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Iain Taylor

Date posted: 7 Jul 2024

Festival Teesside, featuring evangelist Andrew Palau, was ‘a massive success’ and the ‘fruition of 15 years of hard work,’ says mission organiser Stephen Sutton.

Sutton, who is pastor of Beacon Baptist Church, Middlesborough, also said that the gospel seed had been sown and that local churches were now deploying ‘the skills of the harvest field’ which the Palau team provided.

Iain Taylor

Date posted: 1 Jan 2024

Jill Duff, Bishop of Lancaster, who is orthodox on issues of sex and sexuality, and has been a leading voice opposing change, spoke to en.

She said: ‘Why should we leave? One of my heroes of church planting in the Polynesian islands was George Selwyn, an architect of the Anglican Communion. He had a compellingly pragmatic response to error: “But how, you will ask, shall the truth of doctrine be maintained if we tolerate in the mission field every form of error, and provide no safeguard for the purity of the faith? I answer that, as running water purifies itself, so Christian work is seen to correct its own mistakes.” I urge evangelicals to resist any intimidation, but instead to stay and contend for the gospel through the Church of England.’

Iain Taylor

Date posted: 1 Nov 2023

Scripture Union is aiming for ‘at least’ 3,500 groups in just three to five years time as it embarks on a new nationwide initiative.

SU – a Christian charity for children and young people aiming to share the gospel – is beginning its new ‘Mission Possible’ nationwide tour.

Iain Taylor

Date posted: 1 Oct 2023

Churches and Christian organisations have spoken of their sadness and pain as the official report into well-known charismatic leader Mike Pilavachi said he displayed coercive and controlling behaviour at the church and had inappropriate relationships.

His actions included massaging young male interns and wrestling young men as he used his ‘spiritual authority to control people’.

Iain Taylor

Date posted: 1 May 2022

Passion for Life – the movement which has been seeking to see the gospel of Christ preached across the British Isles this recent Easter and which is supported by over 750 churches – is celebrating some of the creative ways it has been used by churches to tell their families and communities about Jesus.

Dundonald Church in Wimbledon, part of Co-mission, held a South Africa-themed ‘Around the Braai with the Bodyguard’. It took 42kg of South African sausage to feed the nearly 300 people who attended the event. They heard some amazing stories from Rory Steyn, about his time as chief bodyguard to Nelson Mandela, and learned how the person of Jesus had an even bigger impact on his life.

Iain Taylor

Date posted: 1 Feb 2022

Meron (Mary) Haile has become the first woman missionary from Ethiopia to be a part of Serving in Mission (SIM) UK’s Engage programme. The 29-year-old is now serving with Inspire at St James, Clerkenwell, as part of SIM’s strategy of bringing experienced workers from overseas to work with churches in their multicultural contexts.

Engage helps (mainly urban) UK evangelical churches to share the gospel cross-culturally with the different ethnic and religious communities now embedded where they are. Many churches now recognise the strategic gospel opportunity – on their own doorsteps – to reach those who have not heard the good news of Christ.

Iain Taylor

Date posted: 1 Jul 2022

Is it possible to be a committed Christian entrepreneur in the world of Scotch whisky? Duncan McFadzean (photo) reckons so.

He is an Investment Banker to the Scotch whisky industry and co-founder of Creo, which exists to ‘connect, train and resource Christian entrepreneurs to advance the common good’.

Iain Taylor

Date posted: 1 Jan 2022

International Mission to Jewish People (IMJP) is to step up its efforts to reach and share the gospel with Jewish people living in London, the result of a discernible new openness among some to hear and receive the good news.

One such person was Simon, a young Jewish punk rock singer. Befriended by an IMJP missionary, he revealed how tough he was finding lockdown. The missionary talked about the hope he had in Jesus, Simon accepted a copy of John’s Gospel and the two are now having regular one-to-one Bible studies.

Iain Taylor

Date posted: 1 Nov 2021

‘Evangelism in a time of crisis’ was the theme of the 2021 Evangelism Conference, entitled ‘Evangelism Now’, held at All Soul’s Langham Place.

Rico Tice set out the three key principles of evangelism: it must be based on God’s sovereignty; the gospel must be presented with both integrity and truth; there must be no deception in how we operate.

Iain Taylor

Date posted: 1 Oct 2021

As UK Christians consider how they might help the sudden influx of refugees from Afghanistan, one church leader with extensive experience of mission to Muslims has warned that the overwhelming majority of evangelical churches will not see any asylum seekers placed anywhere near them by the government.

Stephen Kneale (photo left) of Oldham Bethel Church says: ‘Most of these asylum seekers are open to Christianity. We already welcome many Afghani refugees who are, typically, very receptive to a gospel that is demonstrably different to what they left behind. Dozens of those we have witnessed to have put their faith in Christ.

Iain Taylor

Date posted: 1 Aug 2021

Joel Edwards has died from cancer aged 70. The first black man to lead the Evangelical Alliance (EA), he leaves behind an inspiring legacy of unity in diversity, social engagement and Christ-centred service.

After serving as a probation officer and as a pastor in east London, Joel became the General Secretary of the African and Caribbean Evangelical Alliance, where he worked to show the transforming power of Christ in communities, bring predominantly black churches together, and build bridges between the organisation and UK churches.