templeton to lincoln



Busy last few days. Monday saw me stop off for another meeting with Mike Moynagh in Templeton College, a cool modern building for rocket scientists or something like that! We were reviewing the training research project and talking about some wider issues to do with church planting in our culture. I love our conversations as they stretch my thinking and ability to articulate some of those thoughts.

Next on to the nation of Lincolnshire; yes coming from Somerset it really is a foreign country. Spent time with
Pete & Kath Atkins leaders of Threshold church which meets together every other week then inbetween as several smaller more local gatherings called clusters. The clusters themselves are made up of reproducing home or cell churches. Each has full freedom to outwork church in whatever way is going to most effectively bring the Kingdom to their community.

Pete & Kath (as well as being parents of 5 and a part time GP) are also spearheading a cross-denominational strategy to see churches planted all over their region, entitled 'Humber to the Wash'. Although the vision has been in preparation for several years it is steadily building steam on a number of fronts. It enjoys widespread support from church leaders across the board and the region.

One of the key components is a Mission Shaped Leadership training course which is now in its 4th year and currently has 70 students, ranging from a rural Dean, several Methodist area superintendants, Vicars, free church and new church pastors and lots of cell/small group leaders. A small but growing number of new works have been started by former students and their vision is to have 500 pass through the course, with a healthy percentage of those going on to initiate new churches.

It was remarkable to see so many from such diverse backgrounds learning together. A sign of hope for the future. The 'Humber to the Wash' project is a regional DAWN-type process which could well serve as a learning model for other regions in the future.

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