Amazing Grace

Went to see a pre-release showing of the 'Amazing Grace' tonight. Excellent. Some of it was filmed in Gloucester docks next to the cinema, so it was a special showing for the city 'big wigs' (and a few peasants too!). Go see it if you get the chance.

Get Out More

This last week we've added a few more bloggers to OSCAR's blogging section. That's 18 so far. Almost every category has at least someone in it. The real challenge is to increase this further so that it has a good spectrum of those involved in mission. If you are, or know of, anyone involved in any aspect of world mission and have a blog ... why not include it in this section? Maybe there are others you could persuade to start a blog as being featured on OSCAR means that it will be read (maybe?) ... or at least noticed! Go on ... get out more (virtually, anyway).

Networking

A large part of my work is about networking. Today was Home Church Leaders Day at Redcliffe College and about 30 pastors of students visited for the day. I took a session with them this afternoon on 'Serving as Senders' to help them enthuse and resource their churches into mission involvement. I hope it was helpful, but I must say it was a delight to meet them all. If you think that mission isn't on the agenda of most of our churches in the UK, you only need to meet a group of folks like this and you realise that it's very much alive and well in certain places. I was particularly impressed by one church who were getting involved with supporting a student even though they had no prior involvement with them before the mission organisation linked them up. Such commitment to mission and partnership is great to see.
Tomorrow I'm attending a meeting of the mission representatives in the South West region of the UK. Another chance for networking with a different mission group. Interestingly, they're discussing how to enthuse churches about mission. Maybe these two groups should meet sometime??