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Welcome
I hope you find the latest blogs below of interest, please pass on to colleagues and/or use the material in your bulletins. This newsletter is stored here for ease of linking if you want people to access all the information.
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Grace,
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Making disciples that multiply
A free, nine-week, online, interactive Disciple Making Course, training believers to gain a Biblical vision of why and how to make disciples. Then, as a community, they can implement disciple making together.
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Checking for mission drift
Many organizations that are productive are adrift from their mission. Mission drift does not mean an organization is not producing anything good, but it does mean they have left their first love.
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Marketplace Renewal |
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Heal by Hair
An initiative to improve the mental health and well‑being of African women through the hairdresser’s chair - one client at a time. Training equips hairdressers with knowledge, breaks stigma re mental‑health disorders, provides information.
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What is it like to run a Business as Mission company?
Especially in the kind of challenging contexts that business as mission practitioners often find themselves. Reflections of one CEO and wisdom for those considering starting a BAM organisation.
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In-Person - New Local: Stronger Things Conference 2026 - 9am 16 Jun - London
Stronger Things is an annual opportunity to get together with the changemakers in place: local government, health partners, VCSEs, funders and the voluntary sector all under one roof for a day of inspiration, connection and learning – all focused on imagining and delivering community power in places across the UK.
Sessions include; How do we build local economies that work for people and place? Putting neighbours back into neighbourhoods. How can place-based budgeting help us build the public sector of the future? What does it take to sustain community-led initiative? How do we create the conditions for rigorous and actionable learning in place-based working? Exploring personal stories to strengthen community bonds. Digital frontiers in resident-led policymaking. Making Neighbourhood Health Neighbourhood-Led.
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Online - Every Day Justice: Foundations for Social Action - 6:30pm 17 Jun
God loves justice. This means that justice is also an important part of our discipleship, as we learn how to live like Christ and share the good news of His offer of forgiveness and reconciliation. Building relationships in our local community is a vital part of responding and sharing in God’s mission.
Justice and social action can often feel overwhelming or out of reach. but they don’t have to be. Over the course of the webinar, we’ll explore how justice can be a natural part of our everyday discipleship: rooted in prayer, Bible study and worship, outward looking to the needs of our local communities, and expressed through both small steps and bold actions.
This workshop is designed for anyone who wants to engage more deeply with God’s heart for justice and social transformation. You may be unsure about where to start or what this might look in practice. You may already be involved in social action projects or volunteering and are wondering how to embed justice more deeply into your everyday life, or wanting to cultivate a shared vision for justice within your church community. This workshop invites you to embrace a life of everyday justice, not necessarily by adding more to your plate, but by aligning your heart with God’s, and letting His love for justice shape the way you see the world.
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In-Person - Multiply: North - 9:30am 23 Jun - Leeds
Multiply: North is hosted by a new collaboration of Baptist, Anglican and ecumenical organisations, united by a vision to see healthy churches planted and multiplied across the north of England.
Multiply: North is for every church that longs to reach new people, in new and renewed ways, with the Good News of Jesus Christ. Gather with local leaders and teams to share wisdom across traditions, contexts and models. We’ll focus on how we build teams, grow culture and develop networks, combining insights from frontline practitioners with the stories and experiences of church plants.
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In-Person - Growing Faith: Growing Confidence - 10am 24 Jun - Birmingham
The annual Growing Faith Conference is for everyone who wants to put children and young people even closer to the heart of all we do in church, home and school - especially where those spheres overlap.
An inspiring and participative programme will have a strong emphasis on the voice and agency of young people. It will include young people from Growing Faith Hub teams and elsewhere leading worship and sharing their lived experience. We're very excited that our keynote speaker is Dave Boden from Grace Foundation. Dave will help us explore his fascinating and informative work on Gen Alpha.
There will be the chance to catch up with the cutting edge 2026 Growing Faith research into music and faith and structured opportunities to hear and reflect on the ongoing discoveries of others working in the home/church/school intersections.
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In-Person and Online - How to scale social innovations: influencing and advocacy - 6pm 2 Jul - London
NESTA. Achieving social impact at scale is rarely a straightforward journey. Far too many transformative ideas languish at the pilot stage or lose momentum because they struggle to influence the right people at the right time.
Following on from a first session on building delivery networks, this second session on How to scale social innovations, focuses on the power of influencing others. We will explore what it takes to engage the people who can drive large-scale adoption of an idea, drawing on the panel's experiences and the practical frameworks we’ve tried here at Nesta, showcased in our scaling toolbox.
A panel of experts who have successfully navigated the challenges that come with influencing people will discuss lessons from the frontline of scaling, from campaigning and advocacy to engaging directly with policymakers. We will also touch on the role of advising and training others to help grow an idea or advocate for it on your behalf.
If you wish to attend, please contact Joe Owen on events@nesta.org.uk
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