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Many people, both leaders and members of congregations tell us that there are more opportunities to talk to those outside of the church than ever before. The pandemic has at least been a blessing in bringing us into contact with many people that we would not normally speak to…

This week, the Bishop of Blackburn, the Rt Revd Philip North, wrote a wonderful article on lessons from the pandemic in the Church Times. Obviously writing from an Anglican perspective he nevertheless makes some amazing statements…

On the final page of this week’s Connection we feature Yvonne Attry. What we don’t say is that Yvonne’s parents came to the UK in 1957. Ezekiel and Adeline Attry were then a young married couple who came to find work. They also came as Christians…

Many of us are facing some difficult choices this month with regard to church. To open or not to open. As David Marsh at Centre Point in West Bromwich put it, “It’s a choice between clicks or bricks”. For many it will be a mixture …

The BBC recently carried an extensive feature on some research that has tried to analyse the voice of Twitter over the period of the pandemic. That sounds like a difficult task…

In one sense, those in Christian ministry never retire. However, we can leave one area of ministry and pick up a different ministry. After 18 years working with the college in one form or another, I feel it is right to hand on…

A few days ago, just over 30 leaders with responsibility for church planting in their network, organisation or denomination, met for a Zoom based conference to share..

A few weeks ago, we mentioned the organisation Greater Europe Mission (GEM) – see issue 9. In recent years GEM have revised their strategy for Europe. They are now focussing their resources for…

The World Service of the BBC recently reported on a remarkable project in the city of Philadelphia, USA. The project is called P.A.R which stands for People Advancing Re-integration. Not a very snappy name but an amazing enterprise…

We have new web site!
It ought to be possible to locate the new FCC web site easily using Google or another similar search engine. However, if you need to use an actual address the one to use is…