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Escalating Success

Jennie Pollock
Thursday 29 Dec 2011

When faced with seemingly-intractable problems, city chiefs need to think laterally. The problem presenting itself may not be the one which most needs to be tackled, at least not directly.

In this video Hannah from Mosaic Church in Leeds talks about some of the things that she is doing to affect her community as well as some of the other ways that the church is serving the people there.

The Challenge of Everything

Natalie WIlliams
Thursday 20 Oct 2011

A couple of years ago I was at a church meeting for leaders where we were asked to discuss in groups what we felt God had specifically called us to. As each person in my group began to share about their call to leading worship, eldership, children’s ministry in the church, discipleship, etc., I started to feel a little nervous about my answer. My turn came last, and I was almost apologetic as I explained that I felt called to – dare I say it – my secular field of employment.

Working for change in my community

Tim Frisby
Wednesday 7 Sep 2011

Think of your perfect town... what would it have? What would it not have? Now how can you make a difference, right now, right where you live?

N.T. Wright - Keep the Faith

Liam Thatcher
Monday 22 Aug 2011

Tom Wright, former Bishop of Durham, wrote a provocative piece in The Spectator last weekend, in which he argued that though the godless may mock, it’s not yet time for Christians to clamour for the lifeboats!

Reaching the fatherless generation

Tom Avery
Friday 19 Aug 2011

As I write the debate rages as to the causes of the recent riots and spates of looting that swept through England’s major cities. Some will point to the growing level of youth unemployment, which is currently around 20% compared to 7.9% nationally. Others will attribute the violence to the funding cuts, which have decimated the youth sector. Many will cast their stones at parents and teachers.

Mending the broken windows

Jennie Pollock
Wednesday 10 Aug 2011

Social networking was used to draw hundreds onto London’s streets yesterday. Armed and ready to do battle, they descended on Clapham, Brixton and Hackney. Units later broke out in Manchester and Birmingham. Yet these gangs were not armed with face-masks and firebombs; they came with bin bags and brooms. Their goal was not to tear down and destroy, but to cleanse and to heal.

Fusion: Training parents to strengthen families

Katy Phillips
Friday 11 Feb 2011

In 2004, two women began running parenting courses in a school in a deprived area of Dorset. At that time, neither of them could have envisaged the journey they had begun…