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• 1,400 church leaders working togetherto renew, strengthen and plant churches

• 11 Network Groups in the UK in 62 local areas• There are 975 churches in the network.

OverseasSummer Conferences:UKSwedenIrelandJerseyGuernseyNetherlandsNew Zealand Finland

Other New Wine Conferences:WalesScotlandAustraliaSouth Africa Countries with which New Wine has a ‘faith sharing’ relationship:India Romania Brazil

Retreat to Advance: Elveden ForestEquipping 18-30s for radical Kingdom living

Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 19:00 to Sun, 12 Jan 2014 13:00Venue: Elveden Forest Center Parcs

Speakers: Danielle Strickland, Karl Martin & Pete Hughes

For women of all ages

Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 09:00 to 16:00Venue: Lighthouse, Poole

Speakers: Arianna Walker & Anne Coles

Lessons ‘New Wine’ has been learning

• Spiritual vitality and a missional heart are inseparably linked

• Encourage ‘strategic leadership’ in local Churches• It’s about the Body!• Evangelism and Social Action go hand-in-hand• Authenticity is more important than size or form• Healthy connectedness releases life• Stay open to God’s whispers and recklessly

experiment

‘God is Sovereign! The Holy Spirit doesn’t appear to have read the rubrics…’

Bishop John V Taylor

Holy Spirit

Breaks through stale, ghetto thinking and releases creative, Holy Imagination

“Live openly and expansively!”(2 Corinthians 6: 11 – 12)

(MSG)

Eyes of Faith

Caleb“We should go up and take possession of the land, for we can certainly do it.”

(Numbers 13: 30)

New Wine

• Of the ‘lessons that New Wine has been learning’ identified in the presentation, which most caught your interest? Are there perhaps 2 of these lessons which the Diocesan Synod might want to ask parishes to give particular attention?

• Given the diversity of ecclesiology across our Diocese, in what ways might partnering with the New Wine Networks be another source for releasing fresh ‘missional’ life and initiatives?

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