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Welcome

Together in Mission exists to work with the denominations, networks and local churches to encourage the planting of missional communities.

In fulfilling this purpose, we focus on:

  • Church planting
  • Transitioning local congregations and denominations towards mission
  • Leadership development
  • Encouraging the emerging church

We work in this way:

Gathering: Partnerships and conversations are important as we try and understand together how God is shaping us into a church which can be more effective in mission. Our national director  Martin Robinson has written several books on mission in the western context. He and others reflect on the conversation in  Cafe Vista. 

Learning: We provide training in mission at several levels. 

Travelling: As churches become increasingly mission focused  we commit to walk with them, helping with research and consultancy.

This video was filmed at Summer School, and describes our Missional Leadership course. Our primary focus at Summer School is to resource our students. However we do take the opportunity to interact with the church more broadly. Alan Hirsch was at Summer School in 2008, leading a Masterclass for senior students and the wider mission-minded community.

New developments

Gathering Reading a Community. Martin spoke at a Reaching the Unchurched Network day conference on this topic in October 2008.  We recorded his introduction, which both sets the scene for mission and suggests some of the principles of a response. Scroll down the Stories and Reflections page to pick up the podcasts.
                        

TiM Council at Lambeth was our last major gathering, on the 3rd December. Bishop Graham Cray was our host at this event, which provided an opportunity for council to hear Bishop Graham’s early reflections on Fresh Expressions, as he anticipates his lead role in May 2009. Some of his thoughts are reported here, in Cafe Vista.
Learning
  

Missional Leadership Course:  We have revised the curriculum for the Missional Leadership course, which we have been developing with Allelon.  The two new modules are Forming Missional Communities and Engaging the Local, a module about reading a community, developing listening and discipleship within a local context. Follow this link for the details. 

A Church Shaped for Mission is a course, a series of six seminars, organised by Together in Mission and Birmingham Mission Network. Martin Robinson will be leading the conversation across the city, and anyone with a concern for mission in this area of the Midlands is invited to participate. The topics range from Forming People, to Mission Shaped Groups to Reading a Community. The leaflet can be downloaded from here.

 
travelling2.jpg Partnership for Missional Church: This process has been developed to enable congregations to place mission at the heart of church life. It is now ready to pilot, so please click here for more information, and contact us for a conversation.                           

Stories and Reflections is a new page to hear about some experiments in mission. Our first theme is Changing the Conversation, creative ways to get round the “stuckness” of post-Christendom, challenging a few assumptions in the process. Of course, the first set of assumptions are our own…