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NETWORK is the Local Evangelical Fellowship of the Evangelical Alliance in Greater Manchester (LEF).
Network seeks to seek to contribute to the uniting of the Church in its call to mission both within Greater Manchester and beyond. We aim to:
- Provide credible witness in the media
- Assist to bring the good news of the gospel in the communities,
- Build relationships with those in authority
- Network those involved in mission and social action in order to create cohesion.
- Facilitate joint prayer
Aiming to serve aspects of the Church’s mission, we want to see Greater Manchester impacted with the Good News of Jesus Christ, and believe this can happen more effectively if Churches, Christians and Christian organisations work together in communication, coordination and cooperation.
As we serve alongside one another we partake in, what the EA so poignantly calls, a Movement for Change.
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Manchester Bible School provides Bible Study and practical courses in a context of fellowship. No academic qualifications required - just a desire to learn.
Details of Manchester Bible School's new term of lectures is now available. See the page on the left for full details and contact them for a brochure.
3 courses start on 22 September for 5 weeks, and another 3 courses on 10 November for 5 weeks. The fees are for £15 for 5 week course or £30 for 10 week course waged and £7.50 for 5 week course or £15 for 10 week course unwaged.
During the autumn term 2008 the Manchester Bible School wil offer the following topics
Gospel Scheme Ministry – Samuel Arthur
The Great Cloud of Witnesses - Tony Wilson
Paul’s Letter to the Galatians- John Owen
Being Sure– Arthur Williams
Adult Christianity or ‘The Journey of Ascent and Descent’-David Hughes
Our World: By Chance or Design - Henk Alting
Special lectures...
27-30 October 7.30 pm - Didsbury Lectures: Holiness and Community in Paul (Lecturer: Dr Kent E Brower)
3 November 7.30 pm - Christians & Science (Lecturer: Daryl Falks)
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The Media Seminar in which we reflected on what the future Media City means for Greater Manchester and the north of the UK on 19th June was attended by Christian artists, media makers, and Christian leaders in this city region and other cities in the North West.
Contributions from Michael Wakelin, BBC Head of Religion and Ethics; and Andrew Graystone, Director, Churches' Media Council combined with round the table discussion and Q and A.
We will keep you updated on the follow up to this particular seminar (media@network-ea.org.uk).
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 The inspiring new book Micah’s Challenge: The Church’s Responsibility to the Global Poor endorsed by Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg is now available.
Joel Edwards, Tony Campolo, René Padilla and the Most Revd Njongonkulu Ndungane are just some of the theologians and activists from around the world that have contributed to the book. Micah’s Challenge not only offers a passionate, biblical, and challenging call to Christians to think afresh and act decisively as individuals and as Christian communities, but speaks more broadly to a world that is earnestly seeking solutions to the grave problem of poverty.
In his foreword, Gordon Brown warmly welcomes the book and reflects on the role played by the Christian faith in working towards a more just world, “Micah Challenge is harnessing that faith to unite Christians globally from across church denominations to deepen that commitment to people living in poverty through prayer, service and advocacy. You are already making a huge difference.”
Micah Challenge is a global movement of people in 40 nations who want to take up the challenge laid down by the Old Testament prophet, Micah, and speak out against the injustice of global poverty. As Jim Wallis, author of God’s Politics, writes in his chapter, down the years the Christian faith has been a powerful force behind social movements: “The network of faith communities, non-governmental organisations, celebrities, and millions of people around the world has brought a moral spotlight to the unsustainable indebtedness and the systemic poverty of the world’s poorest countries.” In his foreword, the UK Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, calls for a similar global coalition to “galvanise the action” required to respond to what he describes as “a development emergency”.
Drawing together a wide range of prophetic voices to explore the theological, ethical and practical dimensions of Micah's challenge the book offers a variety of perspectives on our global responsibility to the poor amongst us. The heart of the book is an exploration of 'acting justly', 'walking humbly', and 'loving mercy'. Following an introduction on the history and vision of Micah Challenge, the chapters move from biblical and theological reflections on issues of poverty, through more practical explorations of social ethics, to a corporate and personal call, which asks the question, ‘What are we doing about all this?’
