Reaching New People: Recent Episodes
Reaching New People
Reaching New People (RNP) is one of St Albans Diocese’s initiatives exploring new ways to reach people who aren’t currently engaged with the Church and looking at how we can make new disciples.
Living Churchyards Webinar
Churchyard maintenance and its relationship to biodiversity Webinars for All Lay and Ordained Leaders.
As part of the St Albans Diocese Mission Department we are hosting a series of webinars around presenting topics relevant for all lay and ordained church leaders.
Discovering New Forms of Missional-Incarnational Life and Ministry from the Historical Missional Movement (Part Two) Webinar
This will be a four-part series of micro-learning opportunities for missional leaders to discover new forms of missional-incarnational life and ministry from the historical missional movement.
Part 3 - Organising for Mission in a digital world that values participation The relationship between the church and mission has always been a complex one — just ask three Christian leaders about the topic and you will get a myriad of different answers. The current emerging paradigm of Christianity is at its core a participatory ‘Missional Church’ that is rooted in partnering with the mission of God that is already happening in its midst.
Part 4 - Redrawing our Maps Reading the book of Acts reminds us how often ‘unwelcome disruption’ comes to the Church and though people pray against it and hope that God would never let terrible things happen- disruptive change results in a deepening and expanding of spiritual and numerical growth for the Church. It is interesting to think about how the new emerging Western church will look in the next ten to twenty years. No doubt, many churches will continue to mourn the loss of membership, vitality, and influence, alongside yearning to reach emerging generations who have no reference point of gathering on a Sunday morning. As the church undertakes this next stage of its historical journey, it cannot hope to make sense of it using old institutional maps. Instead, it is when Christians are willing to accept our confusion instead of fleeing from it, and change the questions we are asking, that we can discover new insights that will give us new maps.
A thirst to learn from Jesus (Week 2)
Two week series: Tuesdays 21 & 28 April 2020
Week 1: A thirst to learn from Jesus - discussion and thoughts around incarnational ministry after the lockdown is lifted.
Week 2: A thirst to learn from Jesus - exploring the Jesus model of Invitation and Challenge in the making of disciples.
A Vision of a Net Zero Carbon Church
Practical steps for moving church buildings towards the net zero goal from General Synod, with Catherine Ross, National Church of England Environment Officer.