A great resource to share

Brilliant testimonies - check 'em out!

Hi everyone

We (that is, The Good Book Company that I work for) have just launched a new website designed to help people with questions about faith have them answered in a straightforward and simple way. I'm sure that you will find it an excellent place to point the teenagers in your group and others you are connected with. Some really excellent testimonies from a whole variety of people that would be helpful to share as well.

www.christianityexplored.org

Would love you to check it out, pass it on, blog it up, tweet it down, facebook it across, and generally big it over. It has been know for some people to actually speak to each other face to face about things as well - weird but true!

Be massively grateful for feedback, as the development of this site will be a long-term project for us, but here are some of the things we've tried to do well that is new or unique:

1. Simple, biblical, modern. Our review of other gospel websites out there that are "non-Christian friendly" basically produced a pretty patchy haul. Some of them do some things extremely well, but few embody a strongly biblical approach, and at the same time are attractive, have decently shot video content. They tend to be text heavy, and hard to navigate. Hoping that we have done some of those things well. The aim was simplicity, clarity, and ease of use, with longer text things being secondary to the video content.
2. International faces and voices. Variety of backgrounds. We've got some big hitters in there, but plenty of "ordinary joes" as well.
3. Ongoing development. We've a plan to continue development over the next 5 years to make sure that it remains up to date, with changing content. 
4. We aim to help local churches do the work of evangelism - rather than do it ourselves. The site is designed to support local churches in their evangelistic efforts, by providing a resource that supports your work, and points people who find the site randomly back to local churches where they can hear the gospel in the context of the gospel community.
5. Designed to work "gently" with CE, but not a platform for its naked promotion. If you don't know it, Christianity Explored is an Alpha-style course that takes people through the Gospel of Mark. It's huge worldwide, but not that well known in the US yet. In other words, there is some CE course content in there, but we hope it is subtle enough that even churches that are not using the programme will find this website a great resource for helping others towards faith.

Enjoy.

The inoffensive gospel

Dorling Kindersley have just released two sticker books - one Old T, one New T. As you would expect with any DK product, they are beautifully produced and illustrated. Any family - or indeed primary school - would be happy to give them house room.

But actually that's the problem. They're beautiful, fun to use - and completely inoffensive. There's no gospel content at all - and Bible characters are given praise that's due to God. So Daniel was "a very smart man who interpreted writings", who had "followers" kneeling before him. Paul, likewise, is praised for having "the gift of healing". But you have to look hard to spot these things (they're by the stickers, not the main text) - and maybe you think I'm nit-picking.

But what really struck me is how easy it is to present a Bible story in a way that seems faithful to Scripture, and yet has no heart to it. The two pages on the crucifixion and resurrection describe some of what happened, but give no mention of why. No wonder it's inoffensive.

But the gospel should be offensive! It tells us we're helpless and hopeless without Christ. It's a challenge to me to be careful when choosing children's books - to check they are faithful not just to the events in a Bible story, but also the purposes of the living God, and how each event fits in His great story of redemption.

Leading questions

Just a note to say that the excellent talks from the 2010 Bible Centred Youthwork conference Wise Up are now online. You can read a list on this website here. I think this conference was outstanding for a number of reasons - not least Steve' s insightful morning talks from Ecclesiastes. But check out the seminar material as well. Some brilliant stuff on special needs, marriage, sexuality, and helping parents of teenagers.

Marketing your ministry

Here's the outline for Rory Bell's excellent seminar from the BCY conference on Marketing your Ministry. The title's a bit misleading in a way, because it's not a seminar about advertising or promoting the various clubs or groups that you run.

It's all about a vital, but often un-recognised leadership skill that anyone involved in Gospel ministry needs to have a handle on. It's about how you encourage, influence and share your vision for ministry with the your co-workers, the children and parents you are involved with, and your minister!

Check out the audio talk here on the Good Book Company website.


Marketing Your Ministry
Leadership requires the ability to sell a vision. Sometimes people are less eager to buy into what you are trying to achieve than you'd like them to be. Sometimes these “reluctant customers” may be your church leadership! Learn how to sell your vision for Biblecentred children's and youth ministry in a God-honouring and winsome way.


Management vs Leadership

• Leading Down 
• Leading Across
• Leading Up

Identify Whom You Need to Influence (sell your vision to)
Pray - about:

• Your goals – why is this change necessary?
• Your motives – why do I want this change to happen?
• Who the best person will be to help you.
• Opportunities to share your vision.

