God is your life
Peter Baker
Date posted: 1 Jul 2013
When a pastor moves churches it gives him time to reflect
Peter Baker was senior pastor at Highfields Church, Cardiff, for 18 years.
The Third Degree
Stafford CU online
Pod Bhogal
Date posted: 1 Aug 2013
The University of Staffordshire
Christian Union has started
streaming evangelistic
meetings live on the internet
for students to enjoy from
the comfort of their own hall
of residence.
The Christian Union — which is made up
of just 12 students — decided to live stream
CU meetings because of the high tech and
internet
savvy
nature
of
Staffordshire
University students.
Wales: from
North to South
EMW
Date posted: 1 Aug 2013
In early July the Evangelical Movement of
Wales helped with the running of two
outreaches.
The
first was at Bangor (North Wales)
where Ebenezer Evangelical Church and
Capel y Ffynnon ran a bilingual mission.
Ministry women equipped
Karen Soole
Date posted: 1 Aug 2013
There is one conversation that is repeated
often; it is the one about what women can’t
do in ministry.
Media hostility has
increased
towards
those who believe the Bible teaches comple-mentarianism, because
restricting church
leadership to men is considered unjust. The
underlying implication is that women who
teach women are inferior and succumbing to
the second best option. With this in mind,
the North West Gospel Partnership decided
that the time had come to encourage women
in the ministries that they can do.
Youth Leaders
A Barnabas spirit...
Dave Fenton
Date posted: 1 Aug 2013
We’re all quite good at
structure these days.
We have our aims, objectives, values and
mission statements and, generally, these have
improved the way we do things. There is
more
training around, particularly
in all
these fields, but I wonder if our training
stretches to, or even includes, the way we
deal with people.
London churches growing
JEB
Date posted: 1 Aug 2013
At the instigation of London City Mission
(LCM) a comprehensive study of churches
in London was carried out last year. The
results have now been published and there
is much which is encouraging.
The research was carried out by the Brierley
Consultancy and LCM were particularly
interested to see what information could be
gathered which related
to
the extent and
effectiveness of church planting in the capital.
Should ministers work?
Jonny Raine
Date posted: 1 Aug 2013
Dear Editor,
There is a common conception that it is
best for ministers to have a long spell in secular employment before undertaking ministry,
as was articulated in a letter in the June edition of EN. I would suggest that this is a
flawed idea.
JOY AT IRANIAN BAPTISMS
JEB / Elam Ministries
Date posted: 1 Aug 2013
Elam Ministries reports that 246 people were baptised as Christians at a service on April 17.
Those baptised included 228 Iranians, 17 Afghans and one person from Pakistan. The service took place in a swimming pool at a secret location in a country bordering Iran to avoid interference from the Iranian authorities.
Bible, boomers and below
Chris Wright
Date posted: 1 Jun 2013
‘Hey, Dad, the sermon today was 1 hour 7 minutes and 20 seconds long. All in Portuguese.’
My gap-year daughter was on her regular Sunday collect-call home from her short-term mission placement in Brazil. ‘So I spent the time memorising the books of the Bible. Do you want to know what they are? Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus….’ My first thought was: ‘I’m paying for this call while you rattle off all the books of the Bible’. My second was: ‘Isn’t it great that my teenage daughter wants to knows her way around the Bible?’
A Passion for Life 2014
Tim Hanson
Date posted: 1 Jun 2013
EN: How would you sum up the success of A Passion For Life 2010?
TH: A Passion for Life 2010 was hard work!
Mission is hard work and it costs us to do it. It means that we stick our heads up and make some noise in our communities; it means inviting people to events and therefore introducing the risk of being known not only as Christians but as Christians who believe some serious things and want other people to believe the same.
Dr. William Lees, 1924 - 2013
Ray Porter
Date posted: 1 Jun 2013
Bill Lees died on March 14 in Reading where he had lived since 1966.
