'Need to Know' series

Peter Graystone, who develops the fresh expressions agenda at Church Army, has a new book out.  It is called ‘Need to Know: Christianity’ and it is one of a series that Harper Collins publishes – a sort of ‘teach yourself’ series.  The idea is that if you are a teacher, a journalist or an enquirer, and you want to find out the basics of the subject in one evening, it is short, objective and easy to read.  So in it you can find what Christians believe, what they do, what big issues face them today, and the story of how we have got from Jesus to here during the last two thousand years.  The best deal on it at the moment is on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Christianity-Collins-Need-Peter-Graystone/dp/0007261160/ref=sr_1_15?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1206616363&sr=8-15

URC launch Vision4Life

Francis Brienen, the new Secretary for Mission at the URC, provides information about the new initiative being launched to help local churches engage with Bible, Prayer and Evangelism. All local congregations of the United Reformed Church have now received material and the website has been launched to proceed conversations this Spring, Summer and Autumn at the start of this 4 year review 'Vision4Life'. Details are on the micro site within the URC website:

http://vision4life.terapad.com/index.cfm?fa=contentGeneric.home

The Passion feedback to BBC

Andrew Graystone from the Churches Media Council is happy to collate single sentence comments from church leaders about The Passion. BBC executives want to know what views of people are and this is an efficient way of providing a lot of quotes. If you can offer any comment please email:

andrew@churchesmediacouncil.org.uk

He will send in the report by the end of next week.

Fresh Expressions guide video

The Share website (www.sharetheguide.org) – run by Fresh Expressions and Church Army - now has a promo video on video-sharing site YouTube. Share is a space for people leading or supporting fresh expressions of church to share their journeys, what they have learnt and their questions - and to find ways forward. It consists of: a blog, an opportunity to join learning networks, questions and answers, space to say what worked in your fresh expression and what didn’t, and a guide to good practice which currently contains more than 100 pages and is growing every week.

The video can be found at the link below, or go to youtube.com and type share fresh expressions into the Search box at the top of the page:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=zP8UXuyFQtc

Home Visiting and chlidren's evangelism

Nick White has just written the latest in the Evangelism Series for Grove Books called: Home Visiting with the sub title 'Openning Doors to Children's Evangelism'. Now a Training and Development officer in the URC specialising in children and youth, this book is based on his previous work in a local church in Chatham. Home visiting is the key to good relationships and Nick explores all the possibilities and problems. It is the latest release on:

http://www.grovebooks.co.uk/cart.php?target=category&category_id=286