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THANKSGIVING
Fresh Expressions as a ‘movement’ continues to grow, with more people within the Church hearing about it and engaging with it through the training courses, vision days and Diocesan & District tours.
The launch of the mission shaped congregations DVD ROM in the near future will enable people in local churches to discover and explore it in their immediate community. And many fresh expressions of church are continuing to follow the Spirit’s lead in finding ways of helping folk who don’t go near a church to become more aware of God in their everyday lives, and to respond to the good news of Jesus.
We give thanks for the Board’s support for strategic appointments for Phase 2. Pray for Sheonagh Ormrod as she settles in to her appointment as full time administrator. Give thanks for the appointment of Ben Clymo as our new Manager of Resources. Pray for the much-needed appointment of a senior writer/media officer and for the future appointment of the new team leader’s PA.
Give thanks for Bishop Graham Cray and pray for him as he settle into his work as Archbishop’s Missioner and Team Leader.
Share
Mike Moynagh gives thanks for the many and varied examples of fresh expressions around the country, including rural, urban, and young peoples’. Pray for ways to share the learning that is within these, so that others might be inspired.
We are developing the web-based Share Community. Similar in style to Facebook, it will enable practitioners to network and learn from each other. Pray for all the preparations in the lead-up to its late-summer launch.
Pray for 'Learning Networks Co-ordinator' Beth Keith as she develops and supports learning networks across the country.
Diocese and District Synods Tour
Our tour of the country’s Diocese and Districts Synods continues throughout the autumn. Pray for those presenting stories of fresh expressions and for the Synod members, and for good communication of the vision; that more ‘permission-givers’ will grasp it and encourage, enable and resource fresh expressions of church in their areas.
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We continue to receive positive feedback about the course and its impact from various regions of the country.
Give thanks for the Church of Scotland’s response to running msm there, and pray for that course, as well as those now running in Cardiff and Belfast
Pray for the development of churches, diocese and districts using vision days, msi and msm courses to get fresh expressions embedded in their areas.
Festivals
Pray for engagement with Christian festivals, especially as a means of envisioning young people about fresh expressions.
Pray for Ben Gardner as he coordinates our representation with festival organisers.
Website
Pray for development, especially for more people to find and use it to enable and encourage fresh expressions of church in their area.
Specific prayer requests
As Colin Brown takes up a new post this summer, pray for the secondment of the next Church Army officer to the team.
Pray also for the provision of someone to cover the vital area of spirituality and prayer.
Give thanks for the good report on the budget from the Lambeth Partners AGM. Pray for further funding that needs to be raised for Phase 2, especially in these times of international financial difficulty
Give thanks for Rachel Westall and her work for FE over the past 5 years as PA to the team leader. Pray for her as she leaves the team in May.
Pray for Gill Powell as she temporarily takes on the work of PA to the team leader.
Pray for the appointment of a senior writer/media officer to the initiative to enable good communication in all types and levels of media
Pray for meetings with the country’s larger churches to promote and enable their engagement with fresh expressions
Pray for our research into discipleship and how to support this vital element in all types of fresh expression of church
Give thanks for the discipleship pages that are now posted on Share. [link] . Also for the increased visits to the site and the sharing of experience and learning that people are now posting there through blogs etc.
Pray for Beth Keith and her work in encouraging and enabling learning networks amongst practitioners throughout the country
Give thanks for the many msm centres continuing to run the course. Pray for our review of the course and its development. Pray for those centres seeking to multiply the course. Pray for York, London and Scotland as they consider running msm in their area.
The tour of Diocesan and District Synods is going well. Continue to pray for this exercise in engaging at this level with our church structures.
Pray for our presence at the forthcoming General Synod and Methodist Conference, and for reports to them about fresh expressions of church
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