New Wine Magazine - Summer Special - July 2017

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CONNECTING. EQUIPPING. GROWING.

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Summer Special July–August 2017 Real, relaxed and relevant ‘We want them to see the reality of our faith, with all its ups and downs, difficulties, joys and triumphs.’ Faith in the family p.19

As a New Wine family we are committed to living out our shared vision and values through Word and Spirit – across all ages, communities, cultures, backgrounds and abilities – 365 days a year. Thanks to financial support from our Nation Changers, we’re seeing God’s kingdom growing in exciting new ways:

Church Planting

We have been able to offer support to two church plants: Saint Philips Chapel Street in Manchester and Saturday Gathering in Halifax. We’re hearing incredible, life-changing stories from these churches; from Easter Sunday baptisms to miraculous healings to freedom from witchcraft.

Discipleship Year

DY equips 18-24-year-olds to grow as disciples to serve Jesus and his kingdom with all of their lives for all of their lives. Emma Holland is a former intern: ‘Through the teaching, serving and being completely immersed into the life of the church, God transformed how I saw him and revealed gifting and passions I never knew I had.’

Young Adults

Less than three percent of 18-30s attend church. Millennials are looking for a sense of family, to find value and be part of something bigger. New Wine is uniquely placed to reach this generation. Ben Doolan leads this ministry and is currently working to raise up young leaders in every region to be innovators in drawing 18-30s into the church family.

Accessible Church

We believe people of all abilities should have the opportunity to participate fully in their local church and with every New Wine event. We provide support, training and resources for those wanting to grow in the way they welcome those with additional needs.

As part of the New Wine family, you are already a valued partner in these and many other areas of our mission. We’d love you to consider taking another step and supporting the family financially as a Nation Changer.

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Welcome Summer is a frenetic season for New Wine. It’s a refreshing, chaotic, warm (rainy!), messy, invigorating time of coming together as a family. We are expectant to see God work among us as we unite thousands to worship one – and we are thrilled you’re with us.

We know that when we gather in the summer the Spirit moves powerfully. We also know that the Spirit ministers powerfully when we’re back home in our local churches. New Wine is more than two weeks every summer and it gives us great joy to continue the journey of seeing what we’ve experienced in the summer permeate the rest of the year.

This special edition of the New Wine Magazine is designed to open up the other 50 weeks of New Wine to you. Whether it’s growing in discipleship (pg 36), making your church more accessible (pg 28) or raising the next generation of worship leaders (pg 12), my prayer for you this summer is that you connect with God and connect with each other, so that you are supported, encouraged and empowered to live out what God has planned for his kingdom in the other 50 weeks.

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We are a family on a mission and as Paul poses the question ‘What’s next?’ (pg 4), I look forward to hearing your stories of how this summer impacted you far beyond the borders of the campsite.

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CONTENTS

What next?

Paul Harcourt encourages us to see this week as the start of something new 5

Room to grow A Discipleship Year student writes about the difference this year has made 7 Upcoming events Who, what, when and where 9 Plugged in Worship leaders share their excitement at seeing people encounter God 13

Passionate supporters Leadership needn’t be lonely. Our Network provides support in the hard times 15

Open invitation Naomi Graham explores how we include people with additional needs 29

Real, relaxed and relevant Wisdom on living out faith in the context of family from David and Mary Pytches 19

Recommended Resources Learn and be inspired, challenged and encouraged 32

Mini disciples X-Cavate! enables children to connect with God, writes Kirstine Robb 21

Built on rock How do we follow Jesus with our whole lives? Asks Matthew Porter 37

I want in Craig Duvel tells his story of crying out to God for more of the Kingdom 25

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WHAT NEXT?

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ore important than what God does in us this summer is what we do afterwards. Paul Harcourt encourages us to see this gathering as the start of an adventure.

What do you want from this event? Perhaps you’ve come with a longing to meet with God, hear from him and have your faith renewed. You might be excited about something specific you’ve seen in the programme, or have a general sense of expectation that we’ll go away at the end of this time having been blessed. Every time we’ve been to a New Wine gathering, we’ve come away glad that we were there. We’ve been strengthened in our faith and recaptured an intimacy that sometimes gets lost in the busyness of life.

Asking questions

But what comes next? It’s easy to say we’ve been changed – sometimes that we’ll never be the same again – but life has a way of reasserting the old patterns and, if we’re honest, we’ve often lost something we thought we’d gained forever. That’s clearly not God’s intention. On the Day of Pentecost there was a lot of confusion in the crowd. Many couldn’t work out what God was doing in their midst. They saw the result of the disciples’ powerful encounter with the Holy Spirit. Acts 2 says that some immediately dismissed what the disciples were experiencing and made fun of them, saying, ‘they have had too much wine’. But the others, who saw what God was doing and who heard Peter’s explanation, asked two great questions – ‘what does this mean?’ (Acts 2:12) and ‘what must we do?’ (Acts 2:37). Those are two fantastic questions to bear in mind as we travel through this time together, especially since they will help us keep our eyes on what happens when we get home.

‘He loves it when his children gather to celebrate, but he has never wanted us to become a holy huddle hiding from the world he came to transform’ Launch pads

What happens next is central to what God wants to happen now.

