Jesus is my bulldozer
6 July 2015
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I have written a piece Jesus is my bulldozer! for fresh expressions. It’s a reflection on the recent Missio Africanus day which was at CMS.
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Missio Africanus – new journal
13 May 2015
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I was blown away when I read the first issue of a new journal Missio Africanus this morning. It’s available free online as a download and the articles are so interesting. And don’t think it’s only
How I’d Like To Be Led
4 June 2013
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Today at CMS we begin a module on mission leadership. Kim (who will do the module next year) enthuses here about leadership and pioneers inspired by an article in the Harvard Business Review. She concludes As
Pioneering in Seoul
4 May 2013
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I was invited to visit the Diocese of Seoul by Rev Ambrose Kim, well known to CMS Asia and to CMS in Britain. This was something of a surprise but I felt that it was a
Tales of a Pioneer – those first months…
21 March 2013
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Rob Ryan is a pioneer in Gillingham. He has recently moved from working in Rochester and this makes for something of a new start. We have discussed on the course what it is that you do
Kim offers a robust response to the Archbishop’s lent book
20 February 2013
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It’s kind of depressing that there are still area of the church that are negative about fresh expressions of church and want to hold on to the parish system as the answer to everything. If it
Measuring Success?
21 January 2013
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Annie Kirke reflects on her experience in pioneer ministry and the challenge of measuring success [on the Fresh Expressions website]. She floats the idea of measures like these… As new measurables for professed and unprofessed disciples
Is there a theology for pioneering?
4 September 2012
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Bishop Graham Cray has an article in IDEA magazine entitled Is there a theology for pioneering? which is well worth a read. He ends up saying Through the Holy Spirit, the Church is a pioneering missionary
Sink or Swim
24 February 2011
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Back in December 2009 we had two days dreaming ideas for the Pioneer Mission Leadership Training. One of the things that came out of that creative time was the notion of Sink or Swim. It really
How Did We Get Here?
23 February 2011
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The Pioneer Mission Leadership Training hasn’t just landed out of the blue as the latest good idea from CMS – it’s been brewing for a while! Lots of people imagine that mission, perhaps especially for CMS,