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.
A new venture in Chester
United Beach Missions
Date posted: 1 Aug 2013
In the historic city of Chester in June, 50
nationalities were reached with the gospel
during a new venture for United Beach
Missions (UBM).
For the first time, Christian Answer, the
open-air arm of UBM, took a diverse team
to the cathedral city for a week of open-air
preaching, an exhibition stand and literature
table, questionnaire work and an international café evening.
Snapshots of China
Ray Porter
Date posted: 1 Aug 2013
Book Review
AFTER IMPERIALISM
Christian identity in China and The Global
Evangelical Movement
Read review
Evangelism out in the open
Andy Banton
Date posted: 1 Jul 2013
Andy Banton celebrates a great anniversary for the Open-Air Mission
It is sometimes said that you can make statistics say anything.
WEST gains Mike Reeves
WEST
Date posted: 1 Sep 2013
WEST has announced the appointment of
Dr. Michael Reeves to the full-time faculty
from September 2013.
As Theologian-at-Large, Mike will spearhead a major new initiative to make theology more accessible to all. This
innovative
project will put quality theological education
within the financial and geographical reach
of all who need it.
news in brief
Algeria: protest
Around 200 people ate together at a public
lunch in the town of Tizi Ouzou on August
3 to protest against the ‘persecution of non-fasters and creeping Islamisation’ in the
Kabylie region in northern Algeria.
Another picnic was held simultaneously in
the town of Aokas in the neighbouring
Béjaïa province, which attracted over 100
people. In Algeria, where Islam is the state
religion, breaking the Ramadan fast in public is punishable by fine and imprisonment.
Keswick: glorious weeks
Keswick Ministries
Date posted: 1 Sep 2013
The annual Keswick Convention held during July and early August saw an estimated
12,000-15,000 people visit for bible study
and worshipping God together.
Weeks of almost unbroken sunshine went
together with record attendances. Around
3,700 people were at the Bible readings with
Oxford University mathematician Professor
John Lennox, plus around 800 children and
young people in groups. A 95-year-old local
lady, Sally, was there again: she has been
coming to the Convention since she was five!
ENGAGING OUR CITIES
Jonny Dyer
Date posted: 1 Jul 2013
In 1800, 2% of the world’s population lived in cities.
By 1900 that figure was 12%. Today 52% of us are city dwellers and by 2050 it is estimated that will rise to 70%.
Elizabeth Braund 1921 – 2013
Robert Musgrave
Date posted: 1 Jul 2013
Elizabeth Margaret Braund MBE passed away on May 20 at her home, East Shallowford Farm on Dartmoor.
She was 91 years old. Born in Kensington in 1921, she was the only child of His Honour Judge Sir Henry and Lady Margaret Braund. Her early years and life experiences in India and Burma encouraged her ability to think critically and after the war she began to work for the BBC, writing scripts and undertaking research. One unlikely research project was the history of the Bible for a radio series, but under God this began the journey that led to her life’s work.
God is your life
Peter Baker
Date posted: 1 Jul 2013
When a pastor moves churches it gives him time to reflect
Peter Baker was senior pastor at Highfields Church, Cardiff, for 18 years.
Youth Leaders
A Barnabas spirit...
Dave Fenton
Date posted: 1 Aug 2013
We’re all quite good at
structure these days.
We have our aims, objectives, values and
mission statements and, generally, these have
improved the way we do things. There is
more
training around, particularly
in all
these fields, but I wonder if our training
stretches to, or even includes, the way we
deal with people.
Should ministers work?
Jonny Raine
Date posted: 1 Aug 2013
Dear Editor,
There is a common conception that it is
best for ministers to have a long spell in secular employment before undertaking ministry,
as was articulated in a letter in the June edition of EN. I would suggest that this is a
flawed idea.
Ministry women equipped
Karen Soole
Date posted: 1 Aug 2013
There is one conversation that is repeated
often; it is the one about what women can’t
do in ministry.
Media hostility has
increased
towards
those who believe the Bible teaches comple-mentarianism, because
restricting church
leadership to men is considered unjust. The
underlying implication is that women who
teach women are inferior and succumbing to
the second best option. With this in mind,
the North West Gospel Partnership decided
that the time had come to encourage women
in the ministries that they can do.
Wales: from
North to South
EMW
Date posted: 1 Aug 2013
In early July the Evangelical Movement of
Wales helped with the running of two
outreaches.
The
first was at Bangor (North Wales)
where Ebenezer Evangelical Church and
Capel y Ffynnon ran a bilingual mission.
JOY AT IRANIAN BAPTISMS
JEB / Elam Ministries
Date posted: 1 Aug 2013
Elam Ministries reports that 246 people were baptised as Christians at a service on April 17.
Those baptised included 228 Iranians, 17 Afghans and one person from Pakistan. The service took place in a swimming pool at a secret location in a country bordering Iran to avoid interference from the Iranian authorities.
London churches growing
JEB
Date posted: 1 Aug 2013
At the instigation of London City Mission
(LCM) a comprehensive study of churches
in London was carried out last year. The
results have now been published and there
is much which is encouraging.
The research was carried out by the Brierley
Consultancy and LCM were particularly
interested to see what information could be
gathered which related
to
the extent and
effectiveness of church planting in the capital.
The Third Degree
Stafford CU online
Pod Bhogal
Date posted: 1 Aug 2013
The University of Staffordshire
Christian Union has started
streaming evangelistic
meetings live on the internet
for students to enjoy from
the comfort of their own hall
of residence.
The Christian Union — which is made up
of just 12 students — decided to live stream
CU meetings because of the high tech and
internet
savvy
nature
of
Staffordshire
University students.
Bible, boomers and below
Chris Wright
Date posted: 1 Jun 2013
‘Hey, Dad, the sermon today was 1 hour 7 minutes and 20 seconds long. All in Portuguese.’
My gap-year daughter was on her regular Sunday collect-call home from her short-term mission placement in Brazil. ‘So I spent the time memorising the books of the Bible. Do you want to know what they are? Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus….’ My first thought was: ‘I’m paying for this call while you rattle off all the books of the Bible’. My second was: ‘Isn’t it great that my teenage daughter wants to knows her way around the Bible?’
Dr. William Lees, 1924 - 2013
Ray Porter
Date posted: 1 Jun 2013
Bill Lees died on March 14 in Reading where he had lived since 1966.
His earlier ministry in Malaysia had continued to be a major part of his life so that it was appropriate that the main address at his Thanksgiving Service was by Dr. Philip Lyn from Skyline Church, Kota Kinabalu, East Malaysia.
