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May 2010 Report
launching our 20:20 vision
Much of my time is spent speaking at conferences in the UK and around the world, yet there is something special about the quarterly teaching conferences we have been holding in Bromley over the past three years. I love the opportunity for providing so much Bible teaching in just a few days and it is always great to meet those of my partners who are local enough to be able to join us in South-east London.
This May the conference theme was Government and the People of God and we had a great time learning up-to-date lessons from the interaction between Joseph and Pharaoh. It also proved to be an ideal opportunity to launch our 20:20 vision in person and on-line.
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Government and the People of God conference
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20:20 Vision -
the powerpoint launch
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20:20 vision
In Acts 20:20 the apostle Paul says ‘I kept back nothing that was helpful’ and that is the basis of my 20:20 vision too. My aim is to have 2 million leaders, believers and enquirers in Africa and Asia accessing free online Bible teaching by 2020. It is a big vision and we have already made an amazing start. Do check the 20:20 vision section of the website where we give regular progress updates.
The Christian Resources Exhibition
This is a significant event in the UK church calendar and once again this year Churches in Communities (the international network for independent churches and ministries that I set up in 1997) held The Ministers’ Fellowship as part of the events programme. We also held a joint event with Premier Christian Radio (who broadcast my leaders’ programme every Saturday at 2pm). I and other panel members looked at some of the challenges we face with legislation in the UK – an interesting follow-up to my Government and the People of God conference the weekend before.
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The Premier Christian Radio panel at the CRE
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Hugh answering audience questions
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Living in two worlds
Twice during May I was in the north of England – the first time to speak at a leaders’ event in Newcastle in readiness for the Fresh Focus conference we will be holding there at the beginning of September and the second to take a church weekend conference. Community Church Killingworth had booked a hotel in Scarborough for a Friday to Monday conference. It was a wonderful weekend of fellowship and Marion (who had already had a busy month launching her new book) was able to join me. Outside the teaching sessions, whilst Trevor kept fit running the cliffs, Marion and I walked the bays. It was thirty-two years since we had last been in Scarborough and the contrast between the town’s two coastal bays had stayed in our minds. Our walk confirmed that little had changed in thirty-two years – the north bay as quiet as ever, the south as a bustling resort. Two different worlds just a few meters apart!
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Scarborough - North Bay
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Scarborough - South Bay
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Marion signs copies of her new book at the book launch
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With the speed of international travel today, it sometimes feels as if Europe, America, Asia and Africa are just a few miles apart and that anyone can live in two worlds at one time. For me it is a case of having my heart constantly in a whole range of different locations: Nigeria, Pakistan, Uganda, Barbados, Northern Britain, Tanzania, Southern Britain, Malaysia, and the list goes on! It is great that our praying and giving can so easily bring disparate parts of the world together.
Do stay in touch.
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