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Ian Jones

Christians in Practice

By All Christian Learning and Discipleship Projects, Blog, Churches and Community Engagement, Developing Christian Discipleship, Learning for Ministry and Mission, Research & Evaluation

Christians in Practice explores how community activity and Christian learning feed each other.  Based on interviews and surveys with 30 Anglican churches in the Dioceses of Birmingham and Lichfield, the project sought to help congregations Understand better what drives the practical…

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Celebrating Discipleship – WHDG Event Report

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As ‘What Helps Disciples Grow?’ took shape over the last 18 months, Simon Foster kept us posted on project developments and thoughts through his project blog Watching the Flocks. Here, Simon writes some initial reflections on the day, in: Celebrating Discipleship. A write…

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Apparently on this day in 1931, the first edition of the Highway Code was published.  On the same day in 2016, we’ve taken receipt of two new Trust publications! The first delivery was a pile of boxes containing pristine copies of What…

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Faith School Linking in the West Midlands

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‘Did you know, Christian worship has been taking place on this site for well over 1000 years?’ asked Revd Philip Wells, rector of Polesworth Abbey.  Whispers of ‘wow!’ and ‘awesome’ rippled around the group of school children standing in the…

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