Establish your own credibility

• Good work ethic.
• Build trust – openness, transparency.
• Never undermine the leadership’s decisions.

Align Your Ministry with the Church
Identify Life Change in Kids 
Show the Impact on Your Volunteers
Five Ways to Influence Those Above You

1. Be relational
2. Be visionary
3. Be clear, concise, and consistent
4. Be an example
5. Be patient!

Out of the mouth of babes

We've been doing the Exodus with our 3-7 year olds at Emmanuel Church since the beginning of the year, using the excellent Click material.

Little Hugh (aged 4) had just returned from a brief holiday in Egypt with his parents. After the story he looks at me all serious, and says:

"I've just been to Sharm el Sheikh, and I didn't see any slaves there..."

Priceless! But another reminder for those out there who work teaching children that smaller ones need very concrete ideas, and really don't get things like history...

Guidelines for children's spots

If your church does "kids' spots" during a morning meeting, here are some guidelines that have been produced by Andy Byfield at my church (Emmanuel Wimbledon) that may keep them on the right track.How to do a Children’s Spot at the 11am Service

The spots at the 11am are a key way to teach gospel truths simply and clearly to both children and adults. They also serve to make the service more appealing to families and to show that we take the children in our church family seriously.

1. BE SHORT: You have just 3 minutes, so there is only time for one point with one illustration and a one sentence prayer. It is very easy to overrun. Our usual format is to show us the Bible verse, then tell us your one point in a sentence then move on to the illustration. Finish by re-reading the Bible verse then close with a prayer.
2. BE BIBLICAL: In the attempt to simplify, watch out that you don't become misleading or inaccurate. Please teach the verse, not your own ideas.
3. BE SIMPLE: Young children only understand very basic vocabulary and short sentences. Concrete illustrations are better than abstract ones.
4. BE DOCTRINAL: We want to teach the children truth rather than just our illustrations. Please also try to illustrate positively if the verse is positive. For instance ‘Blessed are those who mourn’ – don’t tell us about wrong things to cry about (negative illustration) but what kind of tears are "good tears" (positive illustration).
5. BE SAFE:  Only give out simple chocolates with no nuts. Wrapped ones are cleaner and give parents of children with allergies time to intervene. 
6. BE VISUAL: Toddlers may not even notice you are speaking to them unless you are doing something or holding up an object or a picture (A3 please or bigger). Do use PowerPoint if you like but point to it for the kids.
7. BE IN CONTROL: Only a very unambiguous and easy question will get the answer you are expecting. You may get answers to rhetorical questions too!
8. BE HEARD: Go very slowly and as loud as you can to be heard over the racket children make, especially as you begin. You'll need to rehearse it. Perhaps ask a friend to listen to it and comment.
9. BE SEEN: Please stand on the platform at all times and not on the floor. Speak to the children rather than the adults or they will switch off. The adults will listen anyway...
10. BE KIND: Please smile a lot. Ask any volunteers their name and thank them. Help them up and down steps. It is easy to make toddlers cry so please avoid sudden movements. Loud noises are also scary and if you act mean or cross they can't tell you are pretending. Remember their parents are watching and may not be Christians - we want them to be assured that we love the children and don’t simply see them as teaching aids for our spots!

To this we might also add - be prayerful that God's Spirit would take your clear points to the hearts of both adults and children.

Thanks Andy

It's One to One week on the GBC blog

Hi everyone,

we all know that one-to-one personal work and Bible study is one of the most effective forms of Christian work. This week on The Good Book Company Blog it is ONE TO ONE WEEK - a week where we will publish a whole string of articles, video interviews and testimonies about the  principles and power of one to one ministry. Watch out for special features on teenage one-to-oneing, and interviews with students.
The intro is here.

THE TALKS ARE NOW ONLINE

Hi everyone,

just to say, the talks from the conference are now all online at The Good Book Company website here, or on this website here.

How not to do youthwork

Showed this clip at last year's conference. It's a classic. Useful to show your team. Introduce it like this:

• This is a video about a youth worker we want to hire.

•  Then ask - who would you hire?

TEACH THEM CHRIST IN THE BIBLE

Found this remarkable video on YouTube. After you've got over wondering how he managed to memorize it, and asked your questions about how "real" this is for him personally, then just use it to focus what we were doing on the Residential.
Don't just teach your children and young people the Bible. Teach them that our wonderful Lord Jesus is the subject of every part of the Bible.