He loves it when his children gather to celebrate, but he has never wanted us to become a holy huddle hiding from the world he came to transform. These times are high points in the year for many of us, but that probably isn’t how it’s meant to be – I have a sense that God wants them to be significant because they’re launch pads, rather than spa days! Yes, there will be refreshment, renewal and healing – and many of us come needing those – but there will also be fresh vision, commissioning, new spiritual gifts and anointing poured out. I believe that his plan for these days is always going to have an outworking in the lives of our churches and communities in the year to come. Rather than a brief respite to recharge the batteries and survive the slog, it’s the start of an adventure.

The start of something

What might come from this year’s encounters with God? I’ve seen people do amazing things after meeting with him in a special way at a New Wine event. Ellie went away with a fresh vision for restoring families, started a ministry and later wrote a book.

John found courage from a specific word of knowledge that he was given, went home and changed career. Sue and Daniel loved what they saw of the ministry to children with special needs in Our Place, so they started a similar group in their own church.

Hannah found her calling by serving on a team and is now in training for youth and community work. Adam was set free from life-controlling issues and now has a powerful testimony to other people who struggle as he did.

Blessed to be a blessing

Some changes won’t be as dramatic. Perhaps there will be special reminders of God’s grace. Perhaps a speaker will say something that allows you to see your circumstances in a new light or see new significance in what you do. You might be inspired to pick up a guitar, or to read further about an area of ministry that fascinated you in a seminar. Maybe a new friendship will begin around the BBQ or over a drink at the end of the day. Whatever Jesus does, and he always does more than we can either ask or imagine, it won’t stop with this event, or indeed with us. The natural thing for God’s love to do is overflow, because he’s always got more than we need. From the beginning of his rescue plan, God’s people have been blessed to be a blessing (Genesis 12:2). We should always be conscious of what comes next.

Giving it away

Our strapline is ‘local churches, changing nations’. We come together from many backgrounds but share a common vision – we want to see the life of the local church transformed so that our local communities can be filled with God’s love. That’s only going to happen if we remember that this time is meant to flow back into the time that follows. And, as John Wimber used to remind us in the early days of New Wine, that’s the key to receiving more anyway: ‘If you want more, give away what you’ve got!’

So don’t just attend, join the family! Keep in mind what comes next. As you meet God, ask yourself, ‘what does this mean?’ and ‘what must we do?’ We’re working hard to connect the summer gatherings with the rest of the year. Maybe you could encourage your leaders (including kids’, youth, young adults’, worship and accessible ministry) to connect with their local network or ministry?

Perhaps you know an 18-24-year-old perfect for the Discipleship Year? Or how about taking a friend along to another event during the year? Ultimately, New Wine isn’t a conference, we’re a family with a mission. Let’s pray that we’ll see the nation changed.

Paul Harcourt Paul is New Wine’s National Leader. He is married to Becky and is the vicar of All Saints' Woodford Wells, a group of four churches.  @paulharcourt

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ROOM TO GROW

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year of challenge, friendship, fun and learning that God can use all of us if we’re willing to be vulnerable.

A Discipleship Year student shares her story.

As a third-year university student I was only too happy to finish.

Once it was all well and truly behind me it seemed like the perfect time to recharge my batteries and face the real world. Then someone mentioned an internship vacancy at CLC Bookshop in Leicester.

Books? Retail training? A chance to submit to God and serve the public? Right up my street. And it was through this internship that I was to take part in the New Wine Discipleship Year.

Only a few days into working at the shop I went to my first discipleship day. I have Asperger’s Syndrome, a mild form of autism, and have always been a bit of an introvert. Major change can be hard and being surrounded by people is exhausting. So facing a day in a room full of strangers I was going to have to ‘get vulnerable’ with, having no idea what else to expect, was way out of my comfort zone.

Preparation and pressure

In our second week our leader had us writing a talk on a parable in under an hour. Having just graduated in Creative Writing and Journalism, I was used to writing under pressure. Yet I panicked and had to be given extra time, much to my embarrassment. Not the best first impression! But the New Wine Discipleship Year is supposed to be a challenge. This course addresses ‘facing the real world’ on so many levels. It confronts many worldly ideas that are widely accepted. If there’s one thing it’s taught me, it’s that sometimes you have to extend your comfort zone. If that’s not preparation for later life, I don’t know what is.

It has become easier and more enjoyable. I think the turning point for me was the weekend away at the end of September. There were some great talks, plenty of activities to choose from and, mercifully, regular opportunities for quiet time. I’d initially been wary of spending the whole weekend with a bunch of people I barely knew.

I had to force myself to get to know everyone and to engage, but by the time we went away I felt like a fully established member of the group. I sang in the worship band – something I never get to do at church as I’m always playing my violin. My new friends were happy to hang out with me and, at the same time, didn’t mind when I needed a break. I felt included.

Ripples in a pool

Then there was the prayer time. At the end of the Saturday evening talk we were asked to pray for those who stood up wanting prayer.

Did we have any words for them? Prophetic images? As ever, I didn’t.

Disheartened, I shared all this with a friend afterwards, who told

me of all the times they thought their prayers and prophetic words meant nothing, only to hear later how profoundly impacted the other person had been. This reminded me of an analogy I had heard at church: your actions are like a stone dropping into a pool; they may feel insignificant, but the consequences, like the ripples in the pool, spread farther than you know. I said this to my friend, whose immediate reaction was ‘Grace, you do know you’ve just prophesied over me, right?’ I sensed God saying that I have just as much potential as the next Christian.

