The speaker for this years conference “Prepare: Realising our God given Potential” is going to be Rev Jackie Searle. Jackie is a gifted speaker and teacher, She is vicar of St Peter’s Littleover, and is Dean of Women in Derby Diocese. Previously she worked at Trinity Bristol, where she was a tutor and Dean of women, and is a visiting lecture at St John’s Nottingham. she is married and has 2 teenage children.
To book on the conference download a booking form here. To find out more about the conference timetable please go to our conference pages.
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The College of Preachers and Premier Christian Media have teamed up to host the first Young Preacher of the Year competition. The aim is not to promote celebrity preaching, but to encourage the next generation of Christian preachers. They say, ‘Yes, it’s a competition, and there`ll be just one winner; but we hope that there’ll be no losers. We want everyone who enters this event to find that it helps them with their preaching.’
To enter, you need to be between the ages of 18 and 30 on the 18th January 2010, and you need to be endorsed by a church leader. You need to submit an audio recording of you preaching for no more than 20 minutes in an act of worship, with a transcript. The closing date is the 28th May 2010. Short-listed contestants will be asked to submit a further sermon and then seven finalists will be invited to preach live at Methodist Central Hall on a Saturday in November.
Full details are on their website www.youngpreacher.org.uk, wouldn’t it be brilliant if it was won by a woman, so either get yourself nominated or nominate a friend, either way let’s get women noticed for their preaching.
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Refreshing Preaching
“The digital age isn’t killing off preaching, but…too much preaching is doing too little to motivate people to look at the world differently and therefore live in it differently. If that’s so, we have to question what we preachers are actually saying about the Bible and about contemporary issues, and how well we’re engaging with our congregations.” Click here for more info
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Women in worship blog released….
Latest information is that there’s a fantastic new website “Women in Worship Network” that Vicky Beeching has just launched. Check out her blog entry athttp://vickybeeching.com/blog/womeninworshipnetwork-site-is-live/. Thanks to Peter Ould for this update.
Prepare Booking Form
Also the booking form for our 2010 Conference “Prepare: Realising our God-given potential“ has now been finalised, with workshops being led by Rosie Ward, Lis Goddard and Bridget Adams, the main speaker is still to be finalised so there will be a more detailed leaflet to follow but if you’re keen to get signed up then please download the form and get more information on our events pages, or download it here.
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The Awesome committee are pleased to announce we have finally secured a venue for a conference this September. It will be held in the beautiful house and settings of Lindors, which is in Gloucestershire.
Dates for the conference are Monday 27th to Wednesday 29th September
Booking form will be out soon email us if you want to get sent the booking form more will follow on the events page
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