Naomi Osinnowo

Naomi was the Evangelical Alliance's editorial content manager from 2018 to 2021. Positions with publishers and within the marketing and communications faculty of a higher education institution, plus stints as a reporter, enabled the media and cultural studies graduate, who has an NCTJ diploma in newspaper journalism, to hone the necessary skills and qualities to serve members well.

Soul Survivor: “Our summer events in 2019 will be our last”

6 June 2018After 27 years running Christian events in England and Scotland, which have enabled thousands of young people to meet Jesus for the first time, Soul Survivor will be brought to a close in 2019. The Christian movement announced on Friday that after "much prayer and consideration" a unanimous decision was reached between the founder, co-hosts, leadership team and board of trustees to make next year's series of summer events its last. Founder Mike Pilavachi commented, "We know this may come as…

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Paula Gooder's Phoebe: let your imagination run loose

23 May 2018Being a firm believer in the Holy Spirit's ability, and assignment, to unpack God's word in order to help my heart grasp His will and purpose, I had a few reservations about Christian fiction. I wondered, how could fiction help me better engage with the Bible and God? Not only did Paula help me to understand the value of literary pieces such as Phoebe, but she revealed how her first work of fiction celebrates the work of scholars, helps the church to get the most out of the apostle Paul's…

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Why not try?

26 April 2018Check out Discipleship Explored, an eight-episode documentary series with accompanying handbooks, which will take you on a journey into the book of Philippians. It's shot all over the world, features interviews with believers across seven countries and five continents, and aims to answer the question: how could Paul, under house arrest, say that he had discovered the secret of contentment (Philippians 4:12)? And is that secret something we can discover for ourselves?…

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Flying the gospel to the ends of the earth

26 April 2018The developing world has seen no shortage of calamity, conflict, instability and suffering over the past century. Folk just have to turn on the news to see communities torn apart by war, battered by floods or stifled by insufficient medical care. So frequent are these types of news stories, that video footage of people screaming because their relatives have been killed or queueing at public taps with empty half-gallon water bottles because the natural water supply is drying up seems quite…

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Home is where the heart is in the kingdom of God

26 April 2018As I put my fingers to the keyboard to write this article, I'm still struck by my interview with Pete Cunningham, director of Green Pastures CBS Limited. Pastor Pete, as he is known, insisted that we meet face to face at the Evangelical Alliance's head office in London for the interview; and if we hadn't, I wouldn't have been able to perceive how much he loves Jesus and the extent to which he's modelling his own ministry on that of Christ's. Green Pastures buys properties to help churches and…

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We want to see the kingdom of God break out across Scotland

26 April 2018More than 20 years after the revival of Whiteinch church, Shona Stirling, director of pastoral care at the church's charity, Whiteinch Transformation, tells the Evangelical Alliance's editorial content manager, Naomi Osinnowo, how the church and its charity are on a mission to see the kingdom of God break out across Scotland. If you could sum up Whiteinch church in just a few sentences, what would they be? We see church as much more than what we do on a Sunday. We, as followers of Jesus Christ,…

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We need to intercede

10 April 2018This tragic news came a couple of days after we joined in fellowship to celebrate the resurrection of our Lord and Saviour. But, the reality is, that deaths and life-threatening injuries of this nature are a regular occurrence in the capital. Two days after the shootings, a teenage boy was stabbed to death. A few days before that, on resurrection Sunday itself, a 20-year-old man died in the street after being fatally stabbed. It was a few days before this incident that two men were knifed to…

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Gear up for a period of powerful prayer

19 March 2018This global wave of prayer, known as Thy Kingdom Come, was started by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York in 2016, and has seen individuals and churches around the world petitioning God for the salvation of their friends, families and neighbours. Justin Welby and John Sentamu are urging you to get involved this year, from 10-20 May, marking the season between the Ascension and Pentecost.An initiative of this sort could not be more timely. Our Talking Jesus research, commissioned jointly by…

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