‘If there’s one thing it’s taught me, it’s that sometimes you have to extend your comfort zone. If that’s not preparation for later life, I don’t know what is’ Showing weakness

Overall this course has been a real learning curve. My understanding of God and his works was continually changing and growing. I learnt a lot about myself and the people around me. I became painfully aware of how far short of God’s plan I fell, but to build each other up, we need to show where we’re vulnerable. I often asked myself ‘how many weaknesses must we be willing to show?’

Perhaps as many as you are willing to get help for.

Would you be ideal for the course? Are you comfortable with lots of people? How much experience do you have with the Holy Spirit?

Do you know where you’re going next? None of this matters! God meets you where you are. Whatever your strengths and weaknesses, there is room for you to grow, and you’ll make friends and laugh a lot along the way.

I’m not sure what’s next for me – perhaps a career in writing – but for now I’m praying that we’d all be willing to face whatever lies around the corner.

Grace Liu Grace completed the Discipleship Year at the Holy Trinity Leicester hub. For more of her writing go to unwrittengrace.wordpress.com Go to new-wine.org/DY for more about the New Wine Discipleship Year.

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The Discipleship Year is an opportunity for 18-24-year-olds with a hunger to discover their calling and fulfil their potential. It is a chance to be equipped, empowered and encouraged to advance the kingdom of God in the world today. It is about making disciple-making disciples, building solid foundations for a life of adventure following Jesus.

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ew Wine Worship leaders share their passion for seeing people encounter God in their local church context and the impact of being part of the network.

What’s your church like?

St Paul’s is a growing and vibrant city church that is truly intergenerational and has a big impact in its local area.

What do you love about it?

Leading a team in this context is such a privilege; as Worship Pastor I regularly get to witness people encountering Jesus for the first time, often during sung worship.

What are some of the challenges?

Serving and loving a church with such a wide demographic can be hard work at times (all good families are)! I am constantly reminded that as a pastor I am there to firstly serve God, and then the congregation – never myself.

What do you value about the New Wine Worship (NWW) Network?

I first went to Shepton Mallet in 1990 and it was there that I first encountered the Holy Spirit and was completely captivated by passionate worship. Ten or so years later I met my wife while serving on the worship team in the Emerging Generation venue – this summer I’m leading worship in the Hungry venue. New Wine has been formational in my development not only as a worship pastor but as a worshipper and follower of Jesus.

The one-day training events have been so helpful and I regularly draw back to things I learnt. Three years ago I took a team to the School of Worship and that was such an encouraging time for us; meeting other worshippers who are giving it everything in their contexts (big and small) is always such an inspiration. There is always a sense that everyone in the room is a friend.

Here in Salisbury we have begun to gather local worship leaders and teams from across the city and the wider region. We meet monthly as The Source under the New Wine Worship umbrella to worship, encounter God’s presence and cry out for our city and the surrounding area – it’s great to see what happens when local churches come together to seek first the Kingdom. I’m so excited by the journey that we’re on as a family. I have this sense that as we commit to pressing further into who God is and what he’s calling his Church to become we’ll see incredible things happen in this nation.

What’s your church like?

Saturday Gathering is a church we co-founded in September 2012 primarily for those who are homeless, recovering from addictions, out of prison and those who are vulnerable and marginalised.

What do you love about it?

Many of our guys come broken and damaged, often with no knowledge of Jesus. One thing we love is seeing profound encounters with God during worship, which completely transform their lives, breaking off chains and reaffirming their identity as sons and daughters of God. Often the wounds cut so deep that nothing but God can heal them. One evening a Wicken High Priestess visited. She recounts how she was standing at the back of the room when we started singing Amazing Grace. She felt she couldn’t move while waves of love and grace began to wash over and through her. She’d never felt anything like it. In that moment she encountered the living God, renounced her life as a High Priestess and surrendered her life to Jesus. She is now one of our key members of ministry staff.

What are some of the challenges?

Hardly any of our family have any experience of the more traditional church setting, nor knowledge of what would be widely considered socially acceptable in these times. One Saturday during worship, phones rang, a group began chatting, a fight seemed about to break out. At first we wanted to end the worship swiftly and move on to the message. But the Holy Spirit pointed out there was a spirit of distraction in the place and it needed to be dealt with. Praying we’d heard right, we stopped the song, explained what was happening, got rid of the demonic stuff, everyone refocussed and we began a powerful time of worship. At the end of the evening we discovered that once we had dealt with the distraction a visitor gave his life to Jesus and another man was healed of lung cancer – later verified by doctors! There are many challenges but we’re learning to navigate our way through with the Holy Spirit ever faithfully guiding us.

We’ve baptised over 140 people, most of whom stay with us and are passionate, authentic worshippers.

What do you value about being part of NWW?

We’ve attended United in the summer for years, but got connected to the worship network through Linda Maslen, who co-leads Saturday Gathering. It’s hugely encouraging connecting with other worship leaders and musicians, seeing how God is encountering his people across the UK through quality worship. We’re building some wonderful relationships. We’re often on the front lines and it means a great deal to know that we’re not in this on our own, but have a whole army standing beside us.

Paul Kingsley-Smith

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Paul is Worship Pastor at St Paul’s Salisbury in Wiltshire.

He is married to Laura and has three daughters.  @KingsleySmithP

Cath & Angus co-lead Saturday Gathering in Halifax and run creative projects for its community.

