Opinionated Vicar

If you know anyone who is thinking about training in youth work and church leadership then please point them towards this . It's the out...

St Johns Nottingham, where I studied in the 1990s, has just announced some radical changes . Basically, they will stop taking in full time r...

Make Lunch is a national network based on the simple idea of providing free meals during school holidays for the families who qualify for i...

The Church of England is going national with an internship progamme already running in pilot form in some dioceses. Here's one example ...

The Church of England has just published a new discipleship resource , roughly 2 millennia after Jesus made discipleship the top priority fo...

Last year we used an excellent course for Lent, ' Your SHAPE for God's Service ', designed to help people discern their own gift...

How welcoming is your church? How welcoming is the building? How good is your publicity? Nice, general, impossible to answer questions, guar...

Delighted to see that this training day with Stuart Murray Williams is being repeated in Bristol in October. Details at http://incarnate-net...

I've a lot of time for the Baptist Union mission department. Not only do they have some excellent and concise resources online , but the...

Just had the latest events listing from the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity (LICC) which includes 5000 library books being gi...

Christian Vision for Men (CVM) are having an event in Yeovil next month, here's some blurb: Saturday 14th November 2009 9.30am - 4.30pm...

Trying to pull various things together into 1 place: Mission 21 church planting conference in Bath, November 17-19th Christians Together in...

SOMERSET CHURCHES TOGETHER AUTUMN FORUM 2009 Christians Together in a Spiritual Age Saturday, 17 October 2009 10.00 am – 3.45 pm (Registrati...

Just in.... The Churches Coordinating Group for Evangelisation (GfE) is a sponsor of the forthcoming Mission 21 conference which will bring ...

Eddie Gibbs is coming to Bristol to do a couple of mission study days: The Morphing of the Church 10.00am—5.15pm 24th June How megatrends a...

10-12 March ’09 A Practical Introduction to Rural Ministy , Dulverton, Devon. Run by the SW Churches Rural Officers. More information from F...

Resources from Care for the Family : a good leaflet on debt and families, available free to download here . Events listing , including natio...

The South-West CRE happens near Exeter on 29-31st January, summary details here , and you can view the full event brochure too . Seminars in...

1. New Mission Enabler job in Bath & Wells Diocese , advert on Start the Week , brief job spec. here . Given that we're involved in ...

In my inbox today, looks like a good training event on worship, and a good quality line-up: A major worship event in the Southwest... Ancien...