His earlier ministry in Malaysia had continued to be a major part of his life so that it was appropriate that the main address at his Thanksgiving Service was by Dr. Philip Lyn from Skyline Church, Kota Kinabalu, East Malaysia.
The Third Degree
And the award goes to...
Pod Bhogal
Date posted: 1 Jul 2013
Record numbers of Christian
Unions have been nominated for awards in 2013
Christian Unions have been
formally
recognised for their contribution to university life by either winning or being nominated
for a record-breaking 34 Students’ Union
(SU) awards in 2013.
Cheshire change
Peter Butler
Date posted: 1 Jul 2013
On May 4, Wheelock Heath Baptist
Church, Cheshire, met with friends for the
induction of Paul Gibson to the pastorate.
Over 160 members and friends met to give
thanks
to God
for answered prayer and
bringing Paul, Helen and their two children,
Sarah and Timothy, to Wheelock Heath. The
happy occasion was chaired by one of the
elders, Bob Baxter. Peter Butler, fellow elder,
gave a history of the call, speaking of biblical
leadership being a team effort. Paul responded by recalling the way the Lord had led him
in ministry to his arrival in Cheshire. Bryan
Jarvis, an elder from his previous church family in Leamington Spa, presented a warm
commendation of Paul’s character, gifts and
evident development and said that he and
Helen will
be
greatly missed.
Simon
Medcroft, Danbury Mission, Essex, performed the induction. Bill James spoke from
1 Peter 1-4, stating that an elder, overseer,
and shepherd is to be a pastor of God’s flock.
He is to be a servant of Christ, a witness and
sharer in Christ’s sufferings, dependent on
God for daily grace. He is to be a committed
leader and the love of Christ must be the
constraining influence.
Baker in Bournemouth
Nicky Findley
Date posted: 1 Jul 2013
The month of June marked the start of a
new era in the life of Lansdowne Baptist
Church (LBC) in Bournemouth, as Peter
Baker took over as senior minister.
More than 400 people gathered at LBC
from all over the UK to attend the official
welcome service for Peter and his wife Siân
on June 8. A further 120 also watched online
from 12 different countries.
The heroine who said nothing
Tom Chapman
Date posted: 1 Jul 2013
Pastor Tom Chapman remembers the life of a Christian missionary who saved Jewish children from the Holocaust
It is a great privilege to belong to a church with a history.
Pastoral care in nursing homes
Wes English
Date posted: 1 May 2013
I lead a pastoral team with a Christian charity, Mission Care, which provides nursing and residential care for vulnerable adults in South East London.
What kind of God?
David Gobbett
Date posted: 1 Apr 2013
Over 800 students each day in February heard compelling presentations of the Christian faith.
Richard Cunningham (Director of UCCF: The Christian Unions) spoke at the university mission in my first year as an undergraduate in Cambridge 17 years ago, and the student evangelism bug that I caught back then hasn’t left me. So it was especially thrilling to see him welcomed back by the Cambridge Inter-Collegiate Christian Union (CICCU) to speak at their ‘What Kind of God?’ mission event from February 4-8, alongside Os Guinness (respected author and social critic).
Truth unchanged, unchanging
Bruce Ware
Date posted: 1 Apr 2013
Ahead of his visit to the UK to speal at New Word Alive, EN caught up with Professor Bruce Ware and asked him a few questions.
EN: How did you come to know the Lord and how did you end up teaching theology at Southern Baptist Seminary?
BW: I was greatly blessed to have grown up with parents who were devoted to Christ and committed to his work. I trusted in Christ as my Saviour when I was six years old, and was baptised the following year. Both of my parents loved missions and missionaries, and gave sacrificially to help in a multitude of ways. Our home was the one that missionaries stayed in while visiting our church. My parents’ heart for missions was reflected in their desire that their children be exposed to missions work and, as a result, they sent me for a summer missions trip to Madagascar when I was 15 years old. You can imagine the impact that had on my young life.