Comments below

GROWING GODLY GIRLS

Here are the bullet points from Sarah Bradley's Most excellent seminar at the BCY residential this year.

Watch out for a new book for girls aged 11-14 that Sarah is writing with The Good Book Company later this year!

There are lots of things that can make it difficult for girls to live godly lives and we have a responsibility to teach the girls in our care. The truth that leads to godliness is found in God’s word. (Titus 1:1-2)

In amongst all the lies that they hear from films, TV, magazines, the internet, friends etc. we must teach them the truth - the truth of the gospel is crucial.

God created men and women: Equal but different.
We must teach our girls to be girls, and teach our boys to be boys. We need to recognise our equality, but also the brilliant God-given differences that we have. 

Three big things that affect girls, and challenge their godly living are

Image, Relationships and Success.

Image:
1 Samuel 16:7; Mark 7:20-23; 1 Peter 3:3-6; Colossians 3:12

The lie: Outward appearance is most important

The truth: God looks at the heart- that needs to be right with him.

Looks will fade, clothes will date or spoil, hair goes grey, skin goes wrinkly… but our relationship with God gets better and better the more that we get to know him. 

Proverbs 31:3 Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.

Relationships:

Romans 8:28; Ephesians 5:1-5.

The lie: If you’re not in a relationship you’re not worth anything, there’s something wrong with you

The truth: Our worth is found in Jesus Christ; we can trust God for the good things in his timing

We want girl to see boys, not just as a potential boyfriend, but as ‘brothers in Christ’ (1 Timothy 5:1-2).  To encourage them to enjoy friendships with boys and girls, not to rush into relationships, and to make sure all their relationships are God centred not self-centred. 

Success
2 Timothy 1:5; Proverbs 31:10-31; Colossians 3:23.

The lie: Girls can and should have it all

The truth: We are created equal but different; we can rejoice in being the women God created us to be

Being a success is living for God in everything, working for him and not the approval of others. Working hard is important, using the gifts and skills that God has given us are important but we shouldn’t teach our girls that a career is the most important thing; they need to know that being a wife and a mother are essential and crucial roles.

Working with girls is a privilege and a joy

If we want to them to grow up to know and love Jesus, and to be godly women, we need to

• Pray for them 
• Teach them  
• Support them 
• Model godly living to them

GETTING THE ADMIN RIGHT

This is the second half of the seminar on Time management and Admin. Administration is utterly vital to Christian ministry. Done well, it honours Christ and advances the work of the Gospel. Done badly, and the opposite things happen. Our advice to anyone new in ministry (or old in it for that matter) is to urgently desire this spiritual gift (1 Corinthians 12:28). Jackie Moralee led this brilliantly

Two good reasons to work at admin:

• God's a planner - he brings order out of chaos and we reflect him when we impose order on the areas for which we are responsible (Proverbs 21:5)
• Jesus set us an example - John 13 - how we do our ministry impacts on those around us - we need a servant-hearted attitude in all areas

Good admin enhances ministry, bad admin gets in the way of ministry.

Practicalities

• Paperwork: make a home for everything, set up a system and use it (invest in storage)
• Computer: file strategically and regularly/designate specific times for checking email/mind your language
• Communication: clear, detailed, appropriate, gracious
• Meetings: organise well in advance, keep to time, clear action points, email summary after
• Events: thorough planning, delegation and reviewing
• Admin as encouragement: handwritten cards

TIME TO MANAGE YOUR TIME

Main points about time management from the seminar at the conference from Carl Laferton. And just to note - it over-ran! Will post the admin part of this separately.

Know why you’re here

Mark 1 v 38-45 – Jesus was being asked to heal people. But more important to him was to pray alone, and to preach to others. So he didn’t heal that day. It’s not that he never healed, but he knew that his priorities were his own relationship with his Father, and to preach throughout Galilee. So that’s where the bulk of his time went.

It's the same for us: it’s good to have a specific statement about why you’re in your ministry. It needs to be narrower that “I’m here to tell people about Jesus.”

This helps us to know whether to concentrate on our own Bible talks and studies, or helping others with theirs; on new ministries or maintaining existing ministry; on those on the periphery or those who are keenest; on taking evangelistic opportunities or training others in evangelism.

