Ministry to people in their place of work has a long history in the church. Since the Second World War clergy and lay people from different denominations have visited people in their place of work exercising a pastoral and prophetic ministry. Chaplains have pursued issues raised within the workplace and sought to help the Church understand the realities within the world of work.
Workplace chaplains work in a variety of ways linking faith, worship and daily life, by regularly visiting people in their workplace. There is often an opportunity to encourage people to deepen their understanding of the relationship between the Christian faith and the economic order. In the contemporary world the church is concerned not just with individuals but with issues that shape our daily lives.
There are already lay and ordained chaplains from different denominations in workplaces all over Cornwall.
If you would like to explore the possibility of joining them (especially if you are in the Bodmin area) please contact Jill Edwards email jill.edwards@truro.anglican.org
To find out more come along to next Ministry in the Workplace Event on September 7th at RAF St Mawgan:
Changing patterns of work and support in armed conflict past and present at RAF St Mawgan
A workplace chaplaincy day with the military chaplains based around RAF St Mawgan. We will be looking at the changing patterns of support in conflicts past and present. Guests are welcome to this study day. For more information contact Jill Edwards jill.edwards@truro.anglican.org or Rosey Sanders Rosey.sanders@truro.anglican.org Tel 01872 274351
During the academic year 2010/11 South West Youth Ministries (SWYM) are hosting six professional development training days that are open to all. If you are a full-timer or volunteer these days are for you… to encourage you in the work that you are doing and to share ideas.
Just £25 per day or £100 for all 6 days!
Sept 6thBRAD HAWKES: Peer-led groups – releasing young people to lead
Brad Hawkes is National Leader of New Generation UK, the British branch of an international network with more than 20000 members in 20 nations, all working for a more positive school environment through peer-led Christian groups praying and reaching out schools and colleges.
Nov 1stGAVIN CALVER: Hope for a new generation Gavin Calver is the National Director of Youth for Christ, a charity that works with over 300,000 young people a month in places such as schools, prisons and churches. A theology graduate, ordained evangelist and regular public speaker, his third book Lazy, Anti- social & Selfish?
Jan 10thSTEVE CLIFFORD: Unity – is it worth it Steve Clifford became General Director of Evangelical Alliance in April 2009. Steve’s previous roles have included chairing Hope 08 and Soul Survivor, Soul in the City London and March for Jesus International. He has also been involved in church planting and running leadership and discipleship teams within the Pioneer network.
Feb 28thPATRICK REGAN: Reaching the unchurched Patrick Regan is the founder and director of XLP, a charity that for the past 14 years has been working with young people and families in some of the most diverse and challenging settings of inner city London. Patrick is passionate about seeing places of trouble become places of hope.
May 9thMARTIN SAUNDERS: Storytelling Martin Saunders is the Editor of volunteer youth leader at St Mary’s Reigate, and is an author and screenwriter and the culture columnist for Youthwork magazine. He also serves as a Christianity magazine.
June 27thJENNY BAKER: Mentoring – to transform lives
Jenny Baker is a writer and trainer with a background in youth work and teaching. She is a co-founder for the Sophia Network for women in youth work, vice chair of Greenbelt and a member of Grace, an alternative worship community in London.
Email admin@swym.org.uk with the dates you want to book and your name, address and telephone number and send a cheque payable to SWYM to 140 Pinhoe Rd, Exeter EX4 7HJ
If you have any questions please contact SWYM on Tel: 01392 273560
PROGRAMME
10:30 Worship with SWYM team
12:30 Session 1
13:30 Lunch
14:30 Session 2
15:40 Session 3
16:50 Session 4
18:00 Dinner
19:30 Evening Celebration
“I pray that your hearts will be flooded with light.” Ephesians 1:8
Join millions of Christians in the largest international prayer focus on the Muslim world.
