Mission Shed
Mission Sheds are back!
Mission Sheds are gatherings that help share resources, good practice, good news, and good ideas among churches and individuals. hey Designed to help us go further and deeper with particular topics of mission. Topics include: worship, growing faith, evangelism, rural mission, social transformation, intention (mission action planning), multiplication, and pioneering and fresh expressions. The Mission Shed Curriculum will run over a two-year period and will include 8 gatherings across all four archdeaconries. Each Mission Shed event will also contribute to a pathway for training for those who feel a calling toward becoming a ‘leader of mission’ in their church, mission community or deanery.
The Mission Shed vision is to:
- To share good practice among individuals and mission communities on priority areas of mission.
- To provide high-quality mission resources to support the mission of our parish churches and church schools.
- To encourage innovation in mission that leads to new and growth of existing worshipping communities.
- To provide a learning community where ‘leaders of mission’ (lay and ordained) are assisted, enouraged and supported in their missional leadership.
- Enable intentional learning together (Missional learning communities) – prayer, church planting, discipleship, evangelism etc.
- Mission shaped Initiation – encourage calling out of individuals and potential teams
- Mission shaped ministry – training or lay leaders and teams
- Mentoring / Coaching for teams and leaderAccompany – ‘
- travel’ alongside and with others seeking to develop and grow
- To deliver a curriculum of learning (and support) that will help support equip and assist with the training of Lay Missioners.
- To provide a regular opportunity to discuss and share ideas for mission through a variety of topics, and in different parts of the diocese, for anyone who wants to come.
- To inspire mission communities and church schools to think more intentionally and collaboratively toward mission, community engagement and evangelism.
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Upcoming Events
Mission Shed – Evangelism
Speakers
We welcome the Revd Canon Chris Russell, Advisor to the Archbishop of Canterbury on Evangelism & Witness. Chris Russell’s most recent book ‘Yearning for the fast and endless sea’ makes a timely and inspiring case for Christian evangelism, with an impassioned invitation to the church to be inspired by the Good News itself, and find joy in challenging times to share the Gospel.
Chris is joined by Revd Dr Ben Aldous, Principal Officer for Evangelism and Mission at Churches Together in England. Ben will be speaking to us about ‘Slow Mission’. Ben is author of ‘The God who Walks Slowly’, drawing on the theology of Kosuke Koyama, encouraging an approach to mission which truly reflects the rhythm, pace, vision and surrender of Christ.
And we are delighted to be welcoming Heidi Lewis, Church Army Evangelist and Youth Leader in Dartmouth and Dittisham Mission Community, who’ll be sharing her experiences of being an evangelist.
Revd Jeremy Putnam, Diocesan Mission Enabler will also be sharing news about the launch of new commissioned roles within the diocese, that seek to honour those that have a sense of calling toward evangelism and mission in their Mission Communities. He’ll also be revisiting the Come and See faith sharing campaign from 2023, and will talk about the resources for autumn and winter 2024/5.
Tim Moyler will be providing a taster session of the fantastic Living & Telling course. https://www.agape.org.uk/living-and-telling/
Living & Telling is a training resource designed to encourage and inspire you to help people discover Jesus together.
It is now available to run with your group online, this 10-part, video-led training series is for churches and groups who want to learn how to get better at discussing faith naturally in conversation and throughout everyday life – and best of all, it’s FREE!
Living & Telling is a fantastic resource if you are a Christian, and find yourself reticent to talk about your faith (or even if you are ready and raring to go). o this course is suitable for everyone.
Booking is free.
Mission Shed – Pioneering (15th February) | Exeter
Jesus the Pioneer of Pioneers
Come and look at Jesus through a fresh set of lenses: Jesus is ‘the pioneer and perfector of our faith’ (Hebrews 12:2). What does that mean for us as we seek to reach a wider range of people in our parishes with the gospel? A morning of discussion on how to start stuff in the flow of the Holy Spirit and in partnership with the local community, finding out what God is doing in your neighbourhood and joining in. Learn how the church can be guest and host at the same time and open space for faith conversations to arise naturally. Our main speaker in the morning is the Revd Tina Hodget. Tina is a pioneer, teacher, speaker and leader with a reputation for inspiring hope and drawing whole congregations into a kind of mission ‘with a twinkle in its eye’. She learned to recognise and appreciate different cultures studying German and Russian in-country, and after an early career in secondary education now leads the CMS Southwest Hub which trains lay people in the postures and practices of pioneer mission through creativity and play. Tina was a parish priest in Portishead, planing small new congregations there; she is co-author of the Pioneer Spectrum and birthed the Pioneer Project in the Diocese of Bath and Wells. She is one of the creators of Pioneering Parishes – a small start-up training organisation funded by the Church of England for church leaders wanting to learn how to shift the energy of the local church outwards in order to invite a wider range of people into the life of the kingdom of God.
Past events
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February 2024 – Whole Church Worship Sara and Sam Hargreaves from Engage Worship explain the concept of Whole Church Worship and offer encouragement to ‘find what you already have in your church, even if it is just you!” They were speaking to Diocese of Exeter Communications Director, Chloe Axford, at the Mission Shed gathering on worship. Find out more here: https://engageworship.org/ and https://exeter.anglican.org/resources…Mission Shed Newsletter – Feb 2024 Includes many of the resources shared at the Mission Shed event held in Abbotsbury Church. Click here to download. |
| April 2019 – Mission Shed Central Mission Shed Central at St Andrew’s Church, Cullompton. |
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| October 2016 – Mission Shed West Devon This video shares the original intention and vision behind Mission Sheds. The vision still remains today. |
