Our context The gospel need in the UK is greater than it has ever been in the last 450 years Conservative evangelicalism is stronger than it has ever been in the last 50 years thegospelpartnershipsorguk ID: 274477
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Progress, Opportunities and ChallengesSlide3
Our contextThe gospel need in the UK is greater than it has ever been in the last 450 years
Conservative evangelicalism is stronger than it has ever been in the last 50 yearsSlide4
thegospelpartnerships.org.ukSlide5
...the gracious handof our God...
Ezra 9:18Slide6
goals for the next
years
7
4
2011Slide7
To extend the Partnershipfrom 40+ to 60+ churches in year four
35 Partner churches
30 Individual Partners
55 churches represented overall
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To extend the Partnershipfrom 40+ to 60+ churches in year four
Who could join?
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To deepen our partnership
Warmth of Partnership Meetings
Relationships/Trust
Cluster Groups
(geographical/common situation)
Prayer together; preaching groups
Eating together; consulting one another
Shared evangelism and training
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To deepen our partnership
Can we do more?
In cluster groups
Praying/working together
Pulpits swaps
Avoiding isolation
Expertise sharing/mentoring/work shadowing
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To develop and extend training across the Partnership
Development of SMTC
(
Haywards
Heath)
Four Saturday Courses
(various locations)
250 students
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To develop and extend training across the Partnership
Saturday Course
Sept 2014 – EAST: Eastbourne
3
rd
year option for former students
Sept 2015 – WEST:
Angmering
/Chichester?
Sept 2016 – CENTRAL: Lindfield/Brighton?
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To develop and extend training across the Partnership
How can we make sure people benefit?
Don’t give up promoting the courses!
Personal encouragement; Use former students
Encourage former students to take up further training
Spread the word
Use the short courses
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To multiply the number of ministry trainees
Currently 15 individuals in 14 churches
A further 14 churches have had trainees
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Workers for the harvest fieldSlide16
To multiply the number of ministry traineesRecruiting trainees?
Year out for God
Developing student work/links
Thinking outside the box
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To develop Youthwork across
the partnership
Come and See
Training
Programme
Sorted by the sea
Lovewise
team
Networking paid
youthworkers
(Revive)
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To develop Youthwork across the
partnership
Continue
Come and See
?
Replicate
Sorted by the sea
?
Expand the
Lovewise
work?Repeat Revive?What else?
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To increase cooperation in evangelismExtend effective cooperation in Evangelism across the Partnership building up to
A Passion for Life 2014
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To increase cooperation in evangelismWork together more effectively?
Sharing resources
Working together locally
Opening up events
Making use of Glen and Martin
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To plant and revitalise churches10 churches planted or revitalised
over four years
Challenges and disappointments
Perseverance being rewarded
Congregations multiplying
A long way to go
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To plant and revitalise churchesOpenness to a variety of approaches
Starting brand new churches
Multiplying congregations
Breathing new life into churches in decline
Restoring a gospel ministry to a
gospel-less
church
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To plant and revitalise churches
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Questions and commentThe next four years?Slide25
Challenges and Encouragements in the local churchSlide26
Three Bridges Free ChurchCrawley
Colin JonesSlide27
Emmanuel ChurchHastings
Martin LaneSlide28
Calvary Church
Brighton
(1m
)
Phil Wells
Formerly Brighton Railway Mission – to reach working people
Morning congregation ~ 60 including kids
Committed
membership of 27+ ,12 of whom are wage-earners
Three full-time workers
Situated at the end of a shopping street moving from street-drinking to cocktail drinkingSlide29
Biggest challenge (2m)
Is actually (for me) just to keep going in a godly way
For the church – to raise enough money to buy the freehold of the building
£162,500 = £40k+£40k+£80k(loan)
Via gift day #1 … = £74.2k
Gift day #2 = £50.6k
Leaving £37.4k to find
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Biggest
encouragements
(2m)
N.B.
encouragement <> progress
N.B.
encouragement ~~ significance
Passion4Life / out on London Road for an hour each morning offering Word-1-2-1 = Read John's gospel for 1 hour
2 friends came the previous Sunday, various readings also occurred beforehandSlide31
Biggest
encouragements
(2m)
Good conversations during the week
(e.g. Eddy at Kodak Shop; Ami at the “
Hempworks
” Shop )
One contact and one family the next Sunday
One request to do 1-2-1
(
never yet made good
)