musings on leadership in ministry
The URC is about to enter into the first year of its Vision 4 Life project. When I say ‘about to’ that’s obviously church speak for in 6 months. So hear’s my tuppence worth on V4L… I like the idea. I think that encouraging our congregations to engage with ‘The Bible’, ‘Prayer’ and ‘Evangelism’ is Read More …
This is our children and youth work strategy visualised as a word cloud by wordle.
I’m about to head off to Carberry Tower near Edinburgh for 24 hours to our Synod Programme Committees. On the agenda for me are Children and Communion and Safeguarding as well as working with the Children and Youth Ministry Committee on our future plans for the Synod Youth Forum and some other stuff in the Read More …
iChurch is, in my humble opinion, the best idea I’ve seen in ages. If you are a URC congregation who either wants a website but think it is too hard to set up and run or are paying for web hosting, trying to design and update your site and all that then ichurch is the Read More …
Ramble Alert! OK. I’m not sure where this post is going but stick with me and hopefully it will get somewhere… I’m working on some aims and objectives for my job. I tell everyone I train to do it so it’s practice what you preach time. The thing is… I can write down the stuff Read More …
Here’s a plea for all those people who are dots on the clustr map around the world. We’re working on a project for Pentecost to collect lots of languages reading Acts 2:1-6. So, if you speak anything other than English and could record yourself reading this short passage and email it to me as an Read More …
Tonight I’ve been invited to be on the panel for an open community discussion at Shawlands URC in Glasgow (map). The topic is ‘What role can the Church play in the community?’ and I’ve been asked to speak about the church and young people. There are another two speakers and the local MP was to Read More …