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New Adventures: FP Impact in Northumberland

Next week I start FP (Frontiers Project) Impact at County Church Northumberland. For those who don’t know FP is a opportunity run by Newfrontiers to give yourself to work for a church for a typical student year. As well as getting experience in a church environment by taking on projects you get theological training and undertake mission both in the UK and overseas. As far as I know, no one has yet began to document their experience of FP in the blog medium, I might be the first..

My aim is to give some helpful insight to other young people what it is like, the fun, the challenges and the learning with a view to inspire some of those reading to consider doing FP themselves. I would be keen to know what questions you have as I’m entering this new phase and I’ll try and answer them as I blog along. If you have a question please leave it in the comments below.
At some stage I want to invite a few voices that I respect to write some guest posts. I find that blogging aids learning so it would be wonderful to publish some gospel gunner’s  living lessons. Check back for more updates.

webechurch on Twitter?

So has this blog has succumbed to the twitter hype? Has the self professed web enthusiast finally started using a twitter account?

You might be surprised to know I’m not a mega fan of status updates and prefer only my close friends to know what I’m up to. The web has created a world were acquaintance is forced to be friendship and I’m reticent to totally accept that. There is only so many people I can manage to have a real friendship with and I’m not being difficult. I’m being realistic.

Twitter does come in handy though, it is an excellent way of letting people know what has been published on my blog. In fact this might just be the first update… though I won’t be telling you when I brush my teeth.

So if your a twitter users why don’t you follow webechurch?

Blog Contribution Example: Shoes for the Homeless

Shoes

Originally uploaded by chix0rgirl

I thought I would give an example of the kind of content you might want to contribute to this blog over on the contribute page.

I came across this photo on photo sharing site Flickr. You too can contribute photos by tagging your photos with “webechurch” this blog will detect them for perusal and possible republish.

1. It’s a great insight into Church life, honest and real “I helped clean up the shoes and socks later on; some were really wet and sweaty. Ew!”

2. It has a global appeal which people enjoy, “ooo so that’s what they are up to in San Antonio these days!”

3. And finally and most importantly it’s all about how Jesus is prompting people to do great things for Him. Awesome!

You might have been on a missions trip, set up a prayer room, started an alpha course, been to a sweet gig, or seen something totally rocking with it’s origin in God that you just want people to know how amazing he is then let me know and it could get republished.

There are so many blogs to read, why should I read this one?

Lets be realistic about blogging. Most blogs, even so called Christian blogs, are navel gazing, rant and grumble outlets. The blog format can be addictive the consequences being people begin to hide within them selves more and more. It’s a bit like heroine, once your hooked you have to be weened off it. It’s an echo chamber of content and can make stupid ideas and theology end up in tacky paperback books. Blogs are a way of getting ideas out there and so you really have to be careful what you take in. Blogging is really dangerous!

But it’s also a legitimate and relevant way of getting the Gospel out globally, encouraging people to make decisions to invite Jesus in to their lives and to encourage people to live passionately for Him world wide.

Habakkuk 2:14

I’m convinced that if Martin Luther and Charles Spurgeon were alive today they would have a blogs. It’s a fantastic way of sparking conversations with those who don’t know Jesus yet. That’s the aim of this blog to really get into the meat of God’s truth and to share it. I think Habakkuk 2:14 puts it really well.

For the earth will be filled
with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD
as the waters cover the sea.

Habakkuk 2:14

That’s what we as Christians should be living for, to see the earth absolutely flooded with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD. GOD is so AWESOME!

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