HeartEdge: Churches & Commerce event

HeartEdge is a growing ecumenical network which supports churches in blending their mission around four key areas:

• Congregation – inclusive approaches to liturgy, worship and day-to-day communal life
• Community – models of outreach serving local need and addressing social justice
• Culture – art, music and ideas to re-imagine the Christian narrative for the present moment
• Commerce – commercial activities that generate finance, creatively extending and enhancing mission and ministry through social enterprise

HeartEdge has organised a day on Churches & Commerce at St Martin in the Bull Ring (Edgbaston St, Birmingham B5 5BB)  on Wednesday 7 March to explore the benefits of commercial activities for churches (including social enterprise).

Contributors include:

• Allyson Hargreaves (Executive Director, St Martin-in-the-Fields), Revd Dr Richard Frazer (Minister, Greyfriars Kirk) and Dr Richard Higginson (Director, Faith in Business)
• Anthony Collins Solicitors, Grassmarket Community Project and others

Refreshments 10am. Programme 10.30am. Finish 3.30pm

The programme includes sessions on: Christian Entrepreneurs; Entrepreneurial Theology; and Structuring Missional Commerce. Additionally, there will be a panel discussion with entrepreneurs and small group input sessions led by specialists (on specific aspects of commercial activity e.g. structures, marketing etc or particular commercial opportunities e.g. social enterprise, training programmes etc).

The programme also includes time for networking and connecting, plus lunch and refreshments.

Cost: £10 for HeartEdge members, £20 for all others.

To book: contact Jonathan Evens – 02077661127 or jonathan.evens@smitf.org

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