Tuesday 20 August 2013

FROM ACts 435 : Launch of "Little Acts go a Long Way" campaign

 
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 9:56 AM
Subject: Launch of "Little Acts go a Long Way" campaign

We are pleased to announce today the launch of our social media campaign "Little Acts go a Long Way".  This will primarily be run through Facebook where we hope to encourage lively, productive conversation on this topic over the next couple of months.  We plan to feature some guest blogs and also invite everyone to share their personal experiences of how little acts have gone a long way.  We will utilise Twitter to feed into the campaign, inviting people to use the #littleacts hashtag as their reference.

 

We want to thank a donor who completed our survey a few months ago for the suggestion that has formed the basis for this campaign (since survey responses were anonymous we can only thank him or her generally in this way). 

 

The campaign is being run from our Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/acts435 and we are on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/acts435

 

Now for those for whom social media is a mystery or completely unappealing: before your eyes glaze over, please think whether there might be someone you know who is active on social media and might like to engage with our campaign and help spread the word – your children, friends, cousins, neighbours, colleagues, etc.

 

Whilst we hope to generate more donors to Acts 435 as part of this campaign, our primary aim is to improve our social media presence and contribute useful, interesting, relevant, fun content which adds value on this subject of how little acts go a long way.  If we appreciated what a difference they can make, perhaps many more people would do many more little acts to make the world a better place. 

 

We are very grateful for any input you can provide (comments, links to relevant information, photos, etc. and sharing the page with your friends) and will update you on how our campaign unfolds in due course.

 

With very best wishes

 

Jenny Herrera

 

Executive Director

Acts 435

 

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Jesus in the City / Campolo and Curry

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From: "Paul Keeble" <paul@urbanpresence.org.uk>
To: <info@jitc2013.co.uk>
Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2013 7:19 PM
Subject: Jesus in the City / Campolo and Curry


Hi

'Making Sense of the Fragments, the 'Jesus in the City' UK urban mission
congress 2013 is now just a few weeks away. Tickets are still available for
the congress and for 'Campolo & Curry' on the Saturday evening and 'Question
Time' on Friday. We would appreciate it if you could include the event in
your church notices for the next few Sundays. All necessary information is
on the attached leaflets and Powerpoint slides, but if you want to find out
more, the website is www.jitc2013.co.uk

Any queries, please get back to me.

Thanks.




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> URBAN PRESENCE
> resourcing good news in the city
> UK Registered Charity 1069404
> Web: www.urbanpresence.org.uk
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> Making Sense of the Fragments
> Jesus in the City, Manchester
> 6-8 September 2013
> www.jitc2013.co.uk
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Friday 16 August 2013

"Digest" of discussion about Food banks..


With further reponses from people in the CUF Together JV network I have updated the "Digest" of discussion about Food banks.. policy and practice..
You can download the document from my dropbox here
 
 
 
I've also included a selection of web links to key articles and policy discussions
 
 
The powerpoint opening up these issues I presented in the Spring at our Birmingham gathering is available here
 
 
Shalom

Greg Smith

Development Co-ordinator Together Lancashire / Preston Christian Action Network

Harvest Resources from Church Urban Fund

 
 
 


Harvest Resources

Church Urban Fund resources for Harvest are available on our website from 15th August.

Whether you are a rural parish, with the fruits of the earth all around you, or in the city or suburbs, for all of us it can be a time to reflect on the food we receive as gifts of God.

Please spread the word and encourage churches to support our work this Harvest.

Harvest resources page »    http://www.cuf.org.uk/harvest?dm_i=5DF,1RPLA,69GHUC,6B6BH,1

Thursday 15 August 2013

Fw: On God's Side: Livestream with Jim Wallis examining "the Common Good" - 3 September

 
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Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 4:51 PM
Subject: On God's Side: Livestream with Jim Wallis examining "the Common Good" - 3 September

Watch Jim Wallis live online on 3 September as he explores "the Common Good". Register now!
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Join New York Times best-selling author Jim Wallis, founder of Sojourners, on 3 September as he encourages us on how we might reclaim the ancient and compelling vision of the common good.

Watch live video from this special event where Jim will explore 
"The Common Good" - a vision not just of looking after ourselves and our nearest and dearest, but of really understanding that we are our neighbours' keeper.

The foundation is Jesus' call to love our neighbour as ourselves. What does it mean not just to care about our own family's interests, but to care about other people's interests as much as our own. That's the common good. That's the standard. Seeking the common good isn't always easy, and sometimes it's not even clear how to practically live it out - but we need to have that discussion, that debate, that civil discourse about what the common good really might be. No matter what our politics; Left, Right, Centre or something else - what's right and what works is more and important than what's Left and what's Right.
Tuesday 3 September, 6:30pm-8:30pm (GMT+1)
Hosted by LICC at 
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A nominal fee is charged to bring you an ad-free stream

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Thursday 8 August 2013

Conference : Ministering on a Housing Estate is not easy but it's wonderful!

 

NATIONAL ESTATE CHURCHES NETWORK

a network for all Christians interested in Housing Estate Ministry

Tickets from Eventbrite here

http://necn13manchester-eanreclcomp.eventbrite.co.uk/?ref=eanrec&utm_source=eb_email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=attnews&utm_term=attlink

"IF THIS IS MISSION, WHAT IS MINISTRY?"

Annual Conference

Ministering on a Housing Estate is not easy but it's wonderful!

It calls for special gifts and new ways in. 

And it's certainly not just a clergy affair!

What might every member indigenous ministry look like in our estates?

  

24th October

Coverdale Baptist Church Manchester

Come and hear David Heywood author of 'Resourcing Ministry' and others who are developing new approaches to ministry on Estates.

Monday 5 August 2013

Make lunch for kids during the school holidays

Free school meals make a huge difference to almost 2 million children in the UK but when schools are closed so are the kitchens ...at Lunch we encourage church and community groups to help us bridge the holiday hunger gap.
 
 
Make Lunch is a franchise type scheme which churches can buy into.
Through the Cinnamon Network there are likely in the near future to be grants for the start up funding for this scheme..