Bibles opened in Bulgaria
Thomas McBride
Date posted: 1 Oct 2023
Students from the UK have formed a mission team with UCCF to Bulgaria for the first time in eight years.
A team of students from university CUs across the Midlands, led by two staff from UCCF (the Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship), spent a fortnight teaching local students English while providing an opportunity to study God’s word with them.
‘Numerous’ conversions and baptisms in new network
Susie Leafe
Date posted: 1 Oct 2023
The Anglican Network in Europe (ANiE) is growing. Not just because churches are joining or because new churches are being planted – but because God is at work in the lives of ordinary men and women who want to profess their newfound faith in the Lord Jesus.
In June, Trinity Church, Scarborough posted online some fantastic photos (some of which are show here) of a service where nine of their congregation were baptised, which prompted the question, to a WhatsApp group of ANiE leaders, of where else this was happening,
Pain after report on Mike Pilavachi
Iain Taylor
Date posted: 1 Oct 2023
Churches and Christian organisations have spoken of their sadness and pain as the official report into well-known charismatic leader Mike Pilavachi said he displayed coercive and controlling behaviour at the church and had inappropriate relationships.
His actions included massaging young male interns and wrestling young men as he used his ‘spiritual authority to control people’.
Seniors’ champ
Faith in Later Life
Date posted: 1 Oct 2023
Faith
in Later Life
has announced
the
appointment
of
a
new Lead Officer,
Alexandra Drew, to
take forward its work
to inspire and equip
Christians to reach,
serve and empower older people in every
community, through the local church.
Alexandra (known as Alex) comes from
the West of England Baptist Network and
the Seventy-Two network, which describes
itself as ‘a catalyst for missional movement,
across England and Wales, through Baptist
networks.’