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It's here! Your guide to the new Evangelical Alliance website
We hope that the changes we’ve made to design and navigation will mean that you’re able to find everything you need to support you and your church as you serve God in the UK today. What’s new? Resources - We want you to be equipped in your life with Jesus so we’ve created a space which gathers all…
Alexandra Davis
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
Evangelical Alliance champions one public voice
What’s the worst thing that an MP could do? You can tell a lot about a profession or a vocation from asking what its worst crime is. For each one there’s often an act of wrongdoing that goes against that profession in a fundamental way. For doctors, it’s to do harm rather than to heal. For a…
John Coleby
Church leader: "Our unity changes the spiritual atmosphere"
The apostle Paul paints a vivid picture of the church as the body of Christ, with Jesus Himself as the head. For those who have been Christ-followers for a while, His words will be well known, but sometimes the plain truth can be lost in our familiarity. Let’s read these words as though, perhaps,…
Steve Uppal
Jesus' great commission: we all can fulfil it
Born out of a desire to equip the UK church for mission, Great Commission has shared story after story of people stepping out in their context, sharing their faith and making Jesus known. Now two years in, we’re certainly not done yet. It can sometimes feel like evangelism is best left to the…
Eve Paterson
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
Through Faith Missions
Through Faith Missions (TFM) supports churches in mission and evangelism. We help to run evangelistic events from smaller weekend missions to large ‘Walk’ missions involving many churches. We also run training courses in practical evangelism to equip churches with the skilled people they need for…
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
A deeper relationship yields greater results
“When the storm comes and the fierce winds, when all around it is battered and besieged, the tree with deep roots will not be uprooted. It will not fall.” A board meeting, a training session and a church sermon. I have heard the same analogy and the same call to the church in three very different…
Jo Frost
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.…
CPO
Churches who want to reach out at Christmas and Easter will find a free catalogue and website packed full of new resources, ideas and campaigns for your church to get involved with. You can customise publicity with your own details online, order posters, banners, invitations, tracts and digital…
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…
Great Commission to share Jesus at CRE
That’s why I’m so excited that we’re going to be running three seminars at the Christian Resources Exhibition, a three-day event that shares our vision of working together to get the very best inspiration and innovation for the UK church. Individual members of the Evangelical Alliance can get their…
Eve Paterson
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…
