Upping the game for world mission in the local church

25 06 2010

Linda Harding
The ‘Seize the Day’ podcast for July is now online. In it, John Ayrton is talking to Linda Harding about the Kairos missions mobilising course for local churches.

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Creative engagement with your local Muslim community

6 04 2010

The April ‘Seize the Day’ podcast is now online.

In it, John Ayrton talks to Peter Lowman about his church’s experience of creative engagement with their local Muslim community, and I talk to Tony Whittaker about Internet Evangelism Day 2010.

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What can we learn from churches in developing countries?

26 02 2010

Elaine Storkey

The ‘Seize the Day’ podcast for March is now available. In it we’re talking to Elaine Storkey, President of Christian relief agency Tearfund, about what the church in the west can learn from the church in developing countries.

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Clusters – making the transition

29 01 2010

Bob Hopkins

The February ‘Seize the Day’ podcast is now online.

In it we’re talking again to Bob Hopkins, of Anglican Church Planting Initiatives, about the ‘Clusters’ model of church – also known as ‘mid-sized missional communities.’ In this, the third of three conversations with Bob, we’re talking about how to make the transition to a clusters-based church.

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Involving your local community in mission

28 08 2009

Roger Sutton

The September ‘Seize the Day’ podcast is now online. In it I’m talking to Roger Sutton (until recently pastor of Altrincham Baptist Church) about their experience of involving their local community with them in mission to Uganda.

Also in this podcast, we’re starting a short series of features on using films in outreach. John Ayrton talks to Richard Blakely about the film ‘Coraline,’ and we review Tony Watkins’ book ‘Focus: the art and soul of cinema.’

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How churches can change how they approach mission

30 04 2009

Bryan Knell

The May ‘Seize the Day’ podcast is now online.

In it we’re talking again to Bryan Knell from Global Connections. This month he’s making some suggestions about how churches can change their approach to mission.

I’m also joined on this programme by John Ayrton, the pastor of Portswood Church in Southampton. I hope John is going to be co-hosting the podcast in future. (I’ll declare an interest: John and I were school friends, and he was my best man, so I have a slight bias here.)

We’re talking about contemporary spirituality and the idea that a spiritual orientation is ‘hard-wired’ into us biologically.

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Churches taking ownership of mission

23 03 2009

Bryan Knell

The ‘Seize the Day’ podcast for April is now online. My guest on the programme this month is Bryan Knell, Church Relations Director at Global Connections, the UK network of mission agencies. Bryan is talking about churches taking ownership of mission.

In this programme I’m also talking about Lily Allen’s no.1 hit song ‘The Fear,’ and about Mike Frost and Al Hirsch’s new book ‘ReJesus: a wild Messiah for a missional church.’

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