'Seize the Day' podcast #5 - June 2009: Bryan Knell talks about how mission agencies need to change. (21 mins)

'I talked to an agency the other day, and they were saying 'We're putting on this orientation programme for our new folk.' And I said, 'Is there anybody coming to that orientation course from other groups or other churches that are not signed-up members of your organisation?' 'Oh no,' they said. and I said 'Well that's a great shame. There may well be churches out there who are interested in sending people to the Middle East, who would benefit from this. You do a good job in this, so you could provide a service and obviously they would come and pay.... '

This is the third part of our conversation with Bryan Knell, Church Relations Director at Global Connections, the network of UK Mission Agencies.

Follow up the features in this programme:

'The Spiritual Revolution: why religion is giving way to spirituality,' by Paul Heelas, Linda Woodhead and others'

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For more on this research, visit the Kendal Project web site.

If you'd like to think further about what Bryan says about how mission agencies need to change, we recommend his booklet 'Churches and Agencies in Partnership,' published by Global Connections.