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Apologies – I never thought I would quote a Lionel Ritchie song in the title of a blog post but there you go! But we are excited to let you know about Fiesta in London in July which will be a festival for pioneers and others involved in making a better world especially in their …
Mark and Jess Bamping launch their community hub – Candid Beer in Stafford this weekend. Mark loves beer and I am sure will brew as well as serve up decent local and creative independent craft beers. But the driver is community and rather than calling it a cafe or pub it’s a community hub. Mark …
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It was exciting this month to see Out Of The Box cards launch a kickstarter campaign and raise their target within one week to get their enterprise underway. Jenny Baker brought that idea to Make Good three years ago this November. During the week she explored the idea, refined it, knocked it around, thought about …
Read moreMake Good – still places available in November to kickstart your idea
We’re excited to announce that a pioneer hub is launching in London in 2019! This is a partnership between CMS and London Diocese (through the Centre for Church planting and Growth) and is aimed at people who want to start something new in mission and are working full time. It will be delivered over a …
If you are at Greenbelt Festival next weekend we hope to see you there! Here’s a few places we’ll be. Come and say hi. Friday, 24th August 6.30pm, The Shelter – Jonny Baker with Grace and Proost will be curating creative worship. 8pm, The Jesus Arms – Join us for a chat and a drink. …
Pioneering Youth Ministry is the focus of the new edition of Anvil journal which is online free as either pdf or individual articles to read online. It is guest edited by the wonderful John Wheatley. He takes the four youthwork values of informal education, equality of opportunity, participation and empowerment with an article commissioned on each …
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Over the bank holiday at the end of May, a combined team, including pioneers from CMS, Church Army and Eden People, offered a place of hospitality, prayer and prophetic insight for attendees at the Mind, Body, Spirit Festival 2018 held at the Olympia Exhibition Centre in London.
Earlier this year I read Stefan Paas’ book on Church Planting in The Secular West. It’s a fabulous book. It’s sobering in that he basically says the ground is hard so it’s going to be slow hard work. He also looks at some of the research and politely (well sort of Dutch polite) says it’s …
Future Present is a full colour zine that seeks to imagine a different kind of world. It was sparked by the pioneer conversations day in 2016 where we invited people to take an area of life , imagine a different future and think about how to act now to make that world arrive in the …
Oh, what a week! My brain has just about recovered from an intensive and exciting week of training in the form of the Make Good module delivered at Cliff college, as part of my CMS training. So, an exciting course, delightful surroundings, good food, and hot weather – what’s not to like? Seriously though, as …