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New training topics always being added
8th May 2018
I am always adjusting training events and adding new variations to existing topics or designing new themes. Several new ideas have been added this year.
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Make every-member ministry a reality
3rd April 2018
Uploaded to the website today is a major article inspired by a dream of making every-member ministry actually work.
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Church Administrators need to join UCAN
21st March 2018
Now I no longer run the UK Church Administrator Network (UCAN) it is important than any Church Administrators visiting my website who are not already members of UCAN join the network! You do this at http://www.churchadministrators.net.
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But who organised Billy Graham's crusades?
22nd February 2018
Billy Graham's death yesterday, or 'change of address' as he preferred to call it taking a phrase originally used by DL Moody, has rightly led to large numbers of glowing tributes for such a remarkable man of God. I myself, as a schoolboy, 'went forward' at one of his meetings in 1966 and it changed the whole direction of my life.
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Get people talking about time off work
1st February 2018
A new set of Training Notes, uploaded to this site today, seeks to get Ministers and lay leaders discussing their different perspectives on what it means to 'work' and 'rest'.
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We all gained immensely from the course and it has given me much to reflect on.
A curate after a weekend training course on managing change - September 2018