Missioners Conference 2009

2010 details

The 2010 Missioners Conference will be held in Merville from Tuesday June 29 - Friday July 2. Click here to book your place. Booking deadline Friday 26th March. More details to follow soon.

Posts below include:

• (NEW) Recordings of Jules Gomes's Bible reflections on Exile
• Mike Chew's PPT on Mission Action Planning
• Graham Cray's PowerPoint on the future of Fresh Expressions.  
• Emma Ineson's concluding reflections.
• And of course the link to Emma's YouTube file of "Dancing Matt Harding". 
• Plus two YouTube posts of the Conference's final dancing prayer... 

(If you didn't attend the conference, you need to read Emma's reflection and watch Matt's video before you're ready to see the Conference dancing...) 

Still to come: handouts of Jules Gomes's Bible reflections on Exile. Jules has had to travel to Mumbai to be with his mother who is unwell. Please pray for him. We will post these as soon as possible. Thanks for your patience. 

Jules Gomes's Talks on Exile

Feel free to download these recordings of Jules's talks.

Please note these recordings were originally intended for use only as personal notes. The quality of recording and levels of background noise vary throughout the recordings. However we hope they may be useful to you.

Download Jules Exile 1.dvf

Download Jules Exile Prophecy 3.dvf

Mike Chew's Mission Action Planning workshop

Here's Mike's PowerPoint:

Download MAP Workshop Missioners v4

Missioner of the Year 2009

A number of missioners were nominated, and voting was close, but in the end there was a clear winner:

Rochester diocese's own Jean Kerr - 

for outstanding service to evangelism training, 

and for a cutting edge that never loses its sharpness or its compassion. 

And such a great hairstyle!

Funny little dance: singing a strange song in the Lord's land...

Thanks again to Emma Ineson for coming, listening, praying and reflecting on the work of our network and of enabling mission today.

Here are her final reflections: Download Reflections

Emma concluded by saying this:

So do continue asking ‘What on earth are we meant to be doing?” - whilst also knowing deep down why you are meant to be doing it. You are doing it because you want to invite the prodigals home, to invite others to the party.

The ‘Dancing’ clip can be downloaded at www.wherethehellismatt.com.

"Mission means inviting all the people of the earth to hear the music of God's future and dance to it today" (Christopher J. H. Wright ‘The Mission of God’).

So keep doing your funny little dance, sometimes people will join in with you and sometimes they won’t. Sometimes you will change the way you dance, but keep dancing, and God will be with you. 

And Emma left us with the image of Matt Harding and his "funny little dance" - odd perhaps, offbeat, but infectious, building community, pointing beyond ourselves. And Bonnie Appleton led the whole conference in our own version of that dance.

So here you go - three YouTube clips. Firstly Matt Harding. Then two views of us. Enjoy...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlfKdbWwruY&feature=player_embedded   

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hM8YEYFLpko&feature=player_embedded

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omH10YnmsV4&feature=player_embedded

Graham Cray's PowerPoint: Fresh Expressions phase 2

This file headlines the changes, vision and focus in Fresh Expressions as Graham leads the team into the next chapter.

Download FE Phase 2

Download in older PowerPoint 97-2004 format - Download Fe-phase-2 ppt97-2004 format

Download FE Phase 2

Download in older PowerPoint 97-2004 format - Download Fe-phase-2 ppt97-2004 format