Furthering Ecumenical Cooperation within Leicester and Leicestershire
In a period of uncertainty as 2022 comes to an end, we feel there is an openness to the message of Jesus.
Following the Talking Jesus research we did earlier in the year to understand how the UK felt about Christianity to use facts not anecdotes, we discovered insights to help shape our evangelism and mission.
"Will everything be ok?" was the question that resonated most with the UK public. As the events of the year have unfolded this question still resonates.
Also, the biggest influence that brings adults to faith is a life event -either positive or negative! This means the pandemic, war in Ukraine, energy crisis, and cost of living crisis combined all create uncertainty, and the church needs to help people through this difficult time.
Now’s the time to make sure everyone in the UK gets the opportunity to find out about Jesus. We will work together to achieve this.
We are encouraging you to do is to make time to consider the full research and dream about how you might tackle this opportunity.
There are many statistics that point to the importance of peer conversations, people reading the bible for themselves and attending a church service. You can watch a long explanation of the report here or a short one.
The Talking Jesus report can be downloaded in full or purchased in the shop as a hard copy.
Take time to discuss with others what a year of mission could mean for you. We're here to support you.
Perspective Conversation - An online conversation featuring the fantastic Amy Orr-Ewing and Mike Royal – focussing on the impact of the current cultural changes that we’re all facing in mission and evangelism. Join in.
What's next
The new look supports how we have evolved from our 2008 roots as a growing organisation in a versatile digital world
Our values and goals are the same. We want everyone, everywhere to know Jesus
Hope Together is connecting with local churches and mission-minded individuals (and church growers) around the UK to make that happen as part of Hope 23 - 24.
Next month we’ll be releasing the updated version of the Talking Jesus Course – you can get everyone up on the information and inspired to be part of the year of mission where you are.
In the new year we’re focussing on prayer for every person and home in the UK. We’ll have lots of resources to help, from guides to prayer walking, listening to your community to a prayer app s
We’ll be launching our new portal – filled with ideas, stories and inspiration for you to plan your year of mission more precisely
We’ll help you kick off - the team is happy to come and talk where you are.
Pioneer practice is about seeing possibility, dreams, ideas of how things could be better or new or different. And then making something happen out of that seeing.