Dr John Sentamu, Archbishop of York, commends the book, saying, “Micah’s Challenge calls us as Christians to live out the kingdom values evident in our faith, to set free those captive to poverty, to release those bound by economic injustice, and to proclaim the abundance of God’s creation for the two-thirds of our world”.
Make sure you get a copy… order online at www.authenticmedia.co.uk , or call 0870 420 8188, or at Wesley Owen bookstores or www.wesleyowen.com : Micah's Challenge - editors Marijke Hoek and Justin Thacker – published April 2008 by Paternoster. CODE/ISBN: 9781842276068.
For more information about the book visit the Authentic Media website.
For more information about the Micah Challenge visit their website: www.micahchallenge.org.uk - core members working within Micah Challenge UK include: African and Caribbean Evangelical Alliance (ACEA), Alpha International / Holy Trinity Brompton, BMS World Mission, Christian Aid, Christian Medical Fellowship, Christian Today, Evangelical Alliance, Faithworks, Global Connections, New Frontiers, Oasis, Shaftesbury Society, SPEAK, Tearfund, World Vision UK.
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Joel Edwards, General Director of the Evangelical Alliance, is initiating a conversation addressing evangelicals in contemporary culture around the role for evangelicals in society today and into the future.
In his book 'Agenda for Change' Joel argues that Biblical witness is not called to tip-toe through the 21st century, but to transform society by presenting Christ credibly to the culture. He sets out a new vision for evangelicalism reclaiming the idea that evangelicals are a ‘good news’ people called to a long term vision for spiritual and social change.
Based on the exciting new book by Joel, also called An Agenda for Change, he aims to start a conversation that will continue to transform the Church in the UK and beyond.
See www.anagendaforchange.com
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ChurchMCR.com enables the Church in Greater Manchester to communicate, share resources and collaborate across congregations and denominations, creating a more effective, innovative and relational Body of Christ.
ChurchMCR.com exists to help people and organisations...
* DISCOVER one another.
* SHARE their ideas, information, opinions and resources.
* COLLABORATE together on existing projects or pioneer original ideas.
ChurchMCR.com is a...
* social network, allowing people to communicate with their friends,
discover new friends and become supporters of organisations.
* calendar of events happening around Greater Manchester. The events
are added to the calendar directly by yourself!
See www.churchMCR.com
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The Micah Challenge is an international Christian response to the glaring injustice of global poverty. In the UK, it seeks to build on the momentum created by the MakePovertyHistory campaign to continue to press the UK government to do more to alleviate poverty and deal with its causes. Rather being a single short-term campaign, Micah Challenge is more of a movement, aimed at providing Christians with a deeper understanding of God's heart for the poor and with a vehicle to respond to poverty and its injustice.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown, in the UN speech on 31 July, held governments to account for the lack of progress on the promises to the poor and urged world leaders to play their parts to fulfil the MDGs by 2015.
What can you do?
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Sign up to respond to the Micah Call
Be inspired and challenged by watching the Micah Challenge DVD;
Micah course 'Just People' for your homegroup, cell, circle of friends or midweek meeting.
See www.micahchallenge.org.uk.
www.micahchallenge.org.uk
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 LICC Manchester came into being in May 2005 and exists to enable the delivery of LICC’s vision to ‘contribute to the transformation of the UK by making whole-life discipleship an unavoidable, central, operationally active component of the culture of the leaders and people of the Church’, through working together in the NWest, beginning in Manchester.
The key question facing many churches today is: How can we make disciples who are learning to live well for Christ in today’s new culture and engage compellingly with the people they meet?
The answer lies in recovering a way of seeing. Seeing afresh the comprehensive scope of God’s interest in us, and His purposes in His world. Seeing afresh the kind of life Christ intends for His followers. It lies in recovering an apprentice culture in our churches that helps us learn and grow together in ways that connect to today’s world.
LICC’s ‘Imagine’ project is an innovative initiative that aims to revitalise whole-life disciple-making for 21st century UK. Its vision is to recover the central task of whole-life disciple-making in our church communities.
2008 promises to be an exciting year for LICC Manchester as, together with Network, we look to encourage a community of ‘Imagine’ churches to develop.
For events taking place, see
See www.churchMCR.com
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