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The Antioch Plan is a new church planting initiative for London.

It’s been launched by Co-Mission, the cross-denominational church planting network run by Richard Coekin. This exciting development is an attempt to gather and plant ‘house church’-sized congregations across the wide variety of Greater London’s geography. Their objective is to recruit, train and deploy a cohort of ten to 15 pioneer church planters and fund them over a three-year period. And they’ve been given £1 million to finance it.

After 40 years of beach mission work at Lyme Regis, United Beach Mission (UBM) are happy that in the Spring of this year they were granted a further three years to run the children’s summer club after a challenge by a local councillor, over the past two years, put the work under threat.

Councillor Mark Gage, who in his profile on the Lyme Regis Town Council website puts a priority area for development as ‘youth facilities’, expressed concerns about UBM’s work with children on the beach. In the local paper, Tim Howlett, UBM’s executive officer, was clear that families are made aware of the Christian nature of the work of UBM and its aim to share the good news of Jesus, encouraging families to be involved and that no children are encouraged to attend without the permission of their parents.

Ryan Burton King

Date posted: 1 Jun 2014

From April 4–6 a group of around 70 young people met for a weekend on the site of All Nations Christian College in Hertfordshire to consider ways of getting involved in evangelism and mission.

This annual event of the Grace Baptist Churches in South East England for Christians aged 15-25, celebrated its tenth anniversary with moving times of worship, helpful workshops, excellent Bible teaching, and lots of opportunities for fellowship.

Keswick has announced a more detailed programme for this year’s Convention, as new chief executive Jonathan Lamb settles into the role.

The Convention, which runs from July 12 – August 1 in the Lake District town, is exploring some of the deep questions of life, and has invited apologists Ravi Zacharias, Chris Sinkinson and Roger Carswell, and Bible teachers Vaughan Roberts, Ian Coffey and many others to preach. The Convention also aims to make its programme helpful to Christians who bring non-believing friends and relatives with them in its third week.

Over the last 50 years the European Missionary Fellowship [EMF] has been investing in training Christians for the work of gospel ministry in Europe and subsequently many other parts of the world too.

The anniversary was marked at the Open Day of EMF’s School of Biblical Studies on May 10 at Welwyn Evangelical Church, Hertfordshire. Around 150 attended specially arranged meetings.

On Saturday, March 1, over 90 people came to The Net, a training day in evangelism and evangelistic preaching, at Enfield Evangelical Free Church, organised by United Beach Missions and Roger Carswell and sponsored by 10ofthose.com .

Johnny Prime, pastor of the church, set the scene for the day as he showed from Luke 5 that the Lord Jesus is the loving people-catcher who catches sinful people for the purpose of catching others. As we preach the Word of God we throw out the net to others even when conditions may not look ideal.