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.

Gerard Kelly at Masterclass 2009. This runs alongside Summer School, this year on Saturday 18th July. Gerard Kelly is Senior Pastor of Crossroads International Church, Amsterdam. He has a visionary style of leadership, and is a gifted teacher and poet. In this video he considers the challenge of developing missional communities within a prominent church which is attractive to many people. At masterclass he wants to begin with a big vision of God in mission and then explore how the the church finds its place in that. The booking form is here. All welcome. Enough from me- here’s the man himself:

New developments

	We are moving…The new address for the Together in Mission offices is Rowheath Pavilion, Bournville, Birmingham, B30 1HH. Rowheath Pavilion is the home of the Pavilion Christian Community. Martin and Lynda founded this church many years ago, and it’s been a place where theory has been worked out in practice- or not worked out… it’s been a place for trying thing out, and starting again… Now it is a thriving community centre which is serving many people in Bournville. 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.
	Missional Leadership Students- your Summer School booking form is here. To wet your appetites, your tutors are Alan Roxburgh, Richard Whitehouse, Martin Robinson, Roy Searle and Rick Lewis. I am sorry, this event is for students only. Others will be interested in the parrallel Masterclass on the 18th July, lead this year by Gerard Kelly. More information to come.
	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…