Know who you are
Psalm 127 v 1-2 – God is the one who builds, and he builds as his people labour. We mustn’t think that it all depends on us (which causes self-reliance, stress and overwork) or that God will “just do it” (which causes laziness and complacency).

If we remember who we are and what our part is (to labour) and who God is and what His part is (to build), we’ll be able to sleep (v 2) rather than lie awake worrying!

A useful summary of what we’re about is: “I am here to use the energy God gives me, with the gifts God has given me, in the time God has given me — and then look to him to do his work.”

Know your character

How we order our days, what we need to work on in terms of managing our time, will depend to some extent on who we are:

• Perfectionist, or last minute blagger?
• Extrovert, or introvert?
• Fixated (have to finish job before doing anything else) v flighty (constantly chopping and changing)

All of these characteristics have aspects that will help your ministry and the ministry of those around you; but they all have aspects that can hinder, too. It’s worth thinking through how your character is a great help and a potential hindrance.

Some tips

• Split your day into three parts – morning, afternoon, evening. Aim to work two, rest one.
• Split day into hours – plan what you’ll do in each hour (good for perfectionists – only give a job the time you allocated it. Good for job-avoiders – stops you putting things off)
• Daily to-do list. Write down and prioritise. And write down a not-to-do list, so you don’t panic about whether you need to do more!
• Don’t carry your diary – gives you chance to pray about things, and say “no” if you need to.
• Learn to say “no”. Remember to ask why you’re here, and know who you are!

A note on the door

Got this email from Dean who was on the conference. Thought I'd share it for your thoughts and prayers.

Good evening my dear fellow labourers in the gospel,

I’m writing to you mostly to ask you to pray, we all heard Phil Moon talk about the ‘note stuck to his door’ (but how many of us really expected to actually get one ourselves!)

Well mine came in the form of finding out that a parent of one of the kids from our 7’s-11’s group has been diagnosed with terminal cancer and has been given a couple of years (all going well) to live.

She is a mother of 4 (ages 21, 17, 9, 4) and dad proposed to her last Sunday morning (she’s said she’s been waiting 20 odd years!)

Please pray that she would put her faith in the ‘ Lamb, looking as if it had been slain, standing in the centre of the throne,’ and that we would have opportunities to support her and her family through this time.

Pray for a miracle of grace please – that this shocking reminder of the fragility of life would be Gods shout to the whole family and the whole family would come through the cross to the throne.

With love and tears

Dean Dryden

The gospel for gamers

Alan Witchall pointed me towards this video, and said he had used it to great effect with teenage boys who were into gaming in a big way. You can download a high res version for free from the website link below.

This is downloadable in high res from a website called www.max7.org which is trying to distribute free bible-based resources throughout the world. Quality varies, but there's a load of good stuff for free here.

What Vicky thought

Cracking quote from Phil Moon's final morning session on Revelation 5. Queen Victoria wrote this about Jesus:

"I cannot wait for Him to come, so that I can cast my crown before Him"


Would love to find the reference for this if anyone knows it!

More youthwork lightbulb jokes

Mark Walley again - creative juices clearly flowing into the small hours with every conceivable Youthwork/lightbulb joke imaginable here.

My favourite (OK - the only one that made me LOL):


Q) How many youth leaders does it take to change a lightbulb?
A) You know, sometimes change is hard, but the person who had to deal with change the most was Jesus, when he came down to earth in human form. And Jesus wants you to do your quiet time and stop smoking. I mean trust and obey him.

Models of youth ministry

Mark Walley has posted his notes on Mel Lacey's seminar at the Bible Centered Youth Ministry Conference here.

This is Mel Lacy, not Mark Walley

Revelation 4: what's the point?

Phil Moon's points from his morning talk on Heaven:

1. Heaven is a place with a throne - which is occupied! God is in control.
2. Heaven is a place for Christians - the 24 elders are the 12 tribes of Israel (OT) and the 12 apostles of the new, symbolising all God's people for all eternity. We will be there. It is our destiny
3. Heaven is a place for God's creation - redeemed, recreated, made perfect. Our world is astonishing wonderful now - it's not half what it is going to be!
4. Heaven is a place of worship. Not just singing (although there is singing). Worship is largely spoken - we are saying to God and each other how great He is.

Slightly strange picture of the scene in Revelation 4. Do you think we're meant to draw this?

