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IPC Missions Conference
UK Partnership February 20-24, 2019
How sweet and awesome is the place With Christ within the doors
My Dear riends, I cannot wait for our annual missions conference this year. Our focus will be the United Kingdom Partnership—most of you know that for the past five years, we have partnered together with nearly twenty churches to fund church planting in the United Kingdom. As a result of those efforts, over $1 million has been given to plant Gospel-preaching, Reformed churches in that formerly Gospel-rich land. During our conference, you will have the opportunity to meet many of the leaders whom God is using to reach men and women with the Gospel. These men are significant leaders in their own contexts and denominations with passion and vision not only to plant their own churches, but to reproduce themselves in other new churches. Surely, as we hear these men share what God is doing in the United Kingdom, we should echo Isaac Watts, “We long to see your churches full that all the chosen race may, with one voice and heart and soul, sing your redeeming grace!” Join us at our missions conference this year and rejoice in what Christ is doing! In the grip of God’s grace,
Dr. Sean Michael Lucas Senior Pastor Independent Presbyterian Church
Schedule of Events
Wednesday, February 20
Congregational Dinner | 5:30 p.m.
Join us in welcoming our UKP guests with a Memphis Soul Food dinner: BBQ pork, fried chicken, southern sides, banana pudding, and pecan pie. $7 adults, $5 children
The British Invasion
Mini-concert | 6:15 p.m.
It was February 1964 when Ed Sullivan launched the British Invasion with his now-famous words: “Ladies and gentlemen, The Beatles!” We’re bringing back The Beatles (with a little help from some friends) to launch IPC’s February 2019 British Invasion and salute the United Kingdom Partnership.
Glory Stories | 6:30 p.m.
Hear our guest speakers share a glimpse of their experience replanting in a spiritually barren Great Britain and of God’s increase thus far.
Thursday, February 21 Friday, February 22 Saturday, February 23
Wee Get Togethers In Homes and Offices Breakfasts | 6:30 a.m. Lunches | noon Dinners | 6:00 p.m.
Learn more about individual UKP church planters as part of a small group over breakfast, lunch, and dinner in the homes and offices of IPC members. (Attend as many as you’d like.) For registration details and a schedule of speakers and locations, go to ipcmemphis.org or the Missions Conference table in the IPC Rotunda. For more information, contact the Rev. Ed Norton at (901) 461-8206, or email Tameria Rackley at trackley@ipcmemphis.org.
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Sunday, February 24
Morning Worship Services 8:30 and 11:00 a.m. | Sanctuary The Rev. Ralph Cunnington
Sunday School Electives | 9:45 a.m.
Dr. Al Barth and the Rev. Ralph Cunnington | Room 132 A Plan of Attack: How We Engage Memphis, from Initial Contact to Church Planting
The Rev. Derek Lamont | Chapel
Church Planting in a Post-Christian European Capital City
The Rev. Ivor MacDonald | Room 237
Mission Through Engaging with the Neighborhood
The Rev. Tom Muir | North Fellowship Hall Raising Missional Kids
The Rev. Jonty Rhodes | South Fellowship Hall
How Do I Minister to and Pray for a Church Planter in the United Kingdom?
Dr. Walter Wood | Room 131
A Plan of Attack: How We Engage a European City, from Initial Contact to Church Planting
Congregational Dinner | 5:00 p.m.
Enjoy a Bite of Britain: Beef Wellington, bangers and mash, roasted root vegetables, asparagus spears, chocolate cake with berries, and lemon curd trifle. $7 adults, $5 children
Sunday Evening Praise and Four Corners 6:00 p.m. | Fellowship Hall The Rev. Jonty Rhodes
Nursery provided for Wednesday and Sunday activities.
the earth to come; send your victorious ing the strangers home.
Guest Speakers Dr. Al Barth is an ordained PCA minister who has planted four churches over his pastoral career. He oversees the work of Redeemer City to City in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa, and is the Executive Director of CTC North America. He has served as a coach, trainer, and mentor for many global church planters.
