17 Seminars

2PM - 2.45PM (BST) - 1st August

Ministry of the Spirit

Empowering All to Prophesy

Empowering others in the gift is the foundation for seeing the prophetic thrive. In this session, Julian will share how to prophesy and create a culture that empowers the prophetic in your community.

Julian Adams is a director of Frequentsee and leader of The Table Boston church plant. He is an author, spiritual advisor, revelatory teacher, prophet, and leadership consultant in political, business, and creative spheres.
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Wholeness & Inner Healing

Learning to Live in Rest

Lin believes the key to living in rest is listening to the Father’s heartbeat and living in the ‘unforced rhythms of grace’. Yet we can experience ‘rest robbers’, anxious thoughts telling us we are unforgiven/ineligible, our past wounds imprisoning us in a slave/orphan mentality. To rest is to trust in God’s continuing message of love.

Lin Button has been ministering in healing prayer ministry for 40 years. She founded the Healing Prayer School and has led conferences in Europe, USA and beyond. Lin is on the staff team at All Saints Woodford Wells and has written four books.
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Relationships

Marriage Refresh

The lockdown has impacted marriages in all kinds of ways; for some it’s brought positive change, for others, challenges. Mark & Lindsay invite you to take an opportunity to pause and have a deeper conversation about your marriage in this time of transition as you prepare for the next season.

Mark & Lindsay Melluish live in Ealing, West London where he is Senior Leader of the St Paul’s family of churches. Lindsay leads alongside him and works as a Family Therapist. They have five adult children and two grandchildren.
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Love In Action – At Home

God’s Multi-Ethnic Kingdom and Racial Justice

This talk will explore the idea of God’s kingdom being multi-ethnic through John’s prophetic revelations in Revelations 5 and 7. It will suggest practical points for how the church can achieve racial justice in this season.

Israel Oluwole Olofinjana is the new Director of the One People Commission of the Evangelical Alliance. He is an ordained and accredited Baptist minister and is Founding Director of Centre for Missionaries from the Majority World.
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Love In Action – Abroad

What Will We Do with This Rage?

Climate narratives and the experiences of being black are written by many, but we are yet to hear and see a climate account built on themes that matter to Black and Brown people today. These voices want to change the narrative, call out the climate catastrophe, call for repentance, and find meaningful ways to repair and rebuild.

Amanda Khozi Mukwashi is Chief Executive Officer of Christian Aid, leading development and humanitarian interventions in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, and the Caribbean. She has also served with the United Nations Volunteer programme in Germany.
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Love In Action – For The Planet

Climate Crisis: What the Bible says

Ruth is joined by theologians from Africa, Asia, and Latin America to explore what the Bible has to say about the climate crisis and caring for creation. What does scripture teach us about the roots of the crisis and how should we respond?

Ruth Valerio is an environmentalist, theologian and social activist, Director at Tearfund, Canon Theologian at Rochester Cathedral, and author of six books on faith, environment, and justice.

María Alejandra Andrade is an Ecuadorian theologian focused on environmental justice, human mobility, gender and decolonial theologies.

Rei Lemuel Crizaldo is a theologian in the Philippines, has authored several books, one of which has won the ‘Filipino Reader’s Choice’ award, and serves as part of Tearfund’s theology team.

Fwangmun Oscar Danladi is a theologian, youth pastor, and activist in Nigeria. He is part of the ‘Jos Green Centre’ youth led initiative on renewable energy, eco-entrepreneurship, and social issues.
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Workplace

Leading Through Challenges

The past 15 months of working remotely have created new challenges for leadership and Sarah will explore how the parable of the talents in Matthew 25:14-30 speaks to her and how she’s found strength from the Lord at this time.

Sarah McHardie is a Director in a large professional services firm based in London where she leads a team delivering external audits. Outside of work she is involved in her local church, Christchurch Purley and is also a Trustee for New Wine.
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Leadership

Four Ways in which Leaders make a Difference

Effective leadership impacts churches and other organisations positively in a variety of ways. In this seminar we consider how good leaders keep things moving, bring alignment to the contributions of members, provide opportunities for others to grow, and help people make sense of their experiences.

