Mission Network News

My Dog Ate the Sponge Buns

The book that Simon Allaby advertised at last year's Missioners Conference has now been printed and is available from him.  Written for those who sometimes think that there 'must be more to life than this', but who never get as far as thinking what the 'more' might look like, nor where it might be found; the book contains a collection of 28 short stories followed by a question, each one designed to help the reader think and reflect more deeply on issues of life and faith.  Feedback so far has been very positive including comments such as "I could give this to anyone", and "lovely, funny, yet profound".  The book includes a postscript with a simple prayer for those seeking God, and a 'What next?' page with website information about how to find a local church or an Alpha or Christianity Explored course.  Individual copies cost £2 but bulk orders are available at £1 per copy.  If you would like a free copy to 'try before you buy' please contact Simon with your name and address. www.sixnineteen.co.uk

Real Easter Egg Campaign

This week is the formal launch of the 2013 Real Easter Egg Campaign. www.realeasteregg.co.uk

The aim is to establish the UKs first and only religious, Fairtrade, charity Easter egg as an annual tradition.

To make the  2013 Real Easter Egg campaign a success, they need individuals, churches and schools to place direct mail bulk orders with us in January and February. 

In the last three weeks they have sent out a resource pack to churches, schools and previous customers. Orders have already started flooding in and we have sold more than 10,000 eggs in the last two weeks.

This year the Real Easter Egg has a free activity pack in the box which includes the Easter story, activity poster, free i-tune download and a sticker set. The resurrection text from Mark is inside the lid.

See pictures section from the website here.

If you have not received a marketing pack you can either download it here or email, to have one sent by post, by clicking here or emailing [email protected]

Summer Mission Trips for Teens 2013: YWAM & Soul Action

Just Go! is a partnership between Soul Action and YWAM, and this year, we're heading to central and eastern Europe! If you have any exam leavers who have extra time on their hands, then get them to kick off the summer by joining one of our teams. So far, we have teams heading to
Serbia, Poland and Romania with more on the way! We start with a training camp near Gatwick, with excellent speakers and creative workshops, before heading out to Europe for 10 days, followed by a celebration and debrief back where we start out. We can even help with ideas for fundraising!

For more details, please head to www.justgoywam.com - and get your young people to head there too!

For those who are not exam leavers this year, we have initiatives running for them too! E.g. 'Wildfire':
* TANZANIA: 22nd March - 5/6th April - Tree planting and children's ministry
* ISLE OF MAN: 'Go' Camp: Isle of Man: 31st May - 2nd June
* SENEGAL: 8th - 29th August: 'Planting Together'
* PHILIPPINES: 29th July - 19th August: Wildfire (youth missions)

Please, please do get in touch if you have any questions or want to know more. All our events include training with amazing speakers, and lots of fun and worship. We can even help you with ideas to raise funds!

We also have weekend outreaches round England all through the year, so do get in touch about anything in this email.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Helena & The Just Go Team

New Publications from ReSource

We are pleased to announce two new ReSource publications:

Distilling Life – poems for meditation and reflection :

Selected by Alison Morgan and Martin Cavender

Robert Frost once said that ‘poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.’ It’s certainly a way of penetrating beyond the demands of our working world, of opening ourselves up to new ways of thinking and being. Poetry invites us to experience our old and familiar world in new and creative ways; poetry is a gateway to prayer. Perhaps that’s why so much of the Bible comes in poetic form – myths, psalms, visions, prophecies, parables, revelations. This collection has been carefully selected and arranged in a way which we hope will help you undertake a spiritual journey. Featuring over 100 poems ranging over 26 centuries, it includes familiar writers and writers you’ve never heard of. We have added images too to help unleash your imagination, to beckon you into new places. It can be used by just one person, or by a group of friends who want to go deeper together. We think it is unique in its scope and purpose. It’s available from our website, price £6 (92pp , perfect binding).

 A Vision for your Church – outcomes of the Spirit

by Roger Morgan

Our vision is to help build a church which is diverse, local, renewed in the Spirit and effective in mission. One of the ways we try and achieve this is to work with individual churches and church leaders, helping them discern a unique and God-given vision for their context. To facilitate that, Roger has come up with a booklet designed to help churches look critically at what they are doing. It’s a book of questions, not answers, and can be used by church leaders and church councils or leadership teams; our hope is that it will enable those who use it to identify a shared vision and begin to work towards it together. Price £3 (or £20 for a pack of 10)

 

Meanwhile our evangelism course Beautiful Lives is receiving encouraging feedback, and we are already having to reprint. One church leader decided to try it out herself before inflicting it on the church – and had so many fruitful conversations in supermarkets and park benches that they now plan to use it in all the home groups. In another part of the country, a young woman was struck at a training session with the realisation that she didn’t know her neighbours, decided to attend a neighbour’s funeral the next week and found everyone felt the same – so they are planning to share a meal together to get to know each other. ‘Beauty of life causes strangers to join our ranks. We do not talk about great things, we live them,’ a Roman called Minucius Felix explained as he watched the church grow in the 2^nd century. We have the potential to do this too.

They can all be ordered from www.resource-arm.net 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ecclesiology and Ethnography UK 2013 Conference Announced

2013 Symposium Ecclesiology and Ethnography Europe 

Doctrine and the Practice of the Church

10-12 September

St John’s College, Durham

For more information download the below

Download E2 Conference Europe CFP-2013