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May 28th, 2007Welcome to the Anglican Cell UK blog.
There will be new posts on this blog fairly frequently so keep an eye on it - or add the site to your newsreader.
It would be great to start off by finding out who’s visiting the site and what you’d like to get from it. So here’s an invitation to click on “comments” below and introduce yourself.
And in true “cell” icebreaker style tell us the name of a good book you read recently!
May 29th, 2007 at 7:13 am
To get the ball rolling…
Hi, I’m Richard. I help to coordinate this network as part of my work with CMS missional communities and I also “pastor” the Dream network. I’m really looking forward to the journey this network could take in seeing increasingly creative and contextual forms of cell.
Best recent book was “The Starfish and the Spider”. A secular book about decentralised leadership which rang lots of bells for me.
May 29th, 2007 at 6:00 pm
Hi Richard and fellow cell bloggers
It’s good to see the new website.
I found that the recent training day in Bradford confirmed for me once again my commitment to cell as the way I want to do church in my “day job” as vicar of Bredbury.
A good book that I read while on Sabbatical recently was “The shaping of things to come” by Frost & Hirsch. The challenge to do church outside the box is very compelling. We are doing things on the margins at present, but we need to be more adventurous in reaching out and nurturing church out there rather than expecting people to come to us.
May 30th, 2007 at 1:17 pm
What a brilliant site. There is a swelling tide in greater europe, birthing missional communities. Exciting stuff!
I would also strongly recommend Alan Hirsch’s latest book “The Forgotten Ways”. I have just finished it and will probably read it again straight away!
May 30th, 2007 at 2:23 pm
great looking site. glad its up.
June 4th, 2007 at 3:50 pm
Hi all,
Looking forward to this site developing and sharing the issues that are peculiar to Anglican Cell Church. I have been the vicar of St. Winfrid’s Church in Totton for nearly three years, the church has been transistioning to cell since 1997. It was the featured in the booklet ‘Soft Cell’ an Encounters on the Edge by George Lings. I hope to read and comment on the other article!!
Good book, the Kevin Anderson series Saga of the Seven Suns I read books 1-5 without putting them down and suffered severe withdrawal symptons when stopped. I wish he would hurry up and write the sixth …. maybe i’d better check and see how those cells (called life groups with us) are doing.
Mark
June 10th, 2007 at 9:13 pm
Interesting website. I look forward to seeing how it develops.
June 12th, 2007 at 5:08 pm
Hi everyone,
I’m a bit of a rookie in the missional cell world, and I’m really pleased this site is up and running because I need people to talk to! As a pioneer minister, over the past year I’ve established a missional cell for Bootle (Liverpool) - a more un-middle class context would be difficult to find - so if anyone out there has experience of doing cell church or missional cell in a similar context, please let me know. (Andrew Attwood, expect a call soon!)
Good book? A New Kind of Christian by Brian Maclaren - a bit more accessible and more easily applicable than lectures on post-modernism at theological college…
July 6th, 2007 at 11:16 am
I’m a bloggin’ virgin, at least I am until I press submit. Its great to see this network running I’m at St. Luke’s Hedge End near Southampton we’ve been in cells for about 6 years and wouldn’t have it any other way.
The best book I’ve ever read Louis de Bernier’s Bird’s without wings, its not Christian, except its about love and relationships and hope and future and all those other God things!
October 16th, 2007 at 7:06 pm
hello I am entirely new to this and live in Canada I have been desperately trying to locate some Christians who were absolutely important to me and my Christian journey in my youth in Ellesmere port. they were from Bootle anglican
Please please does anyone know Ken Ellis? Harry and Joyce Roberts or any of their family? Harry and Joyce and Ken would now be in their 70’s and Joyce’s children Jennifer, Geoffrey and David in their 50’s
A great book is Simply Christian by A N Wright
Evelyn Jain
Calgary