Ian Parkinson works for the Diocese of Sheffield as a leadership coach to church leaders after more than three decades in church leadership and several years in theological education as a leadership specialist. He is the author of Understanding Christian Leadership.
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Planting & Pioneering

Emerging on the front foot

There is so much talk of ‘going back’, but what would it look like to go forward, emerging not on the back foot but on the front one? Fiona will reflect on some of what she and her team have been hearing from God for the next season of pioneering in Crosby. Practical and biblically based principles which will hopefully enable see fruitful advancement of the Kingdom.

Fiona Kirby-Smith and her husband Paul lead Connect Church Crosby, a church plant in Scunthorpe, and Core, a community and social justice initiative. They are passionate about gathering around tables and encountering Jesus in unexpected places.
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Reaching our communities

God Loves the Inner City

In this session, we will explore why God loves the inner city, how it can be revitalised through the Church and Cris will share some stories of this happening.

Cris Rogers and his wife Beki lead All Hallows Bow, a highly missional church in East London. He has a deep passion for discipleship and apprenticeship in the way of Jesus. Cris also hosts a weekly Discipleship Podcast called Making Disciples with Cris Rogers and is the Chair of Spring Harvest.
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Evangelism & Apologetics

Evangelism Amongst the Marginalised

Jesus said he came to bring good news to the poor; this session will look at why it is important, and offer some tools, stories, and suggestions for how we might join in with God’s heart for the least and last.

Lizzy Robinson has a heart for the most broken and vulnerable and leads Saint Philips Chapel Street alongside her husband Gareth. They have three teenage kids.
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Celebrating local church

Kingdom Culture in a Rural Context

This session will focus on how to transition a local church into a Kingdom culture in a rural context, and how to steward the vision, values, culture, and spiritual atmosphere towards an ever- increasing manifestation of the Kingdom of Heaven in the countryside.

James di Castiglione is Rector of the Parish of Chanctonbury, West Sussex where he is responsible for three Church of England churches across three villages, living together as one united, multi-congregational, multi-generational church family.
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Spotlight

What Jesus Knew about The Persuasion Gap

Jesus spoke to the ‘action region’ of his listener’s brains. Call it the brain’s heart, soul, or subconscious throne – it is where action occurs. Those around him (and lots of us today) speak to the ‘conclusion region’ and wonder why people nod, but do not act. Come and re-consider persuasion.

Steve Adams is Director of Public Engagement at All We Can, before which he ran CentreBrain Communications, helping clients assess what they said and how they said it – in persuasiveness terms. He has written several books, including one on the CentreBrain.
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Spotlight

Mindful Spirituality

A mindful spirituality seeks to live the incarnational life modelled for us by Jesus in the power of the Holy Spirit, prophetically reading the signs of the times and responding. This seminar will unpack the theology and practices that enable us to inhabit a mindful spirituality, resisting our culture of fear & anxious self-focus.

Shaun Lambert is a Baptist Minister, psychotherapist, mindfulness researcher & author. He is living on community at Scargill House exploring mindful church and community.
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Spotlight

Woman and Man – as God Made Them

#MeToo, #ChurchToo! Do men really respect women? In a culture where women do not always feel valued or safe, let alone equal, what did God intend when he made male and female? This seminar about woman, for men and women, explores how the Church can teach, model and live radical, Spirit-filled relationships in an uneasy culture.

Michele Guinness is a former Head of Communications in the NHS, journalist, and clergy spouse. She has used insights from her Jewish background in her many bestselling books such as The Contemporary Woman, published this year.
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Sponsored

Befriending and the Church – A Local Response to Loneliness?

Join Linking Lives UK to explore the issue of loneliness within the UK, how it relates to the Church, and how befriending projects can be used to bridge the gap that so often exists between those experiencing loneliness and local churches.

David De Le Haye is Training and Resources Manager at Linking Lives UK, providing resources to equip churches to impact on loneliness outside of their normal reach within communities.

Angela Caley is Partnerships and Support Services Manager for Linking Lives UK, walking alongside and encouraging local churches as they look to address loneliness within their communities.
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Sponsored

Unshakeable Faith

Faith is about the long haul. How do you keep going and develop resilience under pressure? In this seminar we explore the need for endurance, the value of needing each other as the Body of Christ both locally and globally to encourage courage in one another.

Andy Worthingtonis Head of Church Relations at Open Doors and loves telling stories of what God is doing through the persecuted church, to see courage and faith grow in the UK church. Andy and his wife Michelle lead the Breathe venue at United.

Emma Worrall has worked for Open Doors for many years and her discipleship journey has been profoundly shaped by the stories of courageous faith from around the world.
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