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Conference 2011                                                                 
Grace and Truth: "Turning the world upside down"
 

We’ve invited Steve Hollinghurst, long time member of FPE, as main speaker exploring how "grace and truth" turn our world upside down. 

I am married to Anne who I met in Christian drama group at Hull University. Since then we have both pursued Christian ministry. Initially running a church youth group in Sussex which grew from about 6 to 60 members during the 5 years we gave most of our spare time to it. We then became CPAS Urban Evangelists in 1990, doing youth evangelism in inner-city Nottingham and joining FPE.  This remains a defining experience for us. We quickly found everything we thought we knew about youth evangelism didn’t work and found ourselves having to learn about the very different culture we encountered. This has shaped our ministries ever since and was the beginning of my exploration of cross-cultural mission amongst those with no church background that now forms the basis of my role with the Sheffield Centre.

 

We trained together at Trinity Bristol and were ordained together in 1996. My training offered the possibility to do masters research exploring New Age and Paganism; not only as an important area for mission but also a chance to revisit the few years in my teens when I was a practicing occultist as part of my own spiritual journey before I became a follower of Christ. After a shared curacy we both went into university chaplaincy at different universities. I began my current role as Researcher in Evangelism to Post-Christian Culture at the Church Army Sheffield Centre in 2003, whilst moving with Anne’s ministry to various parts of the country. We are currently in St Albans where Anne became vicar of the city centre parish in January 2010.

 

In my job as well as research into contemporary evangelism and culture I support Church Army’s projects working with Fresh Expressions in areas like Nightclubs, Arts Venues and street outreach.  I do a wide range of training and speaking engagements in Britain and abroad looking at evangelism within the emerging culture. I am also engaged in training churches to run stalls at Mind Body Spirit events. I am involved in Elemental, a venue offering Christian Spirituality at the Glastonbury festival. I am a member of the Lausanne World Evangelisation issue group on New Religious movements. I am also author of New Age Paganism and Christian Mission, Grove 2003, Coded Messages, the Da Vinci Code and evangelism,
Grove 2006 and with others of Equipping Your Church in a Spiritual Age, CBTI 2005. My latest book Mission-Shaped Evangelism Canterbury Press 2010 examines contemporary culture and the history of cross-cultural mission in order to set out an approach to evangelism today.

 

Outside of work one of my passions is cooking, and keeping a wine cellar to accompany the outcome.  Together we enjoy walking, theatre and music. Anne does not however share my passion for the three TV series in the CSI franchise or my boxed set of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.


Sue Hope who will speak on the "Bible and Evangelism" was brought up as an Anglican. My father worked for the colonial service and so we divided our time between Hong Kong and Edinburgh, where I went to school.  In my early twenties, after a personal crisis, I came to faith and spent some years at St Michael-le-Belfrey, York before going to Durham to train for the ministry in 1980.

 

I was ordained first as a deaconess, and served my ‘curacy’ in York Diocese before moving in 1986 to the heavily urbanised context of north Sheffield.  I loved parish life with its variety and the wonderful privilege of being invited into people’s lives in all kinds of situations. I saw the churches grow and people coming to faith.

Having been vicar of two parishes, both in the industrial end of the city, I took up the role of Sheffield Diocesan Missioner in 2002. This was a very different sort of job from a vicar’s.  I saw my role primarily as strengthening the churches for mission and in assisting the Diocese to become more ‘mission-minded’.  I missed parish life, but it was enormously rewarding as a job: it was great to work with so many different churches and groups. During my time as Missioner I wrote Mission-Shaped Spirituality – an exploration of the relationship between spirituality and mission and evangelism.

 

At present I am part-time priest in charge of St Paul’s Shipley, in the diocese of Bradford and part-time Adviser in Evangelism in the Diocese. It is a brilliant job.

The diocese has deeply rural parishes in the dales, and the multi-cultural mix of Bradford. The great task is mobilising the churches for mission.

I have served on General Synod, and the Liturgical Commission and as a Trustee of Anglican Renewal Ministries. I’ve grown to love and value all the traditions of the Anglican church: nurtured as I was in my twenties in the charismatic evangelical tradition I have also found great resources in the catholic approach to spirituality and I am a tertiary of the Order of the Holy Paraclete, Whitby.   I enjoy cooking, and I’ve recently been enjoying singing in a ‘natural singing’ choir, but I guess my favourite pastime is walking my border collie, Bree, and generally chilling out with friends. 


 

In addition there will be a mix of fpe old favourites and something new!

  • Worship will be led by Mick Ellor & Team

  • Super-Market Place! A forum for the exchange of ideas and stories 

  • Lots of opportunities for prayer ministry

  • Meal & bar times for catching up with old friends and making new ones

 

 

 Please be sure to book as soon as possible as this helps greatly with administration 


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Conference Booking Details:

 

Date: 24 - 26 January 2011

Time:   Begins with tea at 3.45 pm Monday

           (arrive any time 2.30 pm onwards), 

            and ends with lunch on Wednesday.

 

Venue: The Hayes Conference Centre, Swanwick,  Derbyshire

Cost per person: 
           £145 for single occupancy in en-suite room
           £130 for shared occupancy in en-suite room 
           £115 for single occupancy in standard room;
                   limited availability

                  (£5 discount for booking by 30 September) 

Booking deadline: 20 December 2010.