APEST
About
Rooted in Scripture, ‘APEST’ helps people to identify and explore their own dominant and sub-dominant calling and function in relation to Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist, Shepherd, and Teacher. Also, how that enables any expression of Church and the Body of Christ to fulfil their latent potential and reach maturity.
resources
• 5qcentral.com
• newbreedtraining.com
• masterclasses.ephesiology.com/courses/ apest-intelligence
• The Forgotten Ways: Reactivating the Missional Church, by Alan Hirsch
• 5Q: Reactivating the Original Intelligence and Capacity of the Body of Christ, by Alan Hirsch
• Activating 5Q: A User’s Guide, by Alan Hirsch
• The Pulse of Christ (Revised and Expanded): A Fivefold Training Manual, by Nathan Brewer Read
• Various APEST Training courses via Teams run internally
Core Recovery
About Core Recovery Church is a network of communities supporting people to explore spirituality in recovery, whether that recovery is from addictive habits, health or life situations. It is very much a trauma-based approach and one that works in a person-centred way.
provide support with setting up and running Core Recovery communities including guidance, resources, training and our prayer network, Heartbeat.
Family Ministries
Intergenerational Church
About
The Family Ministries team explore the challenge of creating a truly intergenerational Church.
Intergenerational ministry nurtures Christ-centred community by engaging two or more generations to be mutually invested in serving, sharing, worshipping and learning.
We can help you explore what the fruit of intergenerational ministry could be in your corps and help you discover how life is fuller when shared with people of different generations.
Podcasts
• Being an Intergenerational Church, by Suzi Farrant and Darren Philip
• A Gospel for all Ages: Teaching and Preaching with the Whole Church, by David Csinos
• It Takes a Church to Raise a Parent, by Rachel Turner
• Grandparenting for Faith, by Becky Sedgwick
• Happy Families
• Get Owt • Jump In • Intergenerate UK
engageworship
Refocus Ministry
• familyministries@ salvationarmy.org.uk
• rachel.gotobed@ salvationarmy.org.uk
Fundraising
Divisions and Corps Working with
Sinek:
About
Everything we have belongs to God. We are called to follow God’s example to live a generous life.
Explore how the Philanthropy Team and Community and Membership Fundraising Team can support new projects in your corps, division or service.
Learn about what makes an attractive fundraising project and what you need to give us so we can do great things for you, your project, and the people you serve!
Intercultural Ministry
About
Intercultural Mission explores the practice of intentionally reaching out to people from other cultures and integrating ourselves into a community, entering one another’s multifaceted cultures. We help prepare for opportunities to act interculturally within your community, support corps in exploring the benefits of diverse interactions, and explore with you the different ways of interacting with other cultures, as becoming intercultural becomes a way of being.
• Anglican Network for Intercultural Churches
• Gather Movement
• Intercultural Church and City Transformation
– Learning Journey • One People Commission
Read
• Oxford Journal for Intercultural Mission
• Building Cultural Intelligence in Church and Ministry, by Osoba O. Otaigbe
• An Intercultural Church for a Multicultural World, by Martyn Snow, Lusa Nsenga Ngoy, Saju Muthalaly, Jessie Tang, Florence Gildea
Justice and Reconciliation
About
Seeking justice and reconciliation is an essential part of God’s mission. The Salvation Army is committed to expressing this at a local, national and international level.
Explore what seeking justice and reconciliation looks like in your corps – whether that be community organising, as the Army drives forwards campaigns, or engaging with politicians to speak up for the voiceless through the Public Affairs Unit’s work. We all have a part to play.
Podcasts
Tools
• The Difference Course • The Influence Course
Read
Justice
• Living Right While Righting Wrong: A Salvationist Theology of Protest, by Wendy Swan
• Generous Justice, by Tim Keller
• Embracing Justice, by Isabelle Hamley
Reconciliation
• The Power of Reconciliation, by Justin Welby
• No Future without Forgiveness, by Desmond Tutu
More resources
• Mission in the Margins Conference talks
• Marching Towards Justice
• International Social Justice Commission Connect
• nick.coke@ salvationarmy.org.uk
• andrew.connell@ salvationarmy.org.uk
• public.affairs@ salvationarmy.org.uk
Find us on salvationist. org.uk
Local Officer Training
About Local Officer Training is an opportunity both to grow in faith and serve your community more effectively through deepening your skills and understanding in leading specific ministries. You can explore leading worship, preaching, and the transformative journey of discipleship and spiritual formation.
