Casting nets
Mike Mellor
Three well-known organisations
joined
forces in a new project in September, in
order to train and inspire each and every
Christian to share their faith.
Pocket Testament League
and Good
News Newspaper
linked with Outreach
UK
to equip and encourage
individual
Christians, through their
local church, to
share
their
faith. Following
the
launch,
Trevor Dickerson (Outreach UK) was asked
why
‘Casting Your Nets’ was so needed:
‘So often evangelism has been seen as the
domain and priority of the few who are called as evangelists – or for those who seem
to have a special gift or certain personality
for spreading the gospel. But this is a task
in which every single believer needs to be
involved, and we have a deep desire to be
a support to the local church in order that
every Christian can be confident, motivated
and engaged in the glorious task of spreading the good news of the gospel message.’
Get up and give it a go!
Mike Mellor
Mike Mellor with some motivation for evangelism
It was pioneer missionary C.T. Studd who asked in exasperated disbelief: ‘How can a man believe in Hell unless he throws away his life to rescue others from its torment?’
Hope in Heatherlands
Mike Mellor
The Heatherlands Centre in Ferndown, near
Bournemouth, was packed on 30 April to
see Giles Woodcraft inducted to the pastorate at Hope Church.
As Pastor for Evangelism, he will work as
co-pastor alongside Stuart Fisher the Pastor
for Teaching. There was a real sense of joy
and expectancy as the church – originally a
church
plant
from Moordown Baptist
Church and now an
independent FIEC
church – enters this new phase.