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Download Resource ReSource Winter Newsletter 2018 What a great autumn this has been here at ReSource! It has been the busiest since I started as Director, with a full diary of events and engagements, and we have made some significant progress in implementing our growth strategy. There have been some major upheavals too, successfully navigated I am Churches Alive in the Spirit pleased to say, in the office and staff moves to Telford in the west midlands. I and Active in Mission am also delighted that Bishop John Holbrook, who introduces himself later in this Newsletter, has agreed to be the new Chair of the ReSource Trustees, and that there are other Trustee appointments pending which I look forward to announcing in the course of next year. It has also been a joy to welcome James Lazarus as our Development Manager, and to be benefitting already from his expertise and experience. We are ending 2018 in good heart and with a sense of anticipation about what is ahead for us in the year to come. I say more later in the Newsletter about some of the development work currently in progress, and you will see a note in the side bar about the state of play with the Funding Appeal. Worship on St Luke’s, Bath Two substantial pieces of work for which I would value your prayers are, firstly, Weekend Away a series of conversations with possible partner ministries, which will begin in at Brunel Manor December and continue through the first quarter of next year and, secondly, some focussed work to develop a ministry-menu that we can offer to churches Our fundraising in 2018 locally, regionally and nationally. I am particularly grateful to the focus-group along with the current that is working with me at the moment on this second piece of work, which Appeal has raised over needs wide and wise input if we are to offer a ministry which the church both £80,000 towards the needs and welcomes. I look forward to this going public by Easter 2019. Both £200,000 we need in 2018 of these pieces of work are being done in parallel with developing processes and 2019 to implement to locate, deploy and support a larger team of Associates and Regional our development plans. Coordinators who can deliver and advocate for us more widely. Thank you to those who have been able to give, God is bringing into ReSource a number of people who, either in paid or and to the Fisherbeck Trust volunteer roles, are helping to bring the vision of a wider work into reality. I for increasing its annual am deeply indebted to them and couldn’t manage without them, and they are grant to ReSource. great to work with! For your prayers, I am particularly looking for someone And thanks be to God. who can develop and oversee ReSource’s ministry of intercession (for the churches we work with and for renewal, discipleship and mission in little, local If you are able to and ordinary churches nationally), as a member of my core team. If you think contribute a one off this might be you, please let’s explore it. The Trustees are also looking to donation, or take out a appoint to their number someone who has financial expertise and experience monthly standing order, to be the charity’s Treasurer. Again, if you think this might be you, please let we would be delighted! me know. Our target is in sight! I have mentioned those who have joined us in the last few months, and some Please use the Response of the volunteer posts we are looking to fill, but let me finish by thanking Dr Form already circulated or Alan Kerbey for all that he has given us in a consultancy capacity during the last available on the website. year. Alan has been a pleasure to work with and has set the fundraising-ball Or contact Paula in the rolling. He will continue to be alongside us informally, but has recently taken ReSource Office on up a significant role as UK Director of Leading the Way. 01952 371300 or email We wish Alan well in this new work. [email protected] With love, prayer, and best wishes in Christ for 2019, www.resource-arm.net SHARING IN, AND SHARING OUT, GOD’S HARVEST As a long-term ARM and ReSource supporter, it was a privilege and delightful surprise to be invited to join the Trustees earlier this year. I believe ReSource is a beautiful gift of God to his Church and I’m thrilled to share in his work of helping churches to grow their ministry and mission in the power of the Holy Spirit. By way of brief introduction. Originating from Bristol, I served in local church ministry for 25 years as curate, Vicar and Rural Dean in London, Milton Keynes, Oxfordshire and Dorset before moving to be Bishop of Brixworth in Bishop John Holbrook Peterborough diocese 7 years ago. Chair of Trustees My particular responsibilities include vocations and curates, education (I’ve led Kevin writes “I am the process of opening two new schools) and chaplaincies. Nationally I serve as the bishop attached to the Life Events (Baptisms, Weddings and Funerals) Team. delighted to welcome the I am married to Elizabeth and we have 2 grown up children. Amongst my Bishop of Brixworth, John hobbies is a life-long, often painful, commitment to Bristol City FC! Holbrook, as Chair of the ReSource Trustees. When we first arrived in Northamptonshire I would tell visitors to our home that the garden used to be a working orchard. I first met +John at this year’s Fellowship of Very quickly I realized that I was wrong. Yes, the garden is only one third of the Parish Evangelism original orchard, but the trees and bushes are still working. We’ve been Conference at Swanwick, embarrassed by the bumper crops of apples, plums, cherries, blackberries and and immediately even grapes. It’s been wonderful to give away the surplus and put boxes of fruit by the front gate with a notice inviting people to help themselves. The orchard recognised that he could is working hard - it’s us who aren’t working to gather in this most wonderful bring to ReSource a harvest. wealth of experience of little, local and ordinary The Church is like a working orchard in which God is very busy and he invites us churches in the Church of to join in. Part of our calling in ReSource is to discern his work and gather the England, and a heart for fruit so that it might in turn be given away. God’s gifts are to be shared, their renewal for mission especially those which help the church to grow. That’s why I’m committed to in the power of the Holy the vision of seeking his harvest in little, local and ordinary churches where God Spirit. often does the most extraordinary things. The discernment process It’s good to be reminded that this is primarily God’s work but that we are called into partnership with him. for John’s appointment as a Trustee was initially Jesus said to his disciples one day, “the harvest is plentiful, but the labourers led by Philip Carver, who are few; pray therefore the Lord of the Harvest to send out labourers into his saw in John a person who harvest”, Matthew 9.37-8. could lead the charity into the future. We were One of the best things about being a bishop is to see the not to know at that point fruit of God’s answer to those prayers, in people saying that Philip’s tenure as “Yes” to that calling. It inspires and encourages me when I interim Chair would end baptize, confirm, ordain or license those whom God has so abruptly with his transformed. On a recent ReSource training retreat in sudden death on 19 June. Cumbria I was deeply moved by the life stories of church members who’d been met by Jesus, embraced by our Father and sent out empowered by the Holy Spirit. Please pray for +John as he takes up the reins at I’m convinced that God is busily at work in the orchard of the Church and in the this important juncture in wider world. I want everyone to enjoy his fruit and his gifts. Please join me in the life of the charity, as praying for the work of ReSource sharing in, and sharing out, that harvest. we build for the future.” +John Holbrook BUILDING, AND BEING-BUILT, FOR THE FUTURE Much of this last year has been spent re-building ReSource and shaping it for a more extensive ministry. It has been an exhilarating and at times exhausting journey. We have clarified our vision, set some developmental goals, moved the charity’s offices, and resourced an increasing number of engagements. It has been good to work with a gifted and committed team of trustees, staff, consultants and volunteers and to benefit from their energy and creativity. And there is a good and godly momentum building, which it has been a delight to be a part of. Some of the fruit of this will be evident as we go through 2019, including a new menu of ReSource work; a new logo, branding and website; the appointment of a team of Associates and Regional Coordinators; some working partnerships with other ministries; and a national roadshow and commissioning Kevin Roberts service. Director of ReSource Perhaps the biggest challenge that I feel in it all is making sure that we are re- Earlier this year the building to God’s design and not just to our own aspirations.
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