(G12 is a type of cell church that originated in Bogota Columbia. In it everyone is discipled in the context of a single sex cell by their cell leader. They are also trained and supported to open their own …
In these days of GPS on mobile phones and Sat Nav in our cars there is rarely an excuse for getting lost. Jenny and I make regular trips to Jersey to work with the fabulous Freedom Church there. Whenever …
Miles was another story altogether in my leadership of our prison ministry. After coming out of prison, he moved into a friend’s house down the road. If you met Miles you would know he had had a rough life. …
Like the others, Geoff came to us from our outreach in Horfield prison in Bristol. The monolithic grey Victorian institution sat menacingly on our doorstep for years before we dared venture inside. When we did we were amazed at …
Dave came across us in Horfield prison and decided that he wanted more from life than the regular cycle of going in and out of prison every few months. He was a classic recidivist. Nothing anyone had done could …
He was every pastor’s dream of a new convert. He was enthusiastic, passionate, got totally involved, blessed everyone around him, and above everything else had a dramatic past that God had rescued him from (or so we thought). We …
Hard on the heals of the hugely successful ‘Now discover your strengths’ by Marcus Buckingham and Donald O Clifton, there have been the usual follow on books that develop the original ideas further. If you have never done the …
There can actually be great deal of difference between what leaders think they should be, and what followers actually want. In Jo Owen’s ‘How to lead’ he looks at the improbability of the perfect leader. He or she should …
Whether you are leading an SME, a departmental team, a project, a missional community, or a small group bible study, the issue of motivating others is always a challenge. It’s easy to think that in paid employment it’s easier, …
Henry Kissinger (U.S. secretary of state under Richard Nixon) said that leadership is the art of ‘taking people where they would not have gone by themselves’. This of course presupposes that we know where people really want to go, …