How do we read Revelation

From this morning's talk on Revelation 4 by Phil Moon:





Revelation is a bit like looking at the big map boards that were used in the second world war. The models on the table might represent ships, friendly fighters, or hostile bombers. But what does the scene represent? Partly the past - what has happened. Partly the present - what is happening now. And sometimes the future, as the controllers make decisions about where to move their forces.

Found in the desk of a murdered pastor

I am part of the fellowship of the unashamed. I have the Holy Spirit power.

The die has been cast. I have stepped over the line. The decision has been made - I'm a disciple of His. I won't look back, let up, slow down, back away or be still.

My past is redeemed, my present makes sense, my future is secure. I'm finished and done with low-living, sight-walking, colourless dreams, tamed visions, worldly talking, cheap giving and dwarfed goals.

I no longer need pre-eminence, prosperity, position, promotions, plaudits or popularity. I don't have to be right, to be first, to be recognized, to be praised, to be regarded, or to be rewarded. I now live by faith, lean on his presence, walk by patience, am uplifted by prayer, and I labour with power.

My life is set, my goal is heaven, my road is narrow, my way is rough, my companions are few, my guide is reliable, my mission is clear.

I cannot be bought, compromised, detoured, lured away, turned back, deluded or delayed. I will not flinch in the face of sacrifice, hesitate in the presence of the enemy, or wander in the maze of mediocrity. I won't give up, shut up, let up, until I have stayed up, stored up, paid up, preached up for the cause of Christ.

I am a disciple of Jesus.

I must go till he comes, give till I drop, preach till all know, and work till he stops me. And when He comes for His own, He will have no problem recognizing me.

My banner will be clear.

This statement was found in the desk drawer of a young Zimbabwean pastor who had been brutally executed. Phil Moon used it as an illustration in his talk on Revelation 4 this morning.

The inescapable equation

Trevor Archer in tonight's session talked about the inescapable equation of Christian Ministry.

So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you. 

2 Corinthians 4 v 12

As we give ourselves in sacrificial service, then God brings life to others.

It seems that this is why Christian Ministry is so hard, wearing and draining. We are giving our very lives in His service. But it is only as we do this that God's work will progress in the lives of others.

Trevor's talk from 1 Thessalonians 2 focussed on the remarkable image that Paul uses to describe the method of his ministry, where he compares it to a mother giving herself to her children. These are the characteristics of a mother, and of those in Christian ministry:

• Gentle (v7) 
• Loving (v7-8) 
• Self Giving (v8) 
• Hard Working  (v9) 
• A Blessing not a Burden (v9) 

What kind of book is revelation?

Reflecting on Phil Moon's Bible reading this morning:

Lots of us are scared by the book of Revelation - it's complex, confusing, and uses pungent powerful imagery to make big scary statements. But the answer is (of course, you dimbo) in the text. revelation 1 tells us it's a whole mixture of things:

1. A revelation (v 1): a description of the world as it really is now.
2. A prophesy (v 3): A light from the future to illuminate our path for today
3. A letter (v 4): written to specific churches (seven of them in chapters 2 and 3) to apply specific things, but the rest of the book is to teach all churches what they need to know.

People have mistaken it for:

• A timetable - to look up when the train will arrive (or when Jesus will return)
• A Novel - something made up and fictional to entertain or frighten us
• A Textbook of dry academic facts to learn head knowledge from.

It's none of these things - it's a picture book, with lots of moving images which all focus on the Lordship of Jesus, over the church, over everything, over today, over me. It's a picture book about who Jesus is now, and how we should live and hope and endure as a result.

Denominational light bulb jokes

From Phil's talk on Revelation 1.

How many Calvinists does it take to change a light bulb?
Calvinists do not change light bulbs. They simply read out the instructions and pray the light bulb will decide to change itself.

How many Pentecostals does it take to change a light bulb?
Ten. One to change the bulb and nine to pray against the spirit of darkness.

How many fundamentalists or independent Baptists does it take to change a light bulb?
Only one because any more would be compromise and ecumenical standards of light would slip.

How many Anglicans does it take to change a light bulb?
At least ten, as they need to hold a debate on whether or not the light bulb exists. Even if they can agree upon the existence of the light bulb, they still may not change it to keep from alienating those who might use other forms of light.

How many Catholics does it take to change a light bulb?
None. They always use candles.

How many Baptists does it take to change a light bulb?
CHANGE???????

How many Amish does it take to change a light bulb?
What's a light bulb?

