Growing Disciples - a new initiative

Welcome to the Congregational Federation's Growing Disciples initiative. This programme, funded by the Council for World Mission's 'mission support programme', will involve the creation of a brand new 'discipleship course', which will be available to and promoted within local churches of the Congregational Federation. The aim is to launch this new course in May 2010, so we are only in the early stages of consultation and research - to explore what will be the most helpful kind of resource for churches. I am in post for two years to help make this happen - so I'm currently talking to people from other denominations who have launched other local courses, and to people in the Federation, to get a sense of people's dreams and visions, and how we might respond ... So please pray for this new venture. And soon I'll be inviting your comments and asking for your thoughts in relation to specific issues - so thank you for your interest, and hopefully we can create a worthwhile course, which will aid our churches in their discipleship and mission, and which will enable some people to go on further in their training, to Level 1 and/or 2 of the CF's Integrated Training Course. So watch this space for more information - and for some questions. And let's grow together ...!