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PASSIONATE SUPPORTERS

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ooking for a leaders’ network with exclusivity, posh coffee and comfy seats? Will you settle for friendship, accountability and life-giving prayer support? Here’s one member’s story.

What’s your connection with New Wine?

I was at the first New Wine event in 1989 as a teenager and I’ve been almost every year since. I grew up going to St Andrew’s High Wycombe and our vicar – John Hughes – was a close friend of Barry Kissell and David Pytches at St Andrew’s Chorleywood, where New Wine started. We came as a church each year and I was even at the predecessor event in 1988, Take 7. I’m now a church leader at St John’s Colchester and part of the New Wine Leadership Network.

When did you become a church leader?

I’ve been an ordained church leader for 12 years this summer.

Before that I was a youth pastor at St Andrew’s Chorleywood. I was also involved in setting up the New Wine Leaders in Training Network while at Wycliffe Hall in Oxford.

Why did you join the Leadership Network?

The network connects leaders not only with peers but also with people with more experience who can support, encourage and pray for you – and I’ve needed that. When I first came into this job at St John’s almost five years ago I had to make some tough calls and the prayer support was invaluable. I appreciate the teaching too. My local network has three or four meetings a year when guest speakers come and teach on New Wine values, leadership and different aspects of leading local churches. There’s a fantastic range of different speakers within the network.

How else does the Network support you?

I’m in a core group with three other local church leaders and we meet once every four to six weeks to pray with and for each other and listen to the Lord for words, pictures and scriptures. It’s a great place of support as well as accountability. Leading a church can be a tough place and it’s great to have leaders surrounding you in prayer. We also text each other for prayer support.

Has there been a time you’ve particularly valued support?

My son Joseph is 10 years old. My wife Vanessa and I found out before he was born that he had kidney damage and, at a week old, were told he would need a transplant, probably while at primary school. In his first few years he spent many days in the Evelina London Children’s Hospital where his care has been outstanding.

It’s been challenging and he’s needed a lot of medication and a feeding tube to boost his nutrition and help control fluid intake.

He would get dehydrated very quickly and tired easily. Once a month we’d take him to a renal clinic at the hospital for blood tests and monitoring.

A faithful prayer group at our previous church, St Stephen’s in Twickenham, lifted our family in prayer through all of this and helped us practically. When we moved to St John’s in Colchester when Joseph was five we continued to pray with others and saw a measure of healing and the life of his kidneys was prolonged by a few years.

‘Knowing that others are standing alongside us in tough times has made such a difference’ A couple of years ago while on holiday we realised that his condition had deteriorated. He lacked energy, was thin and pale and had lost his spark. Conversations began about a living donor kidney transplant and we found out that my kidney was a good match.

Joseph had the transplant last April and he got my right kidney! The surgeons were amazing and the kidney worked instantly. We saw an incredible change in the first 12 hours and his kidney function was the best it’s been in his life. (More than 10,000 people in the UK need a transplant; you can register at www.organdonation.nhs.uk).

Joseph still needs a lot of drugs but the hope is that this kidney will last for many years. He is growing and eating well and his feeding tube has been removed. He’s very active again, playing football and badminton, and we’re both participating at the British Transplant Games in Glasgow this summer (so we’ll be a day late to United Week 2!). We’ve seen a transformed life.

We’ve been so well supported by our church family, our own family, the wider church family and friends. We know that many people have been praying – even those we don’t know personally – and knowing that others are standing alongside us in tough times has made such a difference.

Andy Sachs Andy is Vicar of St John’s Colchester and leads the North East Essex Network.  @RevAndySachs Email cln@new-wine.org to join our Leadership Network.

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ow do we encourage our children to follow Jesus? As research for upcoming book Where Adventure Begins, Anna Martin asked David and Mary Pytches about their experiences.

How did you start following Jesus and did anyone help you?

D: My father was a minister and my mother was a minister’s daughter. I believed but one day when I read a book on the second coming of Jesus I suddenly realised This is more than just believing, it’s living!

M: I came to faith in Jesus aged 18 when somebody took me to a visitors’ service at a church in Oxford. The church was wonderful and I had a lot of help from them.

How did you encourage your daughters in their faith?

D: We haven’t ever tried to pressurise the children. We’ve tried to be with them and encourage them in every way. We’ve witnessed to them casually, not in an intense way. Take it or leave it – this is what we believe.

M: The important thing is that they witnessed it all. They prayed with us, laughed with us, cried with us, they were involved. It’s so important to involve children in your faith journey. We don’t ever want our children to turn around and say ‘Mum and Dad were hypocrites.’ We want them to see the reality of our own Christian faith, with all its ups and downs, difficulties, joys and triumphs – everything, the reality of it.

You were missionaries in South America for 17 years. What impact did that have on your children’s faith?

D: They saw not a ready-made congregation but congregations coming into being. They heard plenty of testimonies from other people coming to faith. I think it made it relevant to them.

M: Church life was quite exciting and they joined in with it all.

When David went to visit a church he’d usually take one of the girls with him. They were very much part of the work out there.

We involved them as much as we could in it. We also had a lot of fun as a family – afternoons on the beach, panning for gold in the rivers. They grew up with a lot of good memories.

How about when they were teenagers and you were back in England?

