Evangelism UK

Polish people living for Jesus conference

Paul Finn from the Southampton Christian Fellowship says they are holding a conference to help Polish people live for Jesus and reach other Polish people: http://www.scfchurch.net/polski.htm

Mission and Polish people: report from Global Connections

Global Connections held a day conference and now have a report which includes a Directory and Resources for mission with Polish people in the UK: http://www.globalconnections.co.uk/missionintheuk/poletopole.htm

Polish / English New Testament

The Bible Society have a Polish / English New Testament on their web page of Bible Resources: http://www.bibleresources.org.uk/

Rural issues and Migration

Simon Martin at the Arthur Rank Centre points us to a variety of resources for the church in mission with migrant people:

http://www.arthurrankcentre.org.uk/publications_and_resources/rural_migrant_workers_resources/church_related_resources/index.html

Sentamu on Migration at EA text

The text of the Temple Lecture on Migration from the Archbishop of York is linked to the Evangelical Alliance website home page:

http://www.eauk.org/

EA launch 'No Strangers' message about migration

The Archbishop of York gave the Temple Lecture last night which launched a new initiative from EA to welcome the stranger:

http://www.eauk.org/nostrangers/

EA competition winner to meet Sentamu

The EA have invited the Archbishop of York to speak at the Temple Lecture on  27th November on Immigration and Cohesion... and launched a competition to prepare for it. See:

http://www.eauk.org/slipstream/events/temple-address-competition.cfm

CMS Mission and Migration in Yes magazine

The Yes magazine of CMS provides various articles about mission and migration in the UK. It is available as a download from:

http://www.cms-uk.org/Resources/Yesmagazine/tabid/226/Default.aspx

World mission in Britain and Ireland

The British and Irish Association for Mission Studies are holding a day conference called 'Mission in Reverse' in Birmingham on 17th October. It will look at evangelisation here by people from other parts of the world. A book and conference details are on:

http://www.biams.org.uk/news.php

CMS Yes magazine on Mission and Migration

The latest edition of the magazine 'Yes', published by the Church Mission Society, covers the general theme of mission and migration. Various articles and features explore the subject in the UK context. The whole magazine can be seen as a pdf, or some articles read on:

http://www.cms-uk.org/Resources/Yesmagazine/tabid/226/language/en-GB/Default.aspx

Website: Serving Refugees

David Spriggs has passed on the link to this new website 'Enabling Christians for Serving Refugees'. Migration is a huge missiological issue at the moment and this website covers a great deal of ground in providing information and advice for the network.

http://www.ecsr.org.uk/cm/

Jesus in my language

Geoff Knott from Wycliffe UK has sent out a press release about a new resource which puts passages from the Gospel of Mark in to many different languages for people to read in their own heart language. The resource is part of the 2025 project in which Wyclifffe is a partner, aiming to provide a Bible translation start for every language in the world by 2025. The new resource here lists short passages of the Gospel in 70 languages. More will be added as the months go by on to:

www.jesusinmylanguage.org

Baptist: Migration Challenge and Opportunity

The Baptist Union of Great Britain has produced a download resource in the File Directory on Migration as a Challenge and Opportunity. Particularly applicable to Baptist churches because of the research which has gone in to it, this is aplicable for other churches too. It can be read alongside the booklet 'Migration Principles': a Statement for Churches working on Migration Issues (www.ctbi.org.uk).

The Baptist File address is: http://www.baptist.org.uk/resources/mission_evangelism_resources.asp?section=31