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Oh My Dog!
Published: 10th Apr 2013
“UP UNTIL May 2011 I had no belief in God at all. I only went to church for occasional weddings, funerals and midnight mass to sing Christmas carols.
But everything changed in May, when I took my dog, Gemma, out on our usual walk. We were crossing a wooden bridge which had happened every day for 18 months, Gemma was pottering along behind me as she always did. I distinctly heard a...
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Ready, Steady, GO!
Published: 10th Dec 2012
IN APRIL, July and December 2012, women from all around the country, different ages, different backgrounds, met together in Coventry, Sheffield, London and Northampton. Why? What do these women have in common?
Accelerate is a new venture of the Jesus Fellowship, aimed at training and empowering women. There are no ‘entry requirements’ (apart from being female!) The days...
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Breaking the bounds
Published: 23rd Sep 2012
WE LIVE IN days of great social upheaval. The late 1100s were much the same. There was a great migration away from rural life and into the towns, where a new “middle class” of merchants and craftsmen evolved. Also, the Crusades had led thousands of men to their death, leaving an imbalance of women.
The Church was not well placed to cope with this new climate. For centuries,...
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Women with a warcry!
Published: 16th Jun 2011
“THE QUESTION in most churches which are at all earnest in their work is how to reach the masses.”
This isn’t some present-day church growth article; it comes from an English newspaper, The Northern Daily Express and was written in March 1879, as part of a report on early Salvation Army meetings in Gateshead in the Northeast of England.
The audience at these...
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