GOOD NEWS

YOUTH PROJECT SEES CRIME PLUMMET
A Christian-led education project has won a National Youth Justice award after it slashed youth crime in a London borough by 58.5 per cent year-on-year. The Spark2Life programme received the team award for making an ‘outstanding contribution to tackling youth crime’ at this year’s Criminal Justice System (CJS) awards. Youth worker Dez Brown developed the programme in Wandsworth schools with the backing of police and the local education authority. Linked to school citizenship and PSHE courses, it combined a keynote talk with classroom sessions and a mentoring scheme in 13 schools. Following this success, Mr Brown hopes to take the programme to other boroughs and cities.
Source: Christianity (Feb 08)

Heartland FM

Here is the play list for the next Heartland programme on Tuesday 18 January 2008
On 97.5 FM -Heartland

Title	Singer	Note	Album
My saviour lives	New life worship		experience his presence		2007
Say so	Isreal Houghton		New breed		2007
Special delivery			Acapella		2000
All that i need	CE CEWinans		Purified
Sunny side	Snap and shot		MIC
Everything is going to be alright	Shirley Caesar		I Know the truth		2005
Ascend	Lenny lebanc		All for love
Purpose	Resurrection life church		For you I live		2006
Is to come	Free chapel		Moving forward		2007
Watchman	Paul Wilbur
Work	Jars of Clay		Good monsters
Beautiful people	Jason Upton		Beautiful people
Take my chances	Barlowgirl

Renovare Jan 2008 newsletter

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10 December 2007
Tall Skinny Kiwi says:

Absolutely awful to hear of the shooting at the YWAM base in Denver. 9News says two dead (pictured), one critical, another inured and the 80 other missionaries moved to Golden for the time being. Youth With a Mission is a great mission organization and I have had the priviledge of teaching on many of their training bases, but not Denver. Our prayers are with the families of those involved and the other missionaries. Avarda police are working hard to find the suspect.

Update: Apparently, the gunman at both Colorado shootings, Matthew Murray, was once enrolled in a DTS at YWAM but was let go for "health" reasons. ChristianPost has the skinny and Benediction is looking at it also. Technorati Tags: ywam

New deacon

Time rushes by and one can easily forget the communications that one promised.
But Im back.

Local topically thing this week refers to the appointment of "leaders" in the church.

If you were having a new Deacon on your church what advise would you give him/her?

CCLI

The UK office of Christian Copyright Licence International. Where Churches advise of the songs they have used in worship to allow payments to the writers.
www.ccli.co.uk/

Based in Eastbourne

Heartland FM

My next Tuesday night programme is likely to be on the 11 th of December 2007.
here is the possible list of contributions.

Track Singer/s Album

God in heaven	Delerious		world service	2003
Alien youth	Skillet
we are one	Resurection life church		For you I live	2007
Colourful world	CE CE Winans		Purified	2005
What the world needs	Casting crowns		The altar and the door	2007
Shepherd	Robin Mark		East of the river	2007
Hossanna	Exerience his presence			2007
so come intro	Isreal new breed
so come
No place like home		pax217		2000
Let it rain	Lou Fellinghamf
Shipwreck	Starfield
Be still and Know	SC Chapman		Speechless

How to gather the masses

I thought it interesting that when in America a couple of years ago a Church leader was advocating that the church takes to much energy trying to make the church attractive when in fact if there were obstacles for people to get to church it would be in the long term more fruitful.
The age of attractive church might be over. How do we change the culture if we are touching a church centred image when we should be flavouring the world.

Sometime you need to stand on your head to see a different point of view.

Heartland playlist 2

It is a bit lis tbut here is the plavlist from the last programme.

Mama s Kitchen
Ce Ce Winans her current album - Purified,.
Anybody want to pray?
Ce Ce Winans
How great is our God
Open the eyes of my heart
Coming home Lou Fellingham
Worthy is the lamb Hillsongs
Some where east of the river Robin Mark
Heavens gate Robin Mark
Barlowgirl the
This Generation Starfield
Lord you have been good to me

New beginnings

I have often seen the "new beginnings" statement in organisations including churches. What does that mean? Is it a call to shake off what has reduced the effectiveness of ministry?

Most in church circles acknowledge that traditionalism is dead and will not survive but how does one keep alive that which should be growing and developing.?

How does the streams of living water continue to flow when there is stagnation and dams blocking the flow.

It takes wise council to move matters forward.
Some times rushing can be counter productive sometimes waiting too long means a lost opportunity.

What are the answer keys to these questions?

Renovare newsletter October 2007

The newsletter for October 2007 is available at Renovare.

"Personal" Amber continued