Sarah Richards has been in full-time ministry since 1985. From a background of itinerant evangelism and working within church planting initiatives, Sarah pioneered Cornerstone Church Swansea in 1991 with her husband, Julian. Sarah’s passion is for the church to go increasingly beyond the meeting mentality into creating Acts 2 community and radical devotion to Christ. Sarah […]
James Emery White: Innovating the Church: Session 1 Audio – New Culture, New Methods James Emery White is the founding and senior pastor of Mecklenburg Community Church in Charlotte, North Carolina; President of Church and Culture, a ministry which explores the intersection of faith and culture; and ranked adjunctive professor of theology and culture of Gordon-Conwell […]
Graeme and I came down to New Zealand to be with our Auckland family for Christmas, we wonderfully saw in the New Year with a group of old friends, five couples staying together in a large beach in a place called Waipu Cove in Northland – it was sunshine, blue skies and the beach at […]
Usually most of my reading is contemporary stuff, either the latest Christian authors such as John Ortberg, Mark Driscoll, Rick Warren and Bill Hybels, or contemporary fiction such as John Grisham, Ian Rankin or Susan Hill. However, I’ve decided in 2011 to follow a pattern set by Rick Warren, who says that “25{%} of my […]
Notes from a seminar session by Mindy Caliguire for Senior Pastors at Willow Creek: The most important qualification for leadership is the spiritual vitality and interior lives of the leaders, whatever their gifting. The current situation: a lot of leaders are depleted. They are not experiencing the life that they are inviting others into. Can we […]
The Christmas season is upon us!!!! At the moment I am feeling rather calm and peaceful knowing that for Graeme and I our “official Christmas Day dinner” celebrated with our British family here in London is over for another year. We made the celebration day at the end of November as we leave for New […]
In response to our request for GLS feedback we received this email and thought we’d throw it open for discussion: From: Mieke Sanders Is Bill Hybels and the Willow Creek Conference team off course? This is the third year I am attending the Willow Creek conference. In those past 2 years, I have been very impressed […]
Came across King’s Church Catford’s site today and read of their phenomenal growth over the last decade. There are a couple of great videos that Senior Pastor Steve Tibbert has made to share the vision with the church for the future plans and make several appeals. Watch
Article from WillowNews. Executive editor, Paul Braoudakis, sat down with Clynical Psychologist and Author Henry Cloud to discuss his book, Integrity, and what it means to church leaders. What’s the difference between integrity and character? Cloud: If you’re going to build an airplane, you choose a metal that’s going to be able to meet the […]
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Leadership Life Habits
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