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Sharing faith
The Bible Reading Fellowship has for many years provided useful materials to help people explore their own faith. The BRF has developed new materials to help Christians share their faith with friends. BRF, 15 The Chambers, Vineyard, Abingdon, OX14 3FE www.brfonline.org.uk
How do you best share your faith? What are the dos and don’ts? Can you evangelize whilst staying in dialogue? How does the truth that is in Jesus relate to other forms of truth? www.face2faith.co.uk is a well constructed, easy-to-use website from the Diocese of Chichester.
Lost for Words is a course aimed at helping you to share your faith in Christ in a natural way that you will be comfortable with. Information about the course can be found – for example - at: www.portsmouth.anglican.org/what_we_do/mission_communications/evangelism/available_courses/lost_for_words/ or from the publishers at: www.cpas.org.uk/shop/category/13/view/30
For more than 10 years, Emmaus has been used by God as a powerful instrument to bring adults to faith, to nurture new Christians and inspire life-long discipleship. Thousands of people have grown in their Christian faith as a result. Find this at: www.e-mmaus.org.uk/
There are a range of resources, ideas and useful contacts or links that have a specifically rural emphasis on the Centre for Rural Mission website: http://ruralmissions.org.uk/
Supporting Christians at Work from Hereford Diocese is a helpful 16-page workbook divided into 4 sessions, ideal for small group use. Find this at: www.hereford.anglican.org/Content/Documents/Supporting%20Christians%20at%20Work.pdf
“Christians at Work” (at:
www.christiansatwork.org.uk) is an organisation with a strong
web-presence, and very wide range of resources – both to purchase and for
free download – related to the whole area of “Work & Faith”.
All their
resources can be found through links at:
www.christiansatwork.org.uk/cgi-bin/caw.cgi?usr=0&page=resources
(Of particular interest may be the Bible Studies, which can be obtained
from the link above.)
The Industrial Mission Association (IMA) (at: www.industrialmission.org.uk) is the established network of lay people and clergy working at the interface between faith and work.
Faith in Action, from the Diocese of Derby Council for Social responsibility (2008), gives the rationale, background and examples from churches in Derbyshire as a Guide to Community Mission. All can be downloaded, and a CD-ROM ordered, from the project pages at: www.faithinderbyshire.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=45&Itemid=61
About Our Father’s Business – a Faith and Work Resources Toolkit
has been
produced by St. Peter’s Saltley Trust & the Churches’ Industrial Group,
Birmingham (CIGB). It is a 42-page resource and workbook, and can be
downloaded at:
www.saltleytrust.org.uk/pub/Faith%20and%20Work%20Resources%20-%20Formatted%20Bookfold%201.doc
Foundations 21 is a free web-based discipleship course, ideal for new and experienced Christians wanting to share their faith with others as well as deepen their own spiritual life. There are a multitude of resources, approaches and learning styles. Find this at: www.Foundations21.org.uk
Now a Christian is free email-based course (over 5 weeks) for new Christians from the Church Army. It can be found at: www.nowachristian.org