Read
• The Big Idea Companion to Preaching and Teaching, by Matthew D Kim, Scott M Gibson
• How to Preach, by Sam Wells
• Sacred Rhythms, by Ruth Haley Barton
• Dwelling in the Word, by Pat Taylor Ellison and Patrick Keifert
More resources
• Resources, articles, sermons, art and film ideas all organised according to the lectionary readings but also a Bible verse index: textweek.com
• Find Open Learning courses on salvationist.org.uk
Missional Journal
About
Every expression of Salvation Army ministry is on a journey. What we record and learn from our journey, past and present, is important if we are going move forward in the right direction together.
The Missional Journal is an invitation to every corps to engage in journaling that journey with God and with each other. It is an invitation to understand God’s own mission, to map read with the gospel, and have good conversations and accountability in our ministry today.
Videos
Chris Wright talks on mission, our role in God’s story and why preaching the whole Bible matters
Read
• The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible’s Grand Narrative, by Christopher JH Wright
• The Mission of God’s People: a Biblical Theology of The Church’s Mission, by Christopher JH Wright
• Missional Church, What Does God Look Like?, by Nigel Rooms
• Forming a Missional Church, Creating Deep Cultural Change in Congregations, by Nigel Rooms and Patrick Keifert
• Introducing The Missional Church: What Is It, Why It Matters, How to Become One, by Alan J Roxburugh and M Scott Boren
Missional Toolbox
Natural Church Development
About Natural Church Development and Natural Character Development include resources and processes to support churches, groups and individuals to apply God’s growth principles. Healthy organisms grow when the conditions are suitable and the all-by-itself growth potential of the organism is released.
The church survey, books and tests are all oriented around the eight Discipling Areas identified by NCD in its global research in over 100,000 settings in 70+ countries.
NCD General Video with Major Chris Rideout and Bill Bickle
What is Fordelm? Church Health and Restorative Practice, an introduction Authentic conversations in Holistic Small Groups
Connect
• Bill Bickle, Fordelm, NCD UK and Canada, bill.bickle@salvationarmy.org.uk
• NCD UK and Canada at fordelm.com
More resources
• fordelm.com/shop
Pioneering
About
Pioneers can be officers, territorial envoys or employed spiritual leaders. It is paramount that we seek to encourage and resource new ways of being The Salvation Army for this present age in many different and varied contexts.
Everyone is called to pioneering, but not everyone is called to be a pioneer. If you think God is calling you to pioneer a new expression of The Salvation Army, whether that be in pubs, through choirs, in forests, or sporting communities, explore further!
Godsend, by Michael Moynagh
All Change, by Rich Robinson
Forgotten Ways, by Alan Hirsch
Becoming a Whole-Life Disciple-Making Church
About
How do we cultivate churches that equip disciples that are confident in who they are, what they’re doing, and making a difference where they are every day?
The Church we need today is a Monday-to-Sunday Church that is making a difference for God in all the places we find ourselves every day of the week.
Tools
• Vital Signs Online Assessment Tool
Read
• Vital Signs, by Ken Benjamin
• Imagine, by Neil Hudson
When It’s Just Us
Videos Connect
• Steve Rouse – Church Team Director at LICC, steve.rouse@licc.org.uk
• The London Institute for Contemporary Christianity
Care for Creation
About
How can we effectively care for creation in a world where we are seeing the devastating effects of a warming world?
If we all pull together, and share the message, we can make a difference individually and corporately.
Let’s explore how to tread lightly and honour, protect and re-thrive our God-given home.
Read
Tools
• WWF Footprint Calculator
• The Collaborative Carbon Calculator for Churches, Synagogues, Charities and Small Businesses • 360°carbon.org
More resources
• Eco Church
• Creation Care Find us on salvationist. org.uk
Connect environment@ salvationarmy.org.uk
• Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World, by Katharine Hayhoe heather.poxon@ salvationarmy.org.uk