Crucible – Creating church on the margins – 10th/11th July 2010.
Posted: 19 March, 01:10 by Jon Dorsett
Crucible is a training programme for Christians with courage and imagination, who suspect:
•We live in a mission context and need to think like missionaries.
•We need to think creatively about church in diverse and changing cultures.
•We serve the God who constantly does new things on the margins.
-on the margins of society among the poor and disenfranchised
-at the margins of culture, where creative thinking explores new possibilities
-within the margins of the familiar, those spaces all around us neglected or ignored but full of potential
Crucible runs three weekends over the course of a year, each exploring different aspects of mission and church. The next weekend will take place in Birmingham on the 10th/11th July 2010 and will be focused on the two themes of ‘Jesus Unplugged: imagining how we can re-tell the story of Jesus today in ways that connect with contemporary cultures’, and ‘Creating New Churches: offering resources for pioneering new churches – and new kinds of churches – in emerging cultures, and renewing existing churches’.
Full details of the Crucible programme, location, times etc. can be found on at www.urbanexpression.org.uk/crucible
Ekklesia – www.ekklesia.co.uk Reconciliation - Self, Other... the World? – 17th April 2010.