M: They always went to the evening service. There was a big youth group so they’d come along to that. They weren’t reluctant because there were plenty of boys! We had a lot of youngsters coming in and out of the vicarage. That’s important. All their friends were welcomed, especially the boyfriends – there seemed to be a steady stream of boys who were always drinking coffee in our house! I think it’s important to have a relaxed environment. Don’t make it too heavy.

How can parents share their faith with their children?

M: You’re the greatest witness to your children. The way you are with each other and the way you lead your lives during the week, not just on Sundays. So if you’re telling stories of people you’ve met, or prayed with, or things that have happened, then you’re bringing your Christian life into your everyday living and they see that.

D: Try and live the Christian life in front of them. Pray with them and if the children want to add anything, give them the opportunity to.

M: Pray for your children every day, even when they’ve grown up and left home. We pray for our children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren every day. They phone and ask us to pray for any needs they have because we’re older and retired and have got the time to pray.

‘We want them to see the reality of our faith, with all its ups and downs, difficulties, joys and triumphs’ How would you encourage parents whose kids are struggling with faith?

M: Keep praying. What more can you do? Once you’ve said what you think, they know where you stand and how you feel, you can’t keep on about it, so you just pray. Pray that someone will come along and help them through the next stage.

D: I was the ninth child of 10. My mum died when I was 15. Just before my father died when I was around 20 I was the only one who was following Jesus. My father said “You’ll have to carry on for the others”. Later on they all became Christians! Two were ordained, a brother-in-law was ordained, another became a lay reader, another was a church treasurer, another one died believing that God was calling him into the ministry. It was remarkable!

Anna Martin is Kids’ Curriculum and Resources Developer for New Wine. She also works for Kidz Klub, reaching unchurched children across Coventry. Look out for Where Adventure Begins, a book of wisdom on Christian parenting compiled by Anna, as well as an upcoming theatre tour from Riding Lights Theatre Company.

David & Mary Pytches David & Mary Pytches started the New Wine summer gatherings in 1989 when David was Vicar of St Andrew’s Chorleywood. They’ve been married for nearly 60 years and have four daughters, 12 grandchildren and five great grandchildren.

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“Few things, if any, are more important for the health of the Church than high-quality children’s work. Those who lead children’s groups know what a difference great material can make to their regular sessions … this fantastic curriculum is the answer to their prayers, helping young people and leaders alike encounter Jesus in a way that may ignite their faith for a lifetime!”

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"In a day and age where discipleship is so critical to empowering a generation of kids to live godly and bold lives for Jesus it is a delight to come across such an excellent resource as X-Cavate! I highly recommend it.”

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A kids’ worker shares how the X-Cavate! curriculum is helping connect kids with God.

What’s the context of your kids’ work?

At St Mary’s we have kids’ groups for 0-14s. We meet every Sunday morning, starting first all together in church for family worship before the kids break into their groups for games, teaching, crafts and other activities.

What’s your vision for the kids’ work at St Mary’s?

We believe in creating a space for kids to learn more about God and how much he loves them, for them to experience the Holy Spirit and build friendships while having a lot of fun!

‘They are easy to use and a brilliant way of teaching the kids more about how much God loves them and how this impacts their lives’ Why did you start using the X-Cavate! curriculum?

I love the work of New Wine and our kids really enjoy their groups in the summer so it was nice to feel that was being extended once we had come back to St Mary’s. Once I had tried using the first book for 0-4s I was keen to use the curriculum for 5-7s.

How do you find using it?

I have loved using the X-Cavate! curriculum. The books are easy to use and a brilliant way of teaching the kids more about how much God loves them and how this impacts their lives. The books contain fantastic practical tips and our volunteer team have found it easy to run sessions using the material provided.

Can you share a story of a child meeting or understanding God better as a result of the material?

Last year we used the Ground Breakers curriculum (5-7s) with our 6-11-year-olds. I remember one Sunday speaking with a child about how God has a plan for her life, just like he did Moses. She was moved that this would be true for her; we prayed and she expressed how she felt peace where before she was filled with worry. I am grateful for the curriculum as it’s enabling kids to understand more of who God is and how he has a plan for each of them.

Who would you recommend it for?

Anyone who wants to see the children they work with connect with God. My experience is that it is easy to use and adaptable for use with a wide variety of kids.

Kirstine Robb Kirstine is part of the leadership team at St Mary’s London, where she leads the Kids' and Community work along with a team of volunteers.  @KirstineRobb

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I WANT IN

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esperate to see more of God’s work on earth? Craig Duvel shares some of the frustrations, friendships and miracles of praying for more.

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‘God, you are at work on planet earth and I am missing it!’ This was my prayer in 2004 after a number of years in ministry, including a wonderful time of planting and establishing a local church in the village of Hilton in the Kwa-Zulu Natal province of South Africa.

For all the joy and reward, the life of God revealed to his people in Scripture was so much more than I was experiencing. I asked God to lead me to someone who speaks English and could help me see more of what he was doing – I wanted in!

For all this generosity and grace I was struggling – discovering that Jesus was not just my Saviour to thank or my Lord to worship but, as I began to explore the kingdom of God, he fully intended to be my model for life. He expects us to do what he did. I remember crying in frustration as I listened to the teaching at a New Wine leaders’ retreat. Cindy’s mum was dying of cancer and not only did we not see healing but I could barely hear one word of knowledge or see a headache leave in Jesus’ name. Would I believe my story of disappointment or Jesus’ words in Scripture? Cindy's mum passed away and Cindy ended up injured from the hospice care, immobilised for three months from spinal surgery. Defiantly I began to preach the ministry miracles of Jesus. For another year we saw virtually nothing, but I had become convinced this was biblical and therefore true.

‘All that the doctors could find were five cavities in his brain where the now absent tumours had displaced the tissue!’

God incidences

Less than a year later, after knocking on several doors and a string of ‘coincidences of grace’ and generosity, my wife Cindy and I, with our three children, found ourselves being washed away in a deluge of rain while camping in two tiny tents alongside more than 10,000 other crazy people. God had led us to the New Wine gathering in Shepton Mallet – they called it a ‘summer’ conference!

We had no idea what we were in for, or who the couple were just one tent away from ours. Turns out they were John and Anne Coles, leaders of New Wine, and as we got to know them new opportunities began to come to light. Within a short period I had connected with a local New Wine Network back in South Africa and began to experience ministry that was way off my grid. On one occasion someone received a word of knowledge about a difficult leadership situation I was facing. It was so accurate, so personal, so timely that as I tried to drive home I had to pull over as I was crying too much. I prayed, ‘God you are at work on planet earth and you know and see even me.’

Dreaming for more

We soon began hosting some of the New Wine leaders at our church.

On one occasion Mark Melluish and Barry Hingston from St Paul’s Ealing in London came and we squeezed into their itinerary. They came with us to see some work we were doing in Sweetwaters, a tribal area near our village. We shared something of the need of the little children and our dream to develop a network of crèches.

Many children were being left with a volunteer in a mud hut with no resources, arriving hopelessly under-prepared and undernourished at primary school a few years later. A few months later a staggering gift arrived. The New Wine summer offering, together with two generous churches, had given £60,000 to the ministry!

Today iThemba Projects is a vibrant network investing in children,

Frustration and persistence

Witnessing miracles

Cindy and I were visiting another church when one of the local leader’s children suffered massive head trauma in an accident. I was alone, travelling to the hospital, desperate for my friends, praying like crazy, begging God to send someone who knew what to do. I found myself praying, ‘Jesus, I am convinced that if you were here this would be okay. But you’re not – I am.’ Suddenly I realised that deep down I was still a believer in the absence of God. I confessed my unbelief and walked into the hospital. Cindy and I had the privilege of standing next to this hospital bed in the presence of Jesus. We were nevertheless stunned when a few days later the doctors told the parents that they could not explain their son’s recovery with no damage to his brain. Back in Hilton my plumber Will came to church for the first time in decades. He had been told to get his affairs in order as he had five malignant tumours on his brain. He was like a prodigal coming home, making peace with his Father. We prayed for Will and he felt power surging through him. Two days later he decided to go for another scan. All that the doctors could find were five cavities in his brain where the now absent tumours had displaced the tissue!

Witnessing miracles

I have since had the wonderful privilege of seeing that God is at work all over the world and I am no longer missing out. Many leaders in the New Wine Network have become friends and mentors in this wonderful journey of Kingdom life and faith. Some time back our family moved to Cape Town and I took up the leadership of Pinelands, a brave, well-established church. Within two years we had launched Explore, a different type of congregation in a school nearby. The ripple of Kingdom change goes on every day.

Craig Duvel Craig leads New Wine South Africa and Pinelands Baptist Church in Cape Town. He and his wife Cindy have three children. Cindy is an amazing cook which means he spends some of his free time cycling around Cape Town to burn calories.  @CraigDuvel

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t seems Naomi Graham was born with a passion for inclusion, but is it for everyone?

How did your passion for accessible ministry start?

I’ve always had a desire to include people. When I was little I was the one making sure everyone had a role in the game we were playing.

I was both challenged and inspired by the concept of inclusion at around 10 years old, while helping at a local Beavers group. We had a boy join us who used a wheelchair. I was enthusiastic about helping him join in all the activities. On his first session I took his pencil to write his name for him, and was taken aback by his exclamation: “I can write my own name.” In that moment I realised the extent to which our perceptions can be wrong – we need to look beyond what we perceive as someone’s needs and simply get to know them. In my work as an occupational therapist I love it when I can see potential and walk alongside people as they progress. We see this in Jesus’ life – he looks beyond what the culture or society says and sees each person as they are. As a Church I want us to recognise every individual’s God-given potential and, regardless of ability or disability, be able to celebrate each other and create a Kingdom-shaped culture that welcomes all.

‘We need to look beyond what we perceive as someone’s needs and simply get to know them’ How can our churches be more welcoming?

Accessibility will look different in every church – it often starts with our attitude and approach to the people that come through our doors. Most churches have an attitude of wanting to be welcoming to all but not knowing how. If we are able to show welcome like Jesus did we are taking a big step in the right direction. It’s best to ask the individuals themselves and their families how you can support them. The simplest adjustments are practical and each church should be doing them according to the Equality Act 2010.

This includes providing ramps, an accessible toilet, clear signage, large print words and an induction loop. When there’s no apparent need we don’t see the urgency in putting these things in place, but this is one of the biggest barriers to people with additional needs coming in the first place. Families have told me that they haven’t attended church because there’s no information on the website

about what provision is available. Individuals can be turned away from church or a group because of their additional needs, causing deep hurt to them, their parents and carers. We need to do the best we can to welcome and support everyone before and not after they come to our churches.

Can you share any stories of people who’ve felt welcomed and included in church?

