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Gavin Wakefield is the course director for an MA in Theolgy at Durham which has a suite of studies all relating to mission and evangelism. Modules led by Steven Croft, David Wilkiknson, John and Olive Drane, Tom Wright and other make up the flexible course which is designed to take 3 years. See:
Plainsong is top of the classics chart .. not the most obvious evangelism headline and I hesitated about adding it to Evangelism UK. However, it shows how interested people are in spiritual things outside church and music was one of the things which helped me come to faith ... so lets pray for this one:
Peter Simpson from the UK Purpose Driven office points us to a new resource which is UK based and resourced. David Beer fronts the campaign 'Building relationships with God's love' which can be accessed through their website:
Martin Robinson from Together in Mission is advertising the Missional Leadership Course which is for church leaders already in ministry and wishing to study the new cultural landscape and mission response. Various subjects throughout the year are studied and can be accreditted. See:
Andrew Wooding from Fresh Expressions points us to a blog feature on the Share: The Guide website which helps practitioners start and sustain a Fresh Expression. He says there is much discussion about being 'radical' taking place among FX practitioners and this is being debated on the blog which you can join at:
Richard Zair, the new UK Executive Director of EE, says that the new DVD training resource 'Sharing your faith starts here' is now available. Aimed at reaching 20-40s and produced by EE International, the material with video sessions can be seen at:
As part of this new resource package XEE have produced a Gospel website for enquirers at:
Janice Price from the CTBI Global Mission Network has produced the latest GMN news which contains a sumary of the talk given by Martyn Atkins on Mission Accompaniment and the Emerging Church which can be seen at:
The next Future Church Conference is on the theme 'Future Church and Missionary Diversity' 30/31st October 2008 in Birmingham. A link to that is on:
Tom Price works part time with Damaris, a youth and student mission resource network where video clips and other media resources are provided for outreach activities. They have a 'What's New' page of the latest additions which can be seen at:
A souvenir Decision magazine arrived today with pictures of the recent Celebration of Hope in Belfast. It records 32,783 people attending and 2,445 coming forward to make a commitment of some sort. I notice various video links, especially for the music, are on Youtube. This particular link covers the invitation prayer and makes interesting viewing for the enthusiastic response of the young people shown in the arena:
Brian Moore from Glasgow Baptist church has launched a new initiative which is literally 'outside the box'. A small black box contains tracts which simply have single words from Jesus and a follow up web link. The size of a business card, one simply says 'What if?' and on the back 'God exists' with the web link. It is both simple and complex as it engages the mind to think about issues. Some idea is gained by the website:
