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Session three: Building leadership competency
In this session you'll be exploring what it means to build leadership competency. Watch the accompanying videos from Ian Marchant and Yasmin Mohseni.
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The Public Leader course The Public Leader course is a retreat-based training course which seeks to equip emerging leaders in their 20s and 30s who are passionate about bringing Christian leadership to all areas of life across the UK. Designed for those in full time work, there are annual cohorts…
SENT: “Profound insight made simple”
It’s easy in our busy lives to consider passing up on anything that we perceive as eating into our precious time. So when opportunities arise to help us grow and get equipped as leaders, and especially where such opportunities do not infringe too much on our busy schedules, we tend to grab hold of…
God the Father
Growing up, I was a Daddy’s girl. Some of my best memories are of tearing along muddy orchard tracks in the pickup with my dad listening to Five Live, or the occasional business trip he let me come along on to London. He taught me so much about life, daring, hard work, respect, and a love that…
Kaiya Huleatt
Secular Lent: an ancient tradition in a modern world
That’s how Guardian columnist Dawn Foster wrote about Lent this week. During Lent Christians have traditionally given up food in forms of fasting, and this has expanded in recent years to the foregoing of many other things. It is also notable how popular this once obscure Christian discipline has…
Danny Webster
The Public Leader programme FAQs
What is the definition of a ‘public leader’? A public leader is a Christian who is intentional about bringing their faith to their leadership wherever God has placed them. There are two elements to this: ‘Public’ means that you are open about the fact that your Christian faith influences how you…
Good news in a bad news world
The news portrays our world in a never-ending cycle of unrelenting pain and misery. Well, so it seems to me. Though, perhaps for others, it’s a season of great challenge. Or, maybe this is, for some, just simply how the world is – sometimes bad things happen and sometimes they don’t. Whatever your…
The Test Room: a real life story of passing the test of love
Through the pastor’s book The Test Room, I discover a lot more about this ministry to some of the most vulnerable men in London, and the challenges that Rev Alex Gyasi, his family and his church congregation have faced along the way. In his foreword for the self-published book, Dr Jonathan…
Graham Hedges
Hope UK: Church drug policy
Hope UK is a Christian Drug Education Charity. Our mission is to equip young people to make drug-free choices and our vision is to see young people living confidently as Christians, free from drugs. We achieve this via our network of Voluntary Drug Educators (OCN Accredited), who deliver workshops…
Compassion UK launches appeal for mums and babies in Togo
As part of its mission to protect children worldwide from the devastating effects of poverty, Compassion UK has launched its Different Path Appeal to provide vital support to vulnerable mothers and babies in Togo. According to Unicef, one in every 20 babies in the West-African country do not make…
Naomi Osinnowo
Tackling climate change is a matter of urgency
The very first thing the Bible teaches us is that creation is good. As recoded in Genesis 1, God created the light, land, sea, vegetation, the sun and moon, fish, birds and every living creature and “saw that it was good”. The earth and everything on it reflect the wonder of God and our concern for…
Hazel MacIver
Will you back Open Doors to see change?
In an interview with the Evangelical Alliance, Erin James, content writer at Open Doors UK, answers some key questions about the campaign and the horrific persecution endured by Christian women, and makes an appeal to the UK church to put its weight behind the drive. Why are Christian women…
Naomi Osinnowo
A portion of good news with your coffee
It seems incredible, but apparently 16 per cent of us visit a coffee shop daily and a massive 80 per cent of people who visit coffee shops do so at least on a weekly basis. Coffee festivals are springing up all over the country and just last weekend, the London Coffee Festival alone attracted just…
Mental health: Let’s help youngsters flourish
There are a variety of pressures on young people today such as stress in education, family life, body image issues, bullying on and offline, around-the-clock social media and uncertain job prospects. In many areas across the UK, church youth workers are providing some of the last remaining youth…
Andrew Dubock