The best stories I’ve heard are when the changes happen across the whole church; when individuals are not separated to do something on their own but the church adapts so everyone can join in. One family found out about our church through a local children’s holiday club where we ran additional needs provision with 1:1 support and a more accessible story time for children with additional needs.

Through this and the opportunity to get to know the family they started to come to our church. The church now has a team each Sunday supporting the children with additional needs (as more families have come) so they can be included in what’s going on.

What have you learnt from people with additional needs?

I have had the incredible opportunity to be a friend and respite carer of a now 17-year-old who has Down’s Syndrome. I’ve learnt so much from playing alongside him, understanding his communication and helping him with everyday tasks he found difficult. I’ve learnt even more through his complete joy and abandon in the way he does life and how he worships God. He’s taught me how to ‘simply be’, to have fun and to celebrate in God’s presence.

Where can churches get additional advice or support?

You can contact me if you have specific questions or would like to explore training locally: naomi.graham@new-wine.org. The New Wine Accessible Church Ministry team run training events (see new-wine.org/accessiblechurch). Serving on the additional needs ministry team at New Wine United is also a great way to get involved and to receive first-hand training that you can take back to your local church. Several other organisations exist to enable churches to be more accessible and the Churches for All network is a good source of information (churchesforall.org.uk).

Naomi Graham Naomi is New Wine’s Head of Accessible Church Ministry and a children’s occupational therapist.  @Naomi_GrahamOT

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ONE MILLION VOICES OF HOPE Speak up for children like Noeh, whose home in Karamles, Iraq was destroyed by IS militants.

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Fragile signs of stability are raising the possibility of returning home and rebuilding lives. But the church remains under threat, particularly in Syria and Iraq, where extremists have set out to destroy the historic Christian presence in the region.

Speaking out

This is why the One Million Voices of Hope petition is so critical.

We’re speaking out with our church family in Syria and Iraq to ask for equality, dignity and responsibility for Christians and other minorities in the Middle East. It’s a way for the church in the UK to speak out together with our church family in the Middle East.

Father Thabet from Iraq says, “We will need international support and protection. This is the only way our future as Christians in this country can be guaranteed. I just signed this petition myself.

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Jesus promised that we would grow into fullness of life by His Spirit. Like many things in life, that growth is not linear, but happens in seasons and cycles. Neither is there simple set of steps to follow guaranteeing maturity – that would be too impersonal for a God who loves relationship. Instead, spiritual growth comes from understanding some basic spiritual truths more and more profoundly. We come back to the same places again and again, each time experiencing them more deeply. This simple, but profound approach to growing in God will reinvigorate your faith and answer many questions about how to develop a vibrant spiritual life.

About the Author Paul Harcourt leads All Saints’ Woodford Wells in NE London, with his wife, Becky, where they have served for 21 years. Paul is New Wine’s Regional Director for the London and East Region. Paul is involved in leadership training for renewed churches and regularly speaks at conferences in the UK and Europe.

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Are you ready for a new, Holy Spirit-filled expedition? Are you ready to dig deep and see God move in exciting ways with your kids? Well grab a spade and get ready for…

X-Cavate! is a curriculum from New Wine Kids that covers ALL our primary age, rock-themed groups. Following on from New Wine Kids curriculum for 0-4 year olds and 5-7 year olds, this book is especially for the wonderful Rock Solid (8-9s) and Boulder Gang (10-11s) groups. It’s especially written for 8-11 year olds (Key Stage 2) and we are so excited to see your children dig deep and find God’s treasure in a fun, interactive, Spirit-filled way, which could transform their lives forever!

We want to share with YOU, the ideas, resources and vision God has given New Wine Kids, so that you can go on an exciting expedition with your kids groups to X-Cavate all the treasure God has for each of you!

8-11s Curriculum that your kids will dig!

This resource is jam-packed with: 10 exciting sessions for 8-11 year olds Interactive Bible Teaching Top Tips from the Our Place team on how to include ALL children

Response activities that are both quiet and lively – specifically designed so that the Holy Spirit has space to touch children at a level that is age appropriate

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“Few things, if any, are more important for the health of the Church than high-quality children’s work. Those who lead children’s groups know what a difference great material can make to their regular sessions … this fantastic curriculum is the answer to their prayers, helping young people and leaders alike encounter Jesus in a way that may ignite their faith for a lifetime!”

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“Anna has created a great tool that brings a sense of worth to every child along their journey of faith. Whether you're a novice or an experienced leader, this resource is for you!”

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"In a day and age where discipleship is so critical to empowering a generation of kids to live godly and bold lives for Jesus it is a delight to come across such an excellent resource as X-Cavate! I highly recommend it.”

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“Filled with all the tools you will need to minister to boys and girls, to help them encounter Jesus through the power of the Holy Spirit.”

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X-CAVATE! Curriculum for 0-4s, 5-7s & 8-11s Anna Martin ❛Anna Martin has produced resources that do all the thinking for you, weaving fun, biblical truth and Holy Spirit ministry into a curriculum that enables us to pick it up and deliver an impacting session, day after day.❜ Rachel Turner, Bible Reading Fellowship

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It was getting dark when a young couple working with a church in Lebanon called on a Syrian refugee family that had just arrived in Beirut. Ahmad, the father and breadwinner for the nine people sharing this squalid apartment, was overcome with tears when the couple handed him a food parcel saying it was a love offering from their church.