How many Methodists does it take to change a light bulb?
We choose not to make a statement either in favor of or against the need for a light bulb. However, if in your own journey, you have found that a light bulb works for you, that is fine. You are invited to write a poem or compose a modern dance about your personal relationship to your light bulb and present it next month at our annual light bulb Sunday service, in which we will explore a number of light bulb traditions, including incandescent, fluorescent, three-way, long-lived, and tinted; all of which are equally valid paths to luminescence through Jesus Christ.

And here's the big point...

How many youth pastors does it take to change a light bulb?
We don't know - none of them have ever been around long enough for one of them to blow.


More of these tired sad jokes can be found here

Phil Moon on Revelation 1

Here's a video of the speech that Phil mentioned in his talk on Revelation 1 this morning. Awesome!

A sinner who found grace

In his first evening talk, Trevor Archer mentioned the dark side of John Newton's conversion story.

After he became a Christian, Newton returned to what he knew best - the slave trade, and worked on slave ships for 3 years. During this time, he records that for the space of a month, he went below decks every night to to rape one of the slave women being held captive on the ship. This was a man who was a professing Christian!

Trevor pointed out that Newton's amazement at grace sprang from his realisation that he had so wounded the love of God in how he lived, both before and after he became a Christian. Our Christian lives are far from neat. I know that my experience has been very up and down as a believer, and that I have betrayed my Lord many times in a deliberate and wilful way since I was "converted".

Although he was converted, Newton also needed to be humbled before God. This is often a separate experience in our lives. Praying that the Lord would use this conference to humble me again, and also to show many others here how we need to humble ourselves before God.

A shocking statistic

Trevor Archer is leading our evening ministry, and encouraging us from 1 Thessalonians 2 about the motives, method and message of our ministry.

He started by quoting from Steve Farrar's book Finishing Strong, which makes the shocking suggestion that 9 out of 10 people who start in ministry will end up crashing out, through moral failure, liberal theology, doubt or discouragement. I can believe it's true.

Farrar's book is quoting the US experience of a previous generation, and while there are many examples of this happening in my own experience (Trevor quoted three horrendous cases just from this last year), the figure seems to high. So are we doing something better?

Maybe it's that we are better at working in teams, or in taking accountability seriously. Or maybe we are just better at spotting things earlier or helping our brothers and sisters in ministry to be more real about things. But there is a job of work to do at this conference to help those here to deal with things that are lurking unresolved in their lives. And to paint a realistic picture of the realities of ministry, so that the chances of disappointment are lower. Feel free to comment on what we can do together that will reduce the chances of this awful fallout in ministry

The Gospel is God's truth

Trevor Pearce spoke at the first session at the conference. The opening address is usually a talk to just set the basics of what we do here - encourage youth and children's work where the Bible is heard clearly.

Trev spoke from Romans 1, and highlighted the fact that the children and young people we are seeking to influence live in a very hostile environment for the gospel. Their world is happy for them to have their christian faith in a bubble, but not for them to bring their beliefs out of their 'privacy bubble' into the real world. If they do, the will be persecuted for it.

But what gives us confidence is that the Gospel message is a message from God, not a message from men. It is true historically. And therefore we are obligated to others to share the truth with them (1 v 15).

A great talk that set us off in the right direction. Thanks Trev.

The calm before the storm

It's always a strange time, just before a conference begins. We're rattling round in a great big building. There is an AWFUL STENCH outside - because they are clearing out the sewers, and the few early people who have already arrived are just hanging about, waiting for the rooms to become available, or for other stuff to happen.

The calm before the storm

The office is set up. I'm getting the powerpoints together for the first session (that's Keynote really, but I have to say that to be properly PC), and praying like mad that God would do all the things we are hoping  for this conference to achieve:

• Encourage people in ministry who are struggling
• Train people to think more clearly about how to do Bible-centred youth and childrens' work
• Help people who have personal difficulties of any sort
• Feed hungry people with God's word
• Nurture people both young and old for gospel ministry that will last a lifetime.

Check back or more updates as they happen.

Tim

Stardate: 2:14 24 1 2011

Welcome to the blog

Hi everyone,



just to let you know that I will be using this blog to record stuff that happens, stories I hear and things of note from the conference.

Call in at the office and find me to add something more, or email me: tim.thornborough@thegoodbook.co.uk with your blog pieces

Have a great conference

Tim