“We’ve been praying since 1993. Incredible change is happening in the Muslim world. We believe you have a big part in that change…” – Andy, UK
Of the 1.5 billion Muslims worldwide, probably only one third know any Christians at all. But 30 days of prayer can change a life…
Packed with information, prayer points and testimonies, this excellent guide will help you pray for Muslims, and Christians living in the Muslim world, during Ramadan. Organise a special prayer event in your church or small group, or use it on your own during Ramadan.
Order your copy now by calling Open Doors on 01993 885400. Price £2 (€3).
Want more training and equipping to further your ministry?
Do you need to know that you are loved?
Come,join us for a time of teaching, ministry, and resting in the Father’s presence…………..
“I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.” John 14:20
Soaking School
Have your heart healed up and be filled with God’s love so that you can give it away!
Teaching topics include:
Father Heart of God
Know the unconditional and without measure love of your Father God
Intimacy with God
Cultivate intimacy with the Father through soaking – taking time to sit at Jesus’ feet
Sonship
Receive fullness of the revelation that you are a son or daughter of Father God, and walk in your inheritance
The Power of the Cross
Understand the power of Jesus’ death and resurrection
Forgiveness
Receive the freedom that comes as you learn the power of forgiveness
And more…….
What is Soaking?
Soaking is to Immerse,
Saturate yourself,
In the presence of the Lord God Almighty.
It is to soak yourself SO much in God that you take on His fragrance, His Character.
Hear His thoughts;
Learn to recognise His voice;
Hear Him speak GOOD over you
Every day of your life………
Who is Catch the Fire?
CTF was founded from Toronto Airport Christian Fellowship by John and Carol Arnott, and the same vision was then pioneered in the UK in 2005 through Nicola Tancock.
Our Vision:
Is to walk in God’s love and give it away until the whole earth is filled with the glory of the Lord!
How We Walk This Vision Out:
By being immersed in the love, grace and presence of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit; experiencing freedom through the healing of life’s hurts and pursuing intimacy with God through worship, prayer, soaking in His presence and loving His Word.
We:
Empower all to carry the good news of the Kingdom to their nation and to the world in the power of the Spirit and with Fire! Build lasting relationships that change the world.
Have fun! (Philippians 4:4)
Our aim is to raise up ordinary people to take their God-given gift to the nations and see signs, wonders, and miracles in the physical body as well as seeing people’s hearts healed.
“Soaking is intimate time spent with Jesus! It is you and I enjoying just being with Him. It’s about returning to our first love.
We’re praising God for this new opportunity to equip you to effectively bring His Kingdom into your home, your church, and your Soaking Prayer Centre.”
John and Carol Arnott, Founding Pastors, Catch the Fire Ministries
Cost:
£30 per person £45 per married couple £29.99 Soaking kit (starter kit for those wishing to start a soaking centre)
Session Times
10am, 2pm and 7pm Friday & Saturday
To Register
Please book to reserve your place.
Email: Ltancock@catchthefire.com
Tel: (UK) 01271 345468
Heavy monsoon rains have triggered the floods which have so far killed at least 1,600 people, displaced a further 2 million and affected around 14 million overall. The UN has suggested the flooding has now affected more people than the tsunami in 2004, the earthquake in Pakistan in 2005 and the earthquake in Haiti earlier this year combined. The extraordinary deluge is likely to continue for the next few days, spreading fear that many more people will have their lives devastated by the country’s worst floods since 1929.
The seasonal monsoon rains have caused rivers to burst their banks triggering floods in the north of the country. As the monsoon has continued floodwaters have developed, and have surged south, wreaking over 600 miles of destruction from the northern provinces of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab, through to the southern province of Sindh, where evacuations are currently under way.
With the true extent of the damage only now becoming clear, a massive relief effort is under way. Entire villages, roads, bridges and railway tracks have been washed away or totally destroyed, leaving many communities completely cut-off without food or clean water. Many have been left further isolated by the devastating landslides that have occurred as a result of the floods, trapping thousands of people in submerged areas.
