2010 August

  • 23/08/2010Welcome to Wesley!

    Welcome to the Wesley Study Centre, Durham.  I am delighted to say that we have twelve new students becoming part of the community here at College and I hope that you are as excited as I am.

    We have a good mix of student deacons [9] and student presbyters [17] training at the WSC.

    The Wesley Study Centre is at the beginning of a new phase having recently celebrated two decades of its work.  I am profoundly grateful to all who have helped to make the Centre the strong and vibrant learning community of disciples that it is.  I look forward to how our lives together will develop under God in fresh and exciting directions.

  • 17/08/2010‘Reshaping the mission of Methodism

    ‘Reshaping the mission of Methodism - a diaconal church approach’

    Deacon Dr. David Clark (Editor)

     Church in the Market Place (Published March 2010)

      

     

    ‘… provocative, persuasive and prophetic…          

    down-to-earth, kingdom-oriented, grass-rooted, strategically-engaged…’ 

      Martyn Atkins (General Secretary of the Methodist Church)

     

    ‘… thought-provoking collection…

    delighted by the emphasis on the ministry of the whole people of God, on communal holiness and on discipleship…

    I commend the vision of a holistic mission to our cities…’

      Bishop Graham Cray (Archbishops’ Missioner and Leader of the Fresh Expressions Team)

     

    Sixteen informative and challenging case-studies of Methodist initiatives in mission including:

     

    • new perspectives on the future of the circuit
    • insights into mission in city-centres, multi-cultural churches, on estates, in rural areas and amongst young people
    • Women’s Network – moving on
    • innovative developments within Action for Children and Methodist Homes for the Aged
    • Methodism’s engagement with the world of work
    • Methodism as ‘a virtual church’
    • Methodism as a learning community
    • the Methodist Diaconal Order – its future contribution
    • the Anglican-Methodist Covenant – next steps