It was just a few simple items – some basic toiletries and a small basket full of food to share. But to Ahmad, this was a cause for tears of thanksgiving and gratitude.

He told the couple that his family had not eaten anything that day because they had no money.

Their sheer delight was partly because this was a gift – a compassionate welcome from local Christians wanting to share God’s provision with them. But also because having so little, this simple offering became an abundant feast for Ahmad and his family.

He said this was the second time they had received kindness and hospitality from the church. After his neighbourhood had been bombarded in Syria, a local church opened its doors to provide shelter for Muslim families.

The church was then bombed for housing these families. Ever since, Ahmad had thought about the love he had received and how these Christians had risked their lives for them.

Touched by all this kindness, Ahmad is now volunteering with the church and helping to provide food and aid to many other vulnerable refugee families in Lebanon like his own.

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eciding to follow Jesus is the biggest and best decision you’ll ever make. But what next? Matthew Porter explores how to live as disciples.

Do you know someone who had a life-changing encounter with Jesus but then their enthusiasm waned and they’ve since struggled with their faith? Perhaps it’s you? Do you know someone who is building ever-stronger foundations for a life following Jesus? The kind of disciple that changes churches, communities and nations?

Perhaps that’s you? Perhaps you want that to be you? Discipleship matters – and doing it better is high on the agenda for most churches.

How do I live?

After retirement as a doctor my father helped to pastor a growing Iranian congregation at his church in Doncaster. It started with one Iranian convert and after about six years they had baptised 120! Early on he told me that one of the newly baptised men asked him a question which took him by surprise: ‘Richard, I would like you to show me how to live.’ ‘What do you mean?’ my father replied. ‘I want to know how to live life.

I am now a Christian. What do I do? How do I read the Bible?

How do I care for my wife and family? What do I do with my money? How do I live?’

My father realised he’d got his work cut out! He needed to help him grow in discipleship.

Equipped for life

As Vicar of The Belfrey in York I stand on the shoulders of great giants of the faith who’ve led the church before me, most notably David Watson. After spending much of his ministry focusing on evangelism, at the end of his life David wrote a book with the simple title Discipleship. It’s probably his best and most enduring book. He had realised that it’s one thing to help someone make a profession of faith, but another to equip them for a life of discipleship. This was the motivation for my book, A-Z of Discipleship. We have a number of 18-30s at The Belfrey and are passionate to see them grow stronger in discipleship (the New Wine Discipleship Year is also one of the ways we do this as a church – see page 7). The aim of my book is to provide a simple, no-nonsense guide for a new generation of disciples who want to follow Jesus in the 21st century.

What we’re made for

So what is discipleship? It’s the daily practice of following and living for Jesus. Discipleship isn’t about occasionally doing something religious or spiritual, it’s being a full-time disciple: at home, at university, at work. It’s about going where Jesus goes, doing what Jesus does and saying what Jesus says. It’s a challenging but rewarding journey that’s stretching, exhilarating, tiring, energising and glorious. Discipleship is what we’re made for.

Our guide for discipleship is the Bible; that’s why it needs to be close at hand and read daily. Our helper for discipleship is the Holy Spirit; as we welcome his presence he leads us on a dynamic journey. Our community for discipleship is the church; it’s where we ask, discover, grow, give, share and learn how to be disciples.

The sign of discipleship is baptism; it’s the public declaration of our intent to be life-long disciples. The vision for discipleship is the kingdom of God; a place of no sin, sickness or suffering and what we pray and work for here on Earth as it is in Heaven.

Discipleship journey I recently led a church weekend away. We met a woman who was a new Christian who had only recently been baptised. She had a great story of coming to faith and was beginning to grow in her relationship with Jesus. She said she’d come from a difficult background and asked for prayer to deal with the baggage of her past and for bad sciatic back pain. We prayed first for her back and after a few minutes she said the pain had greatly reduced. We kept praying and five minutes later she was totally pain free and able to do many things she couldn’t before. She went to the front to testify and was so excited. God’s kingdom had broken into her life again – not just in her initial conversion and baptism but now in this healing. I prayed that the healing would give her faith for the further work the Lord wants to do in her life, as she continues on the journey of discipleship.

This lady is like most of us – we need help to continue to grow as disciples. This happens as we regularly encounter God in worship, Word, prayer and sacrament and through ongoing encouragement, discipline, forgiveness, faith, courage, hope and love – all in the context of a caring, missional local church.

‘God’s kingdom had broken into her life again – not just in her initial conversion and baptism but now in this healing’ Firm foundations

Discipleship normally starts with a simple decision to follow Jesus.

Later, a daily decision to keep going. Back that up with practical action and specific prayer and the foundations of faith will begin to form. That’s why every one of the short 26 chapters of A-Z of Discipleship end with an encouragement to respond – in action and prayer.

When Jesus ended his core discipleship teaching in the Sermon on the Mount, he wanted to encourage strong foundations to withstand the storms of life. He told a story about wise and foolish builders (Matt 7:24-28). It’s fascinating that both the wise and foolish have everything in common except one thing – their response. The foolish do nothing and find their lives are built on sand and they don’t last. The wise respond with intentional action and find they’ve built on rock. The response is the only difference between the two builders. One stands and one falls. We need firm foundations.

Discipleship matters.

Matthew Porter Matthew is Vicar of The Belfrey in York, a church with a vision to be serving God’s transformation of the North.  @matthewporteruk

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