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A Medhurst Ministries Podcast about Christian life and mission in places affected by spiritual and economic deprivation.
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Ian speaks with Gary Matthews about his life growing up on several council estates in the North West of England, his experiences as a council estate Christian, and what he expects from his new role as the Medhurst Ministries Regional Director for the Midlands.
John Onwuchekwa, author and lead pastor of Cornerstone Church in Atlanta, Georgia, speaks with Ian about the need for mentors who look like their mentees, diversity in the church and winning allies instead of arguments.
Follow John onTwitter @JawnO
Buy his books here https://www.10ofthose.com/uk/authors/john-onwuchekwa
Find his podcast and business here https://linktr.ee/jawno
Ben Falaja a former boxer, grew up in a fatherless family in the 90's and has been mentored by Eric Young a former pro-footballer and policeman. They both talk about how their love of Jesus, sport and experiences of fatherlessness has led to friendship between two men of differing ages, ethnicities and cultures.
Ian and Nathan talk to Steve Kneale about how you have to shout loud if you want to be heard, the danger of small churches having to fight over the scraps and how promoting the gospel needs of Northern England can often lead to people taking offence.
Steve's blog and podcast can be found here
https://buildingjerusalem.blog
More info about the church plant in Rochdale can be found here
https://www.rochdaleevangelicalchurch.com
Jamie Jones-Buchanan MBE is a former Rugby League player for Leeds Rhinos who has played internationally for England and Great Britain. Despite winning numerous accolades on and off the pitch, Jamie shares how his biggest rewards are God and his family.
Mike McKinley is the author of Friendship with God and several other books, including Church in Hard Places and Church Planting is for Wimps. He has been the Sterling Park Baptist Church pastor in Sterling, Virginia, since 2005. Before that, he served on the pastoral staff of Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, D.C., having received his MDiv from Westminster Theological Seminary. Mike is married to Karen, and they have five children.
Kevin Greer shares his experiences as someone who has moved into a deprived inner-city community in Baltimore, Maryland, to start a family and support his wife (a gospel worker) his local church in taking the gospel to his neighbours.
Dr. Mark Pickett shares his experiences as a cross-cultural worker in India and Nepal and looks at the cross over between his work abroad and in the UK
This weeks episode features an interview with Gloria Furman for Medhurst Women Module 5: Value Others Above Yourself.
This week Ian speaks with Dr Anthony Bradley. Dr Bradley was most recently professor of religious studies and director of the Center for the Study of Human Flourishing at The King’s College, Theologian-In-Residence at Redeemer Presbyterian Church—Lincoln Square, and now serves as a distinguished research fellow at The Acton Institute and Research Professor of Interdisciplinary and Theological Studies at Kuyper College.
You can find more about his work here https://www.dranthonybradley.com
This week Ian speaks with Natalie Williams. Natalie is the co-author of four books, including A Call to Act (2020) and Invisible Divides (2022). She is passionate about the church being a place of overflowing mercy, especially for those trapped in poverty.
Natalie grew up in relative poverty in the deprived seaside town of Hastings. She became a Christian at 15, which changed her life completely. Natalie has been involved with Jubilee+ since its first year, and took over from founder Martin Charlesworth as Jubilee+ chief executive in April 2021.
You can find her books here
https://jubilee-plus.org/books/
and more about Jubilee Plus here
https://jubilee-plus.org/about/
This week Ian speaks with Alex DiPrima about his latest book Spurgeon and the Poor and they discuss taking the gospel to and training there working class for gospel ministry.
Alex is the Senior Pastor of Emmanuel Church in Winston Salem, NC. He holds a PhD from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in historical theology with an emphasis in the ministry of Charles Spurgeon.
You can purchase Spurgeon and the Poor here
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Spurgeon-Poor-Compels-Christian-Concern/dp/1601789459
and follow Alex on Twitter here
https://twitter.com/Alex_DiPrima
Mofiyinfoluwa (Mo) Aina recently moved from Lagos, Nigeria to Middlesbrough, England and shares about how he and his family have navigated the cultural differences in a new country and church. He also shares about the positives and negatives of both the British and Nigerian Christian cultures and explains how we as a church can benefit from one another.
You can find Mo's YouTube Channel below
https://www.youtube.com/@sold-outworship
Dawn Thomson is a gospel worker at Spen Valley Church in Cleckheaton and shares about her ministry and life as a church planters wife and a mother in a former mill town in West Yorkshire. You can find out more about Dawn and her church here www.spenvalleychurch.org
In this episode, Ian interviews Charles Patterson from California. He finds out how he first became involved with Medhurst Ministries and why he volunteers to promote our work as a Ministry Ambassador.
Is it true that although the UK church doesn’t require you to cut off your foreskin or follow the mosaic laws, it does require to cut off your culture and follow the middle-class social norms?
This weeks podcast is a recording of a sermon on Acts 15:1-35 preached by Ian Williamson at Emmanuel Church, Northstowe.
Matt Searles shares about how we can enjoy God by spending time with God in song.
Matt is based in Oxford and leads on Biblical Studies as a member of Crosslands faculty. His doctorate is in Biblical Theology and he is the author of several books. He particularly loves teaching from the Psalms, helping people see how they are a gift from God to us to help us relate to him in all areas of life.
This week Ian speaks with Andy Constable about his recent academic research on how the church should respond top addiction. Andy is the associate pastor of Niddrie Community Church, Edinburgh and co-director of 20Schemes
SESSION 5 | Stay (Mark 5:18-19)
This weeks podcast features Ian Williamson preaching at Session 1 of the Medhurst Ministries 2020 Weekender. Ian is the Executive Director of Medhurst Ministries and he speaks about the need and challenges for council estate Christians to stay and minister to their communities.
In this week's episode, Dan Green (our guest host) interviews Rachel about Medhurst Ministries' new training program for women.
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