Ralph Cunnington is the pastor of City Church Manchester in Manchester, England. He is on the steering group of City to City UK and the board of UCCF: The Christian Unions. Ralph represents the Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches on the Council of Affinity and co-hosts with Mike Tindall the Planters Collective in Manchester. He is the author of Preaching with Spiritual Power. Derek Lamont has been a pastor for 29 years and led a church revitalization work in 2001 at St Columba’s Free Church, a strategic city center church in Edinburgh, where he now serves as senior minister. This growing church already has three church plants connected with it. He was recently elected moderator designate of the Free Church of Scotland.
Ivor MacDonald is the senior minister of Hope Church in Coatbridge, Scotland. He is the co-founder of Reformission Scotland and serves as Vice Chairman of the Free Church of Scotland Board of Ministry. He is active in church planting and church revitalization, and he takes annual teaching trips to the Karen Bible School in Thailand, where he facilitates pastor conferences. Tom Muir planted Esk Valley Church in Dalkeith, Scotland, in 2016. EVC is a part of the Free Church of Scotland, and has partnerships with Generation Mission and the City to City church planting network. Prior to launching the work at Esk Valley, Tom was the assistant minister at St. Columba’s Free Church in Edinburgh.
Jonty Rhodes is the minister of Christ Church Central in Leeds, England. Before planting the church in Leeds, he served as associate minister at St. Alkmund’s Church in Duffield and in 2010 led a church plant to Derby. Jonty is a minister in the International Presbyterian Church and the author of Covenants Made Simple: Understanding God’s Unfolding Promises to His People. Dr. Walter Wood is Redeemer City to City’s senior catalyst for Western Europe and assistant director of North America. He coaches church planters in Europe and develops partnerships between North American churches and CTC’s target cities. He served as founding pastor of North Cincinnati Community Church in Mason, Ohio, a church that grew to plant eight other churches in the Cincinnati area and beyond.
Sunday Night Four Corners Four Corners is a missions-oriented program for K-5th graders during Independent Presbyterian Church’s Sunday Evening Praise service. Mid-service, the children are dismissed from the Sanctuary and head to the Romper Room, where they learn about a city or country, people group, missionary, or ministry. They hear from God’s Word how God loves us and made us for his glory, how the Gospel is for everyone, and how as followers of Jesus our “Great Commission” is to make disciples, being witnesses of him to the all nations–the Four Corners of the world. Then they pray for the people and place they studied. The children also have opportunities to enjoy cultural activities, singing, viewing pictures and videos, and memorizing Bible verses. Our focus this year has been on John 3:16, Matthew 22:35-39, Matthew 28:16-20, Luke 24:45-48, and Acts 1:8.
“Planting City Church has led other churches in the south of Manchester to take risks. In God’s goodness, he’s used City Church being planted to give other people courage to take a risk for the Gospel, to maybe try their own plants.” The Rev. Ralph Cunnington Pastor, City Church Manchester, Manchester, England, U.K.
The United Kingdom Partnership began
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A N N UA L M E E T I N G LO C AT I O N
SCOTLAND Dundee – 1 church plant Edinburgh – 3 church plants, 1 seminary Glasgow – 2 church plants
ND THE ANNUAL MEETING? anyone interested in the movement of Reformed es, including church pastors, mission committees, nd private investors. American attendees will enjoy h planters face to face, hear their aspirations, and learn p our brothers fight the spiritual onslaught of Islam and althy churches to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ. RY FEES OR MEMBERSHIP DUES? not have a checkbook and there are no membership
ENGLAND
Leeds – 1 church plant Liverpool – 2 church plants London – 2 church plants, 1 church building fund Longbridge – 1 church plant Manchester – 1 church plant, 1 internship Sutton – 1 church plant York – pastors’ training
IRELAND
Dublin – 1 church plant
VISIT www.ipcmemphis.org/ipcmemphis/uk-partnership-/ for more details about the United Kingdom Partnership and the 2018 Annual Meeting speakers, presenters, and schedules. RESERVATIONS for the 2018 Annual Meeting can be made at ukpartnership2018.eventbrite.com QUESTIONS? Contact Rev. Ed Norton, Associate Minister, Independent Presbyterian Church, Memphis, Tennessee, (901) 685-8206, (901) 461-8206, enorton@ipcmemphis.org LODGING INFORMATION: Contact Tameria Rackley, trackley@ipcmemphis.org HOST CHURCH & CITY INFORMATION: Contact Linda Childs, (561) 994-5000, lchilds@spanishriver.com
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