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Prayer for evangelism
Fred Drummond, director of Evangelical Alliance Scotland, has written this prayer for you or your church to use, as we celebrate all that God has done over the past year and anticipate all that’s to come this year. Lord, we look back to last year.Thank you for every sign of your grace.For every…
Fred Drummond
Sir John Houghton, pioneering climate change scientist, dies age 88
A version of this obituary was previously published in Cambrian News.
Hannah Malcolm
Kintsugi Hope online wellbeing groups
We feel that more people and communities than ever before need to be connected and given a listening ear at this time when the coronavirus pandemic has made our world scarier and more uncertain than ever before. The current situation is affecting all of us in different ways, and we are seeing…
Ludivine Kadimba
Money and PPE boost for churches and ministries
As part of a new initiative called ‘This is Love’, Christian charity Samaritan’s Purse UK is partnering with churches and ministries as they seek to support those who are disadvantaged, suffering from the direct and indirect effects of coronavirus, during this time. Providing foodbanks and care…
Naomi Osinnowo
Lockdown reflections
The staff of the Evangelical Alliance have had the privilege of contacting all of our member church and organisation leaders over the last few weeks and we have been thrilled by how brilliantly the church has responded to this crisis. Christians truly are right at the forefront of tackling some of…
Leadership in Crisis webinar
As we can't hold our normal public leadership courses, we're bringing together our networks across the UK for webinars and online sessions featuring some of our regular speakers and invited guests. During this exclusive session Tim Cross reflected on his experience of leadership in crisis.
Three practical ideas for evangelism during lockdown
But it is also hard. Many churches are grieving and comforting one another through grief and bereavement. Most churches’ income has been impacted by an absence of hall lettings, conference bookings and the fact you can’t pass around a virtual Sunday collection plate. We do need to continue to look…
Phil Knox
The coronavirus conversations
During the conversations we had a range of guests and chatted to them about what we saw God doing during the coronavirus crisis, and how we as a church could respond.The conversations are all available to watch below.
Coronavirus conversations live: Gavin Calver, Jo Frost and Peter Lynas
Live conversation from 30th April looking at what God is up to in the church across the UK, how we can respond and what can be re-imagined as we look ahead.
Show yourself some compassion
I had a sick feeling in my stomach. I love my children, but the idea of being home with all four of them all day is filling me with huge amounts of anxiety. Will I be able to handle it? Suddenly Facebook is flooded with advice on how to look after my mental health: exercise regularly (but only once…
Patrick Regan OBE
To walk in freedom / Cerdded mewn rhyddid
Throughout the 10-week course, I was taught that in Christ I am now a holy one, set apart for God, and that I have the choice whether to believe the truth of what God says about me or to believe the lies fed to me by the world, the flesh and the devil. This teaching transformed my life: for the…
Sharon King
Prayer, faith and witness
Driving back from speaking at Gold Hill Baptist Church on Sunday, 15 March, there was a strange sense in my gut that things were about to change. The media stories were growing and the idea that things were about to become less free was increasingly clear. Within days, everything was being live…
Gavin Calver
Women after God's own heart
But when she looks online, Mimi feels less confident in her faith. The culture of the UK tells her she should be obsessed about sex, body image, consumer choices, the environment and mental wellbeing, all in one odd package of individualism. We are incredibly free to choose but find it hard to…
Amanda Jackson
Marriage, money and mindset
That’s probably why money is the number one trigger of arguments between partners, according to a 2017 YouGov survey, and the conflicts are intense, less easily resolved and endure for longer than many others. For Tim and Jacqui money was always tight growing up and, for most of their married life,…
Christine Daniel
Why leadership and trust can’t be separated
In a critical situation leadership is essential to ensure action is taken to prevent worse consequences – that much is straightforward. In the regular course of life there are innumerable tame problems that require tackling; these require leadership and might be difficult but have been done before.…
Danny Webster
