HeartEdge Mailer | May 2019

HeartEdge Mailer | May 2019

• HeartEdge is an international ecumenical movement.
• We are churches and other organisations developing mission.
• We focus on 4 areas - commercial activity, congregations, cultural engagement and compassion.
• Join us! Details here.

Each month we collect and email stories, web links, news related to our focus: commercial activity, congregations, cultural engagement and compassion. Useful, inspiring, practical - it's a resource.

This month:

• Mari Andrew on grief, Lucy Winkett on homelessness, Sally Hitchiner on hosting refugees and Bill McKibben on climate.
• Match Trading, growing your own vegetables plus the technicalities of poetry nights and setting up as a music venue.
• Video shorts special - including 'One breath Around the World'.
• Remembering Jean Vanier and Rachel Held-Evens.
• Finally, Paula Gooder and an extract from her new book - 'Phoebe'.

Read the May Mailer here - "A monthly smorgasbord of ideas, focused around HeartEdge 4C's."

HeartEdge has two Introductory Days coming up which will explore approaches to mission, do theology, develop ideas and help build on the community of practice. We'll do this by referring to:

• Congregation: Liturgy, worship & new congregations
• Commerce: Being entrepreneurial, growing income via enterprise
• Compassion: Grow participation to address social need
• Culture: Art, music connecting with communities

We'll start with refreshments from 10am and a programme from 10.30am.

• All our contributors are practitioners - a community learning by experience.
• Programme will include panel discussion and practical ‘how to’ session.
• Lots of opportunity to build networks, make connections, with time to meet over lunch and refreshments.

Practical, inspiring with lots to celebrate and take away - we hope you can join us:

• 11 June 'Newcastle HeartEdge Day' with Sam Wells and guests. A unique programme of theological reflection and local contributors. HeartEdge days focus around our HeartEdge 4 Cs with an emphasis on practical insight and ideas to take away. Book in here.
• 27 June 'Derby HeartEdge Day' with Sam Wells and guests - working across Derby and the surrounding area? Urban, suburban or rural? We would love you to join this practical one-day intensive introduction to HeartEdge with Sam Wells and guests. We're ecumenical and open to all. The day will explore approaches to mission, do theology, develop ideas and help build on the community of practice in Derby. Book in here.
• The HeartEdge annual conference 'On Earth as it is in Heaven' will happen from 2 - 3 October in Edinburgh. The conference is a practical, two-day intensive of ideas, theology and connecting. It includes workshops on enterprise and commerce, launching cultural projects, developing congregations and sustaining community response. This year contributors include Winnie Varghese, Sally Hitchiner, Sam Wells, Mark Strange, Colin Sinclair, Sheena McDonald, Deborah Lewer, ID Campbell, Cormac Russell and many others. 2 & 3 October 2019 - Day 1 at The Parish Church of St Cuthbert, 5 Lothian Road, Edinburgh EH1 2EP and Day 2 at St John's Church, Princes Street, Edinburgh, EH2 4BJ. Further information from Revd Jonathan Evens, Associate Vicar HeartEdge, St Martin-in-the-Fields - Tel: 020 7766 1127, Email: jonathan.evens@smitf.org. To book in early-bird visit here.

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Buddy & Julie Miller - Orphans Of God.