Andrew Jones has written an interesting piece that explores how mission initiatives might be self sustaining. He takes some of Henry Venn’s (a key player in the history of CMS) ideas from the mid-19th century and looks at how they might resonate today. There is also a fuller article on the CMS-B website. Definitely worth a look.

I’m loving some of the stuff that Jon Birch is doing over at ASBO Jesus...

Is it possible that we spend a lot of the time missing the point?

So here we go…blogging again…

It’s been about two years since the old typepad blog was killed off and I’m not really sure how this one will shape up – but perhaps that’s part of the experience…

I’ve been asking myself why I’m starting this all again and the best reasons I could come up with were:

1. While we’ve been building the new site we’ve asked everyone else to do it – I guess it’s only fair that I join in!

2. The reason we’ve been encouraging the rest of our staff and Mission Partners to do this is because we reckon its a good way of sharing some thinking about mission stuff and encouraging people to get involved in working through some of the issues. Again I suppose I should really buy into that too!

3. I am a self-absorbed narcissist…that one’s a joke…mostly…

Let the rambling begin…