Raising Gospel Hearted Youth and Children’s Workers
Recently I had the privilege of meeting the new British monarch, King Charles III. I ended up having a two minute conversation with him where he asked me about the work of Growing Young Disciples and developing young leaders in particular. In the course of the conversation, one of the questions he asked was ‘Are […]
Ministry Traineeship Finance Guidance
Working out the most appropriate and legally compliant arrangements for ministry trainee finances is a very thorny issue. We are grateful for the assistance of many churches and organisations in compiling this guidance. N.B. this guidance is from June 2021 and is due for updating.
How Do You Spot A Gospel Minister?
Rector of St Ebbe’s Oxford and one of our co-founders, Vaughan Roberts takes us back to basics with some cutting observations from Colossians 1 on the nature of genuine gospel ministry. 1) The authentic gospel minister serves God’s people. “I rejoice in what was suffered for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is […]
Why We Should Train Women for Ministry
Someone told me: “There’s really no point in training women for ministry – they just leave when they get married and have babies.” “There’s really no point in training women for ministry – they just leave when they get married and have babies.” I really heard this… from a woman… at a 9:38 conference. I think I […]
Setting up a Training Programme
For over twenty years now, 9:38 has been engaged in encouraging Christian men and women to consider devoting themselves to full-time gospel ministry. And a key component of this has been to promote ‘Ministry Trainee Schemes’ – One or two year opportunities to be trained in a real church ministry environment. There are now many […]
Developing a Training Church
Most people reading this will be familiar with the model of ministry Paul gives us in Ephesians 4. “It was he who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, to prepare God’s people for works of service, so that the body of Christ […]
Raising up workers in non-student churches
So many of us became Christians in a student setting, or were significantly discipled there, that it left its fingerprints all over us. That’s where we learnt to read the Bible for ourselves, lead a Bible study for others, and making a convincing case for Christ to an unbelieving friend. That all this happened at […]
Raising Up Godly Leaders
Mark Dever, pastor of Capitol Hill Baptist Church, Washington D.C. spoke about Growing Healthy Churches at a one-day conference at Duke Street Church, Richmond-upon-Thames. His final session focused on the importance of Raising up Godly Leaders. Mark has kindly allowed 9:38 to summarise his advice on identifying, training and growing godly leaders. As Mark explained, […]
Evangelism as a Pastor
I can remember a good friend telling me something he had recently learnt from an internship as a management consultant: “you’re only a leader if people are following you; otherwise you’re just taking a walk!” It’s a comic picture but it is as true for the church as in the business world. As a church […]
Labour shortage at a large church
It seems to me that there will always be a labour shortage in a church when mission is at the top of the agenda. That is why the Lord Jesus calls disciples to pray for more workers. It is what keeps us honest and dependent before the Lord of the Harvest. He knew we would […]
The great privilege of an ‘ordinary pastor’
“Are you busy today?” asked the hairdresser as she cut my hair. “No, it’s my day off.” “I had no idea vicars got a day off” she offered. Come to think of it, she probably had no idea what we do on a day ‘on’ either. As it happens we went on to talk about […]
A training church
The work at Moorlands, Lancaster, began in 2005 as a church plant initiated by the North West Partnership. From the start we have simply aimed to be a straight forward Bible teaching church which is accessible to all people in the city, especially those with no church background. We have also had a particular vision […]
