Rico’s recommendation
Pod Bhogal
Date posted: 1 Oct 2013
Evangelist Rico Tice suggests one resource which will help churches involved with A Passion For Life 2014
Pod Bhogal talks to Rico Tice, author of the Christianity Explored course about the importance of one-to-one personal work in evangelism, Seeker Bible studies and Uncover, UCCF’s latest gospel project which is now being adopted by local churches.
UK TRAINS THE WORLD!
Dr. Jonny Woodrow
Date posted: 1 Oct 2013
Over the last six years, a training ministry initially developed for a local church in the north of England now has a truly global impact.
The Porterbrook Network started in 2007 when church planters Steve Timmis and Tim Chester started work on a course that would equip Christians for mission and ministry in everyday life. It needed to appeal to busy Christians who couldn’t take a day a week for training. They wanted something that connected biblical theology to both heart change and mission. A key aim was to help men and women see mission as something to which they could contribute.
The result was Porterbrook Learning. It centred on biblical theology, character development and sound doctrine, as well as equipping people to speak the gospel into everyday life. It gave Christians a renewed vision for the centrality of the local church in mission, and trained people for evangelism and cultural engagement.
World: changes at OM
Daniel Bullock
Date posted: 1 Oct 2013
On September 1, Lawrence Tong took over
as
the new
international director
of
Operation Mobilisation (OM). He succeeded Peter Maiden who retired from the role
after serving
for
ten years and George
Verwer who founded OM in 1957.
Everyone expects big changes when a new
leader takes the reins. So what can we expect
from Lawrence? For the first time the position of international director will be filled
with a non-Westerner, Lawrence
is
from
Singapore and with that he brings his own
certain Global South
flavour. Another
noticeable change, as Lawrence puts it, is
that there will be ‘an intentional emphasis on
the globalisation of OM — to make OM
more user-friendly for non-Westerners’.
Oliver Barclay 1919 – 2013
One of the men who has had the greatest influence on post-war evangelicalism has gone to be with the Lord
Oliver Barclay, second General Secretary of IVF/UCCF, died at his home in Leicester on September 12, aged 94.
The Third Degree
Filling up at Forum
Pod Bhogal
Date posted: 1 Oct 2013
1,300 Christian Union
Leaders, UCCF staff and
Relay Workers attended
Forum 2013 —UCCF’s
national training event for
Christian Union Leaders.
The five-day residential training event (September 2-6) —which has grown from
300 students to over 1,000 since 2003 —
remains one the most important components of UCCF’s CU Leadership Training
Programme.
