Evangelism UK

Evangelism UK posted 600+ news items

Today has been the day when news item number 600 was posted on Evangelism UK. More than 200 people receive the post free as email or rss feed when posted out, and 25 - 30 visits are made each day to the archive here at www.evangelismuk.typepad.com

Baptist Mission Dept newsletter

The Baptist Union of Great Britain have a Mission Department network newsletter with various news items and information. The September edition pdf can be see at: http://www.baptist.org.uk/news_media/docs/mission0909.pdf

Baptist Mission Dept Newsletter for local churches

The Mission Department of the Baptist Union of Great Britain have a newsletter for local churches which you can see at: http://www.baptist.org.uk/news_media/docs/mission0509.pdf

GfE Priorities in 2009

EvangelismUk is brought to you by the network of national evangelism officers for England: the Churches Coordinating Group for Evangelisation. Priorities considered in 2008 will form papers for local churches in 2009. Background information is on:

http://www.gfe.org.uk/

Hope08: news from No10 plus

The team at Hope08 were at Downing Street this week reporting to the Prime Minister on achievements in 2008, and projects that continue in to 2009. See:

http://www.hope08.com/Group/Group.aspx?ID=69097

CASE News

The Catholic Agency to Support Evangelisation have posted their latest CASE Newsletter which covers news from the 2009 tour of their Parish Evangelisation Team,the Catholic Enquiry Office, Come Home for Christmas, Life4 Seekers and much more under the 'Case News' section of:

http://www.caseresources.org.uk/

Jonny Baker on Preaching

Jonny works for CMS and writes extensively about mission on his blogsite. See for example the article on 'Preaching: 'throwing an hand grenade in to the fruitbowl':

http://jonnybaker.blogs.com/jonnybaker/writings.html

CASE e-Zine newsletter

The Catholic Agency to Support Evangelisation (CASE) November newsletter includes details of a Parish Evangelisation Training Tour, and new materials for 'Come Home for Christmas':

http://dotm1.net/cr.aspx?hval=50Ckfm0g4E7yEZOtMpTJRckrhEQ%3d%40%3a%40761609%40%3a%40434809090

STW video, consultation and papers

Paul Bayes 'Start The Week' for Anglican Missioners has a telling video about Welcome; notice of a national 'Faith in Research' consultation; and a paper about understanding Bps Mission Orders for non Anglicans. No point in repeating so go to:

http://starttheweek.typepad.com/stw/

EA Slipstream Podcast Brian McLaren

This months podcast on Slipstream is from Brian Mclaren speaking about young leaders:

http://www.eauk.org/slipstream/index.cfm

EA Friday Night Theology resource

Nearly 2000 people have signed up to receive emails from the Evangelical Alliance, called Friday Night Theology. A post arrives which explores a news topic to help Christians engage in conversation with friends and neighbours over the weekend:

http://www.eauk.org/publictheology/friday-night-theology/

New from Anglican Missioners network

Paul Bayes and team run Start the Week and posted news of Robin Gamble going back to Bradford, Rob Gillion moving on to the City of London, alongside the full set of statistics which aid the mission planning of the Church of England. See:

http://starttheweek.typepad.com/stw/

CASE ezine news items

Lots of news items are in the latest ezine from CASE which includes: advance notice of the 'YFaith' website for 10-13 years olds to start in September; a testimony 'From Gangland to Promised Land'; an event looking at evangelism for 18-35 year olds; and details of the RC Home Mission Sunday 21st Sept. All on:

http://www.caseresources.org/eshot/ezineJuly08.htm

Integral Mission podcasts on Slipstream

Slipstream is the new service from EA for leaders. One of the services it will provide is a series of podcats from well knows leaders on specific issues. This month Tim Chester, Jon Kuhrt and Justin Thacker all address the issues surrounding 'integral mission', as you can see on:

http://www.eauk.org/slipstream/

EA launch Slipstream for leaders

Krish Kandiah at the Evangelical Alliance says the new information, podcast and resources website for leaders, called Slipstream already has 2000 signed up and 500 are on the accompanying Facebook site. Clearly aimed with mission in mind, the site can be seenyou can see the site and sign up at:

http://www.eauk.org/slipstream/

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

CEA latest

Gareth Squire from the Christian Enquiry Agency has posted the latest CEA News on to the Christianity.org website (a pdf version is available as a download under News) with all the information and links for HopeInfo as the public face of Hope08, previously posted here, but with much more news besides.

http://www.christianity.org.uk/news.html

Cof E Start the Week

Paul Bayes is the national evangelism advisor for the Church of England and has a news service for the Anglican network called Start the Week. We work closely together and feed each other information to our various networks. STW is available to people who are not CofE and this week covers lots of topics including an Associates post to work alongside Paul; details of the project Sense Making Faith; Tearfund research on Prayer; Focus on Older People; CASE Come Home for Christmas and resources for Apologetics. I'll post some of the items seperately in EvangelismUK to log them in our archive ... but for now you can visit STW at: http://starttheweek.typepad.com.

RUN and Sprint

Chris Stoddard from RUN (Reaching the Unchurched Network) has news of the many new resources and articles in the latest RUN newsletter, Sprint. These include stories of a church plant on an old military base; a Jazz Church; a Church in the Pub etc ... together with websites looking at connecting church with culture. This is a subscription service for members, who can also access a great variety of ready made resources for outreach. See the Sprint e-magazine link on:

www.run.org.uk/sprint/sprintmaghome.aspx

Reaching the Unchurched Network

Reaching the Unchurched Network is what it says on the tin: A network of people seeking to reach the unchurched. Information and resources are provided on the website. For members of the network who pay and annual subscription, a host of resources can be downloaded including videos, talks, power point presentations, worship graphics etc.

RUN also provide conference and other resources for mission in the modern context, drawing together a network which is extensive and growing. Latest news of their website is sent out by request on an e-news bulletin. All details on www.run.org.uk.

Start the Week

Paul Bayes is the national evangelism officer for the Church of England and produces a weekly e-news bulletin called Start the Week. As you might imagine it is posted on a Monday. Though specifically provided for the network of diocesan missioners, it can and is accessed by anyone in the network.

Start the Week brings together all kinds of information, articles, reviews and details of missioner jobs, as well as some of the items of news from EvangelismUK. It can be found at: www.starttheweek.typepad.com.

Catholic Evangelisation news

The Catholic Agency to Support Evangelisation for the Bishops Conference of England and Wales have just launched a new news bulletin for evangelisation. Electronic versions will be sent to those who request it in July, Oct and Feb. while printed versions will be produced Sept. Dec and Easter. A post will be placed on EvangelismUk to notify and remind.

CASE have a fantastic website of resources, through which the email news 'E-Zine' can be requested.

http://www.caseresources.org.uk/latestnews/latestnews_newsletter.htm