Annual Conference Only One Life: Programme

Programme

The Annual Conference has the aim of helping people to ask the question; ‘Should I go into full-time gospel ministry?'. To this end we provide an environment which has a healthy mix of teaching from the Bible, practical seminars on different types of ministry and particular issues, one-to-ones with experienced church leaders, and time for informal chat with those church leaders and other delegates.

The programme looked like this in the previous years:

Friday

6:30pm Arrive from now
8:00pm Supper
9:00pm Bible Reading 1 (1 Corinthians) Vaughan Roberts
Prayer Group

Saturday

8:30am Breakfast
9:30am What is Gospel Ministry? Christopher Ash
Prayer Group
11:15am Coffee
11:45am God's Word to God's World Dick Dowsett
1:00pm Lunch
2:00pm Free Time
4:00pm Tea
4:30pm Seminars (1)
5:40pm Seminars (2)
6:45pm Supper
8:00pm Interviews
Prayer Group

Sunday

8:30am Breakfast
9:30am Bible Reading 2 (1 Corinthians) Vaughan Roberts
Prayer Group
11:15am Coffee
11:45am What Next? Mark O'Donoghue
1:00pm Lunch
2:00pm Depart

Talks

Vaughan Roberts, Rector of St Ebbe's Church, Oxford, leads this conference and will give two Bible readings setting the foundations for gospel ministry. Then other leaders, invited from churches all over the country, will give another three talks about gospel ministry itself: what it is, who should do it and what to do next. Such high quality teaching is often a highlight of the conference for many and is the backbone to most of the other elements at the conference.

Seminars

The seminars are a great chance to find out a bit more about a particular type of ministry or an area of particular interest. Seminars over the last few years have been:

Anglican Ministry
Free Church Ministry
Women's Ministries
Theological Education
International Gospel Work
Inner City Ministry
Marriage and Ministry
Youth Ministry.

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