LCM: planting in Samaria
London City Mission
Date posted: 1 Nov 2014
London City Mission (LCM) held its annual Thanksgiving Service on September 17 with guest speaker Andy Paterson, Mission Director with FIEC, inspiring and motivating LCM staff and supporters alike as he called on them not to lose their nerve or to give up on sharing the gospel verbally.
He also challenged LCM to: ‘Help plant and support indigenous gospel-hearted churches with some of the brilliant evangelists that you have. You need to work with those churches so that they effectively welcome and grow people who are coming to faith in Christ. Please use your expertise to develop a generation of working-class church leaders’. Thirdly, he impressed upon the LCM the role it has to play in helping to train and equip churches in London to cross cultural boundaries and create truly multiracial, multi-ethnic churches in London.
Directed conversations?
Reform / Christian Today
Date posted: 1 Nov 2014
On October
1,
the Reform Council
expressed its dismay that the objectives of
the
‘Shared Conversations on Scripture,
Sexuality and Mission’ had been changed.
As a result orthodox Anglicans had been, in
effect, excluded.
It has called on its members not to participate under these conditions.
Portugal: a strategic work for the gospel
Stephen West
Date posted: 1 Nov 2014
It is 30 years since the Communist regime forced Fabiano to leave his home country of Mozambique with nothing. He was already serving the church there and was recognised by the African Inland Mission as a potential leader. They were his only contact on his arrival in Britain, knowing no English.
He immediately entered Moorlands College in Hampshire – learning Greek and English. Subsequently he obtained a degree at London Bible College and in 1988 married Suzana, who had emigrated from Mozambique to Portugal.
Somerset’s spiritual milk
Andrew Paterson
Date posted: 1 Nov 2014
On September 27, Edington Chapel in Somerset held a welcome and commissioning service for Matthew Edwards, as a pastoral church worker on a part-time basis.
Matthew worked for ten years with the Open Air Mission. The chapel is rejoicing that God has guided them to this new venture of employing Matthew to help in outreach to the community, re-starting children’s work and building up and encouraging the church fellowship. Matthew and his wife, Sandra, have been living in central Cardiff and have now relocated to a small village in Somerset and are living in a converted milking parlour.
Hands on in Cambridge
Chris Akhurst
Date posted: 1 Nov 2014
September 7 saw friends and family of Steve and Lynsey Auld gather with the congregation of Eden Baptist Church, Cambridge, for Steve’s ordination to pastoral ministry and induction as assistant pastor at Eden.
Steve and Lynsey have two young sons, Hudson and Elliot, and are from Northern Ireland. Steve played rugby for Ireland in the Under 19 Rugby World Cup in 2003. After graduating from Queen’s, Belfast, Steve served as youth pastor at Elmwood Presbyterian Church, Lisburn, from 2005 to 2009, before going to Madagascar with Africa Inland Mission as part of a church-planting team. From there he went to Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Illinois, where Don Carson was his academic advisor.