The conference may be over, but its reverberations will be felt for months and years to come. This year they already have videos available to view online of the main sessions, and both main sessions and training tracks are available as MP3s. My gorgeous wife has developed some more of her amazing photos from the event. These are available together with all the photos on flickr or to view as a slideshow here: Read more
The Swine Flu global epidemic is the first of the 24/7 media era. It seems the mainstream media can’t quite seem to decide whether to whip us all up into a panic with stories of children dying or lead us to total complacency with stories of swine flu parties and reassurance that the majority of deaths “had underlying medical problems anyway,” as though that makes it OK somehow! The reality is of course somewhere in between. There are healthy people... Read more
This video was recorded in exhibition area of the recent conference. Newfrontiers is ramping up its church planting efforts, watch and learn more about how. If it whets your appetite to find out more, do pop over to http://www.ukchurchplanting.org/ for more information or read Dave’s new book. Dave Stroud’s book is called “Planting Churches, Changing Communities” and is available for purchase. It can be delivered all over the world. Here is my brief review and endorsement of the book: Every... Read more
Church Planting in Zambia from Adrian Warnock on Vimeo. This video is the first of several interviews I will be sharing shot at the recent Together On A Mission Conference in Brighton. I thought I would start with this one as it demonstrates the breadth of Newfrontiers and its international flavor. I just love the fact that a church in the South West of England can help plant a church into Zambia! Andy Cottingham leads the Newfrontiers church in Honiton. Read more
It’s the time of year when I travel a lot. Perhaps you or someone you know are in the same boat or rather the same plane. Everyone is trying to fit in their meetings before the summer break. Once more I find myself sitting in the familiar Giraffe restaurant at Heathrow reflecting on what it is about this place that makes it so welcoming. There are few places like it in any airport in the world. Is it th decor?... Read more
This video was shown on the final morning and gives a good taster of what the event was like. If you have a blog of your own you can easily embed it yourself by clicking on the embed button and copy the html into the code of one of your posts. If you follow the link you can also see the video in HD. Together On a Mission Conference, Brighton Highlights from Newfrontiers on Vimeo. Read more
Newfrontiers has made available some mp3s from the recent Together On A Mission Conference. These will be followed shortly by the rest of the sessions and then by video. Notes for all the main sessions are available on my blog. Read more
1 Samuel 14 Joel felt that God wants to speak in this session to the team players, not team leaders. You carry significant responsibility but are not the “main guy” so the focus of this talk is not on Jonathan but his armor bearer. There is real strength in plurality. As one man stands on his own before God he can accomplish great things. But when a team stands you are more than the sum of your parts. Deut 32:30 Moses said one shall chase... Read more
We are a family of churches. Its not a Bible phrase as such, but it is something we value highly. It comes from the very heart of God. We don’t want to abandon the idea of a community. The people related to one another. Denominations tend to be static, associated with rules and regulations. They have headquaters. Don’t tend to be charismatic even if they started that. We resist being called a denomination. We have called ourselves an apostolic sphere. Why? 1.... Read more
God is not dead as the book recently written by the editor of the Economist said. We do have a voice. We can have a voice. What can we do? What will we do with the influence that God is giving us? Dave read Daniel 1. He explained that the goal here was to put Babylon into the brightest people. He changes their names first. Jewish names have theological significance, but the Babylonian names were related to the Babylonian gods.... Read more
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