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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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Forum for Change concerns the long-term transformational work of the church, aiming to facilitate discussion between Christian professionals in the cultural drivers about how we offer an alternative worldview and seek the wellbeing of society.
We have launched a regular email called 'Culture Footprint', featuring disciples in Arts, Media, Business, Education, Politics and other professions who bring the presence of Jesus in the culture. This is a colourful collection of artisans, entrepreneurs, media makers, teachers, actors, singer/songwriters, and politicians, seeking the wellbeing of society – one footprint at a time.
To subscribe >> www.eauk.org/forumforchange/culture-footprint.cfm
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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.”
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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.
2009 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 www.churchMCR.com
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