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Ignite Magazine Summer 2025

CONTENTS

Pages 6-7:
Rachel Jordan-Wolf:
A Vision for the Future.

Pages 8-11:
Equipping everyday evangelists to spread the Gospel.

Pages 12-15:
One family’s journey as they seek God

Pages 16-19:
A unique partnership between a local church and a high school

Pages 20-23:
Why Young People are opening the Word Again.

Pages 24-26:
One Young Person’s journey of Finding Jesus.

Pages 27-29:
Evangelism in the Everyday.

Pages 30-31:
Hope and Redemption Behind Bars.

Pages 32-34:
Bob Telford tells us about a unique mission method.

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Speakers Corner can at times be predictable, same old faces (many regulars among the many visitors who visit or pass through the park), same old arguments (how many times must we keep answering the same questions), same old interactions (arguments, debates & quality conversations).
Todays highlight was a chat with Attila, from Turkey. Raised a Moslem but now an atheist, a very useful time chatting away and he left with a John’s gospel to read.

Evangelism @ Speakers Corner. Hyde Park. London.

“Say a little and say it well.” – Proverb
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Speakers Corner in London’s Hyde Park is the oldest free speech platform in the world. People won the right to speak in mass protests in the 1860s and early 1870s. Some people believe the tradition is connected to the right of the condemned to a last speech before being hung at the Tyburn gallows, a practice that stopped at the end of the 18th century. Every Sunday people from all sorts of convictions come to Hyde Park in the afternoon to spread their message or to have fun.

Preaching today…

Activity: All Age Service
Date: 25th May 2025
Time: 10.30am
Speaker: Gordon Curley
Subject: Complete in Christ #3: ‘Crown Him Lord of all’
Bible Passage: Colossians chapter 1 verses 15-23
YouTube Livestream: CLICK HERE

A good start to the South Cluster Group!
Teaching/training with Dave Boden (Executive Director of Grace Foundation), a walk along the beach at Bournemouth, a visit to Harry’s and a few laughs before folks headed to their rooms!
Looking forward to tomorrow.

Counties South West Cluster Group
24 hour Counties South West Cluster Group (Organised by Penny). Poole. UK
A chance to catch up and support (and be supported) colleagues in all of our varied ministries.
Venue: The Green House Christian Centre. Poole.

A real thrill to baptise Ava this morning.
Great to see so many of her family & friends attend the service.

Preaching today…

Activity: All Age Service (& Believers Baptism)
Date: 18th May 2025
Time: 10.30am
Speaker: Gordon Curley
Subject: Complete in Christ #2: ‘Good News worth sharing!’
Bible Passage: Colossians chapter 1 verses 3-14
YouTube Livestream: CLICK HERE

The final ‘NET’ event in this series of men’s outreach events and it did not disappoint! A good mixture of ages, some very good food and a beautiful spring evening were the ‘aperitifs’, the ‘main course’ was guest speaker Shaun Sweeney who as darkness descended shared the good news of the gospel.
Great see Christian men inviting their non-Christian family members and friends along.

The Parable of the Growing Seed (Mark 4:26-29).

Jesus said, “This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the ground. Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how. All by itself the soil produces grain—first the stalk, then the head, then the full kernel in the head. As soon as the grain is ripe, he puts the sickle to it, because the harvest has come.”