International agencies have rushed to supply aid, and the Pakistani army is coordinating the relief efforts with all available troops deployed to deal with the flooding. But the terrible weather conditions are hampering the distribution of aid; even helicopters have been unable to access the Swat valley in the north of the country. In many cases aid workers are improvising by travelling on foot, or by donkey, as water and food shortages worsen each day. Rescue teams are also battling the weather to distribute medicine in order to avoid a cholera epidemic and the spread of other waterborne diseases. There have already been several reported outbreaks, and the slowly receding waters offer a perfect breeding ground for these potentially fatal diseases.
The Disasters Emergency Committee has opened the ‘DEC Pakistan Floods Appeal.’ If you would like to support the appeal, donate now online or call 0370 60 60 900. Watch the Pakistan Floods Appeal below.
The Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) was formed in 1963 as an umbrella organisation for the following member agencies:
ActionAid
British Red Cross
CAFOD
Care International UK
Christian Aid
Concern Worldwide
Help the Aged
Islamic Relief
Merlin
Oxfam
Save the Children
Tearfund
World Vision
At times of overseas emergency, the DEC co-ordinates UK’s aid, funding and broadcasting to ensure that funds raised go to those agencies best placed to deliver effective and timely relief to people most in need. The DEC agencies work together, avoiding duplication.
All money raised will help fund the life saving work in Pakistan and support the efforts of the leading UK aid agencies.
Ever wondered what it would be like to have a cup of coffee with God?
This weekend will challenge, reignite and restore your intimacy with your heavenly Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit.
This seminar will help you with:
Increasing your hunger for reading and applying God’s word.
Establishing some simple keys to help you see and hear better.
Identify your birthright and inheritance so you can run with your destiny!
Make you honest and joyful.
Tel: 07771 753715 www.churchontherock.org.uk
Prophetic Basics
Prophetic Manners
OT Prophecy vs NT Prophecy
Ezekiel 37 – 2nd or 3rd Heaven Revelation?!
Weighing Words
Extreme Miracles
Opening the Seer Realm
New Mystics and much more.
The flyer is available as a Word document by emailing enquiries@kingdomvision.co.uk with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject line.
If you know someone who would like the monthly flyer posted to them, please provide their name and address. You can also write to us with your details at Kingdom Vision, 16 Andrew Place, Truro, Cornwall. TR1 3HZ.
Theme: Migration 2010, keying into the Migration 2010 initiative of the Conference of European Churches and the Churches’ Commission for Migrants in Europe.
Observe a time for creation, between 1 September and 4 October, for the protection of God’s creation and the promotion of sustainable lifestyles. Churches Together in Britain and Ireland has put together a programme of resources to encourage and assist churches to observe a Time for Creation in 2010.
Our theme this year is Creation Flourishing – A time for Celebration and Care, linking into the United Nations International Year of Biodiversity.
The resources are undergirded by the hope we share as Christians, based ultimately in God’s good plans for his creation, the cosmic scope of Christ’s saving work, and the Spirit’s renewing power at work within and through human beings. The CTBI Creation Time material is now available at: www.ctbi.org.uk/creationtime
‘The Spirit of God is moving mightily at a remote place in North Pembrokshire and it bears many of the marks of revival. Lives are being turned upside down as people receive remarkable spontaneous healing whilst others are leaving the dead formalism of religion behind to encounter the God of the Bible. Many are hearing God’s voice for the first time. Teams are going out to Nations, carrying the fire of God. Blessing and transformation are taking place around the us. During the age of the Celtic Saintsthere was a strong link between Pembrokshire and Cornwall, and we long to see a renewed spiritual connection between us for the sake of the Kingdom.
May revival flow and Jesus be glorified for ever’
Roy Godwin author of The Grace Outpouring
Back in 2007 I went body boarding down at St Agnes. I knew the waves were going to be really big as, the night before, the weather man said a hurricane off Florida was going to cause huge swells on the north coast. Confident in my fitness and ability, and with a positive mental attitude, I found myself looking out to sea at huge waves far bigger than the three footers I normally boarded on. I launched myself into the sea and swam out back. I quickly picked up a seven or eight foot wave and had the biggest and best ride ever!
