Fresh Expressions in MK

I had a good meeting today with Tim Clapton, Peter Ballentine and Keith Beech Gruneburg. We had arranged to meet to discuss possible plans for the encouragement of Fresh Expressions in Milton Keynes. Although we still have a lot of work to do, we have mapped out a rough plan of campaign:

1. Vision Day: We're going to try to organise a vision day with the national team in November. This would provide us with an opportunity to enthuse on a large scale.
2. Mission Shaped Intro: We're hoping to organise two hits of this course; once in the spring before Lent, and once in the summer term. These should give us an opportunity to explore Fresh Expressions and Pioneer Ministry with interested people.
3. Mission Shaped Ministry: We aim to host a year-long course for practitioners - ideally starting in September 2009. This will be invaluable as support for those who are getting stuck in.

This is all very exciting! We hope to float this at the next Mission Partnership Exec and ask for a Planning Group to be commissioned as an ecumenical Project Group. This is a very achievable project which should have enormous value for our work in MK.