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GfE Consultation May 7th '09 'For God's sake say something!'
GfE holds an Annual Consultation for the wider network and this year it will be headed 'For God's sake, say something!' We shall be having contributions from various people who have given thought, and have resources that look at how we share the Christian faith in the twenty first century. 'Proclamation in a Post Modern Context' would be a more theological title. Various papers will be produced and placed on this web site, national and regional evangelism officers will meet on the day, and resources produced from it for the wider church. As part of the consultation we would be very pleased to have stories from anyone engaged in sharing the Gospel that illustrates how you have engaged with language, message, words that relate to people in our modern context. Contact the secretary to submit suggestions. Churches Together in England have launched a website: Church in New Housing Areas
challenge for the mission agenda. With the 'credit crunch' and building industry cutbacks, the number may be less, but the chalenge remains. The Co-ordinating Group for New Communities has launched a new website to look at the three key issues of concern among church leaders:
We are keen for stories to be added to the site as we all learn from each others experience. Visit http://www.cinha.net Evangelism UK: news for the network GfE hosts a website of evangelism news and resources for the churches across the Four Nations covered by Churches Together in Britain and Ireland. Evangelism UK would be better described as: 'Evangelisation in Briatian and Ireland', but that is not easy to remember and search for on Google. The url is: www.evangelismuk.typepad.com This evangelism news website is aimed at providing brief headlines and website links on information as it comes in. Each entry is a seperate topic and come from a wide variety of people, places and organisations in the network. Aimed at helping the right hand know what the left is doing, it also provides an invaluable resource for the local church in mission. It is delivered automatically as email, while all previous posts are kept in the archive at Evangelism UK. The service is free for anyone in the evangelism network. We are happy to post relevant information the network might send to us. The intention is that the right hand knows what the left is doing; we can all pray for each other; build on and signpost to each others resources; with the aim of helping the churches work together in sharing the good news of Jesus Christ. |
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3 million new homes in England? That is one estimate and an enormous