Having ridden one wave I swam out for another. This time a monster wave reared up before me and I knew I would have to dive underneath as I was not ready to ride that wave. The wave caught me before I dived. Hit full on by the roller I was forced down on to the seabed and felt a great weight pinning me down. It was like an age before I felt the pressure release and I let go of my body board and followed it to the surface. As I broke the surface I gulped a quick breath and turned in time to see the next breaker crashing down on me. This one spun me round and round and down – I thought I was in a giant washing machine. The roar was deafening; then the silence as the wave passed over me. My lungs were bursting this time as I hadn’t taken in much breath before the second wave. Somehow I found myself back on the surface, scared rigid and desperate to get back to the beach. I must admit that up until this point I had not prayed, but I did now – not ‘Thank thee Lord for saving me from the perils of the deep’ but ‘blow that for a game of soldiers, Lord!’ and ‘I am never body boarding again’! Neither, as I struggled back to the beach and flopped around like a middle aged beached whale, did I think, ‘Oh this makes for a good sermon outline!’ No, all I wanted to do was get off the beach, go home and have a nice cup of tea! Little did I know this whole experience was, in a way, prophetic for the perfect storm that was about to tear through my life for the next year.
As the storm clouds of circumstance gathered in the distance, and I foresaw the imminent disaster that was heading my way, I began to call on God for deliverance. God being God did not deliver me from the storm but, by The Holy Spirit, led me into a number of Psalms. For a year the Psalmist’s words were as real as Jesus speaking to me in the flesh. The Psalm which resonates still is Psalm 61 ‘Lead me to the rock that is higher than I’.
Jesus lifted me up to sit hidden with Him. He became the truly safe place to be. Cosseted and protected by Him, safe, high up from the battering of circumstance, sheltered under His wings, I was able to act on His words, to deal with the reasons for the storm, and to hear His word as it came through other believers. As the storm subsided I decided I did not, and do not, want to live away from the Rock. I wish to remain hidden in Christ forever. This is the place were Jesus wants all of us to be; lost in His grace, knowing His love and finding His ways for our lives. He will always be there for us, regardless as to whether we caused our own storm; others caused it; or pure chance.
As a post script – I went body boarding two weeks ago for the first time since 2007. Small waves, lots of life guards, loads of tourists and no monster waves!
Thursday 16th September 9.15 for 9.30am at Tuckingmill Baptist Church, 62 Pendarves Street, Tuckingmill, Camborne, Cornwall TR14 8RF
Phil Arthur will be speaking to those who have a responsibility to share the gospel with others in their churches.
He will speak at two sessions on “The Puritan Family” and “Motives for Evangelism”.
We try to include a time for sharing news from the churches.
The Retreat is due to finish at around 2.00pm. Pasties can be provided if ordered at the beginning of the Retreat.
Phil Arthur has been pastor of Free Grace Baptist Church since 1988. He comes from the North East of England and after studying history at Cambridge he returned to his home area where he worked as a teacher and then a college lecturer before crossing the Pennines to Lancaster.Phil is married to Barbara, a teacher and has three sons.In addition to his ministry at Free Grace Baptist Church, Phil is a regular contributor to the Westminister Conference and is now a member of the conference committee. He was Joint Managing Editor for Grace Publications Trust for ten years and is now Consulting Editor. He was responsible for editing a popular series on Church History called “2,000 Years of Christ’s Power”.Phil has lectured in Church History at London Theological Seminary and served as a guest lecturer at Grace Ministerial Acadamy in Manila.
Phil is the author of a number of devotional commentaries in the Evangelical Press Welwyn series:
THIS IS A FREE EVENT AND ALL BELIEVERS ARE WELCOME
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Ministry to people in their place of work has a long history in the church. Since the Second World War clergy and lay people from different denominations have visited people in their place of work exercising a pastoral and prophetic ministry. Chaplains have pursued issues raised within the workplace and sought to help the Church understand the realities within the world of work.
