Seedbeds: Growing leaders - Growing communities

Sharing the Bible with neighbours can change everything, but only if it’s meaning-full sharing.

John and Olive Drain know this from the inside. Drawing on decades of pioneering experience across the world, they joined our Newbigin Pioneering Hub this weekend to explore what it means to let Scripture breathe in local contexts. They named something many pioneers feel but rarely say: the Bible has been weaponised, used to close conversations rather than open them. Then they showed us another way, rooted in creativity, compassion, and deep attentiveness to the people and places God has called us to.

Something shifted in us. Contextualisation is not a compromise; it is faithfulness and relevancy together.

This is the kind of formation our current Cohort is receiving as they move toward their final pitch to a panel in July and their graduation. Real encounter with real practitioners. The seeds being planted now will take root in neighbourhoods across the country.

Watch this space. United Reformed Church, Congregational Federation, Church Mission Society (CMS).

RELEASE DATE 25 JUNE
1) Daily Liturgy - prayers for morning, midday and evening on a seven-day cycle including “body prayers” and times for quiet spiritual practices every day
2) The Beatitudes in today’s language – so Jesus words shape our daily lives;
3) Waymakers and Waymarkers, a 366-day calendar of people and events that bent the arc of British history towards justice;
4) Bespoke Occasional Prayers written by activists for activists, to use at every kind of gathering.
Written by over 40 frontline ministers, leaders and activists, it’s a resource to use alone, in your community or WITH US! We will be LIVESTREAMING daily midweek pauses at 8am, using this resource, on our YouTube Channel from July (moving from our FaceBook page to make it easier for those avoiding social media to join us).

Pre-order the book https://www.dltwritingforyou.com/product-page/living-for-jesus-and-justice-daily-prayers-for-radical-christians
& subscribe to our YouTube channel http://www.youtube.com/ NOW you’ll be ready to join our online spiritual practice community in July.

So wonderful to see Tim Evens with Seedbeds Australia!