Report
on Serving Strangers 2014-08-01

I thought some of you might be interested in an update of our mission portfolio, so I have just copied and pasted my notes: "to be told with suitable anecdotes" :) And, of course, suitable visual aids: paintings, easel, a skeleton puppet, a wig and a hat.
“Reaching the World outside the church”
1. Outsiders
a. Saturday
Mornings in Claremont: aiming at building relationships and experiencing
serendipitous meetings with the church-averse.
b. Back-row
pastoring.
c. Creativity
evangelism events: Puppets; Mime;
2. Sparrows
a. Mostert
Menage: Monday nights – gathering of friends
b. Counselling
& mentoring
c. Jesse
Art
3. Academics
& Training
a. Academic
Papers: Making Mission Happen – plotting rhetorical strategies
b. Alpha
Research Project – completed. Alpha SA is implementing our recommendations
c. CI
Theology of Mission lectures
d. BI Theology
of Mission lectures
e. Discipling
Nations – grass roots mission training courses & camps
f. PhD
studies – “Evangelism in the Methodist Churches of Cape Town” – aiming at
raised profile for discussion of evangelism in Methodist churches, and insights
for everyone into evangelism in post-modern & post-colonial South Africa
4. Special
events
a. Flamjangled
Tea Party, Earthdance – ministry team to
trance parties
b. Discipling
Nations trip to Eastern Cape Hospital
c. Bible
Reading Weekends
5. Tentmaking
a. UCT
part-time work - Lesley
b. Springfield
Primary “Birds” project , Life in Bible Times
c. My
Friend Ned – TV advertisements & movie gigs
d. Illustration
work
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