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A Prayer Adventure

You know prayer should be a source of many adventures. As disciples we are always asking ‘what are you saying to me, and what am I going to do about it’. Back in 1981 I was asking God about my medical career. I had just finished my training for General Practice and was praying about where he wanted me to go. My eye was drawn to a small ad in the British medical Journal which simply said ‘Christian partner wanted for single handed practice.’ My research told me that going into partnership with this particular man would be career suicide, because of his reputation. But the more I prayed it through with the leaders of my church, the more God seemed to be saying, ‘Go for it, this is the one’. 
 
Having accepted the job and worked in difficult circumstances for 3 months, you can imagine my surprise when I received a letter through the door one night saying, ‘Dear Nic, as of 31st March, the partnership is ended.’ Wow, I didn’t see that coming. To cut a long story short, I ended up being appointed to take over the practice 3 months later because the original Dr resigned. At the age of 27 I inherited a practice of over 3,000 patients. Wow again!
 
The challenges weren’t over, as in his wrath, the previous Dr refused to sell the premises with the practice leaving me just 6 weeks to find, purchase and fit out a new general practice facility. We completed the purchase on a Friday and had to open shop 3 days later. The church community moved in (it was like Challenge Anneka on TV for those who remember it) over the weekend and about 30 people turned round a very run-down house into a smart GP's surgery. The pictures tell the story. It was a great adventure that started in prayer.


What a Time
Given what is happening in the world, what a time to encourage people to pray. So many hearts are heavy and people are afraid.  These are desperate times. Many people turn to God who would not normally do so. The desire in encouraging people to pray is that they will be led into an experience of the kindness of God.

Try Praying is for those who are not religious and don't go to church. A challenge to give it a go.Try Praying is a resource for people like that: no church connection or interest, but open to find out about God. The Try Praying booklet is a 7-day prayer guide and is now being used by many to pass on to friends and family with a few words of encouragement, ‘Why don’t you try praying for a week and see what happens in your life?’

Kairos Network Church (A Kairos Connexion church) were part of a Harrogate wide initiative using Try Praying. Ben, the vicar said ‘We have found it really helpful, especially in mobilising our shy evangelists - a good tool to help people share the gospel.’
If you want information about the project that has grown around this go to Try Praying. There is also an app available with the 7 day journey of prayer.

Hear Peter Anderson from Edinburgh share how he has used this tool 

Do you want to hear God's voice more clearly?

Through prophecy we can hear His voice, know His guidance and be empowered to step out into His kingdom purposes. And when a prophetic culture is combined with a missional passion then communities can be transformed. If you would like to grow personally in your journey of hearing God's voice and develop your prophetic ministry, then Accessible Prophecy offers in-depth coaching.

Coaching huddles operate zoom sessions on a fortnightly basis over 1 year and these are their aims:
- That you will see personal transformation in your own walk with God
- That you will see significant growth in your understanding and experience of hearing God's voice
- That you will experience the benefit of huddles as a tool for training and mentoring others. 

Interested?
Please contact sue.glover62@gmail.com for more details or visit the website
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 No Rules Rules: By Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer

                                     



Book review by Chris Bond, Hope Chapel, Bristol

Within the  Kairos Connexion network we share a vision for church that is a mobilised body of Christians actively building the Kingdom wherever they are. Alan Hirsch talks about each believer having within them this kernel of Kingdom DNA that has the potential to multiply exponentially. A lot of our discussions are around how we curate environments for this Kingdom potential to grow. 

No Rules Rules tells the story of culture and environment building within Netflix. It’s not a Christian company but many of the values around empowerment, de-centralisation, and risk-taking are close to our own. 

What is so useful about the book is it goes beyond just sketching an inspirational vision. It explains how they have implemented this culture, re-shaped it based on what has and hasn’t worked, and then developed it further. 

For example, in our churches we probably share a desire for people to innovate and develop new missional visions. We see some of these succeed and others not. We try to balance giving people the encouragement to have a go whilst also share our wisdom of what we suspect may not work. Netflix similarly wants its employees to be driving new ideas and taking risks. There are some rich insights into how they have created an environment where these risk taking ideas are successful more often than they were previously. 

Another section of the book goes into how Netflix people lead ‘with context not control.’ Again these insights are relevant to us on our journeys: 

“Leading with context is more difficult but gives considerably more freedom to your employees. You provide all the information you can so that your employees can make great decisions and accomplish their work without oversight or process controlling actions.” 

“When one of your people does something dumb, don’t blame them. Instead ask yourself what context you failed to set. Are you articulate and inspiring enough in expressing your goals and strategy?” 

So, this is a great read to help us build church environments with cultures that support risk- taking, ownership, continual growth and learning. 


Fusion Student Worker Opportunites..
Fusion and The Bridge, a Kairos Connexion Hub church, are partnering to create this full-time or part-time with diploma student work role which has two distinct parts but one clear mission.
There are two options to apply for:
Option 1 (part-time with diploma and full-time in third year – 3-year contract)
Option 2 (full-time 1-year contract with view to extend)
For more details see below

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