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Mercy Ships: How will your church make history?
For 2000 years, the Church has followed the model of Jesus, by loving the poor and serving the sick. Christians founded the first hospitals, pioneered colleges of nursing, and established schools for deaf and blind children. We follow in the footsteps of Church heroes and history makers; legendary…
Christian Schools Trust: conference
Our aim is to inspire, encourage and develop models of educational leadership and teaching practice that serve the body of Christ, local communities and the nation. The trust is networked to scores of Christian schools in the UK and internationally. Our next conference ‘A Truly Christian Education?…
Steve Clifford: unity for the sake of the gospel
As I sat on the platform of the Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches (FIEC) leader’s conference at the International Conference Centre in Torquay, I reflected on the amazing diversity of the evangelical community across the UK. Over the previous eight months, an enormous banner with the…
Steve Clifford
Where payday lender Wonga went wrong
It was a tech start-up touted to soar into the stratosphere – alongside Facebook, Amazon and Google. It attracted investors and board members from venture capitalists and luminaries of the digital world. It had quirky TV adverts with puppets, and a slick online system that provided the user with…
Danny Webster
Neighbourhood Chaplains – helping churches to heal their communities
Over the years, readers of idea magazine will have encountered numerous stories which describe how the Evangelical Alliance and its members are moved by the Spirit of God to be bold, brave, steadfast and pioneering in the UK, to make the sacrificial love of Jesus Christ known in the midst of an…
Naomi Osinnowo
Off the Fence: Antifreeze
It operates the following three projects which provide life-saving support and care for the most vulnerable individuals in the area. Antifreeze supports those who have struggled with life-destroying addictions, mental health issues, job loss, family breakdown, violence and bereavement which have…
MediaServe
MediaServe has over 20 years’ experience of partnering with different ministries in many developing countries striving to meet the desperate need for culturally relevant materials for evangelism and discipleship. We serve Christians located in areas where biblical material is largely unavailable.…
Thirtyone:eight
We help individuals, organisations, faith and community groups to protect vulnerable people from abuse.To do this, we provide a complete safeguarding solution for organisations including training, consultancy, DBS services and a 24 hour helpline, making sure everyone is equipped and empowered with…
Relational Mission: Courage conference
The church is called to serve that broken world, but in such a climate God’s people can also become fearful and try to hide in the shadows. God has not given us a spirit of fearfulness, but a Spirit of boldness and courage. Our leadership conference in 2018 explored what this might look like for…
Stewardship's new CEO talks money, leadership and more
Ram Gidoomal CBE, Stewardship’s chair of trustees, says the panel had to choose from a competitive field of candidates, and they unanimously selected you. In your view, what made you stand out? I was humbled to be selected by the trustees to lead Stewardship. I obviously have no knowledge of the…
Guest writer
Let the mission to reach young adults begin
I still don’t feel like I’ve been out of the education system long enough to have escaped the feeling that, in September, something new happens. Memories of emerging from long summer holidays into an autumn term, armed with a new pencil case, bag and good intentions to make this new school year or…
Phil Knox
Christian Hope
Working directly through the Anglican church at Parish level we aim to share the love of God by responding to local needs, we send funds to support a variety of community projects to improve the lives of those in need. Current projects include improving health through the provision of medication…
Activate your life
Previously known as Christian Viewpoint, over our last 50 years we have seen styles of evangelism change. Our focus - friendship evangelism - never goes out of fashion because it’s God’s plan for us (and it works)! We aim to resource and inspire women through articles, social media, events and…
Evangelism Explosion: Xee
This resource introduces key skills such as learning how to connect with people, establishing quality relationships and how to share the Gospel through dialogue that is not confrontational. It sparks interest in spiritual matters by easily moving from secular conversation to discussions about…
IDOP: “We cannot stay silent,” says Open Doors UK & Ireland’s CEO
Of all the Christians charities in the UK, why Open Doors? As I approach the last third of my career I have been thinking about the sort of legacy I want to leave behind. I don’t want to waste my time. The most important thing to me is to contribute to building the kingdom of God around the world.…
Naomi Osinnowo
