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Meet the team
Bob & Mary Hopkins
 18 years ago, Bob & Mary Hopkins pioneered Anglican Church Planting Initiatives
which they continue to lead.
Alongside this, Bob & Mary are now part-time members of the Archbishop's Fresh
Expressions Team led by Steve Croft. They are also working in partnership
with CMS for a mission movement.
They were involved in an inner urban church
planting team from '83, developed a YWAM church planting and leadership school
from '89 and helped start and resource the Anglican Cell Church movement from
'95. They are on the team for Re:Source which is an interdenominational course
for youth and young adult church planters. Bob & Mary served from 1998 to 2005
on the leadership team of St Thomas' Church, Sheffield with some 1500 in
attendance and mainly reaching young adults and emerging culture. Bob helped St
Thomas' develop a discipleship process called Lifeshapes and this is now being
taken out nationally and internationally. They also helped set up, and are
members of, the newly launched Order of Mission (TOM).
Bob was a consulting editor to the group which produced the Mission Shaped
Church Report in Feb '04. With a Lincolnshire inter-denominational team, Bob &
Mary are helping with a Mission-shaped Leadership Course which is in the process
of adoption nationally as a regional Fresh Expressions 1 Year Training.
Freddy Hedley
 Freddy
is Team Co-ordinator, and has been a part of the team since June 2005. His role
includes heading up the admin team, as well as contributing to the wider
ministry of ACPI, with particular focuses on cell church, clusters, resourcing
and training events.
Outside of ACPI Freddy is a member of St Thomas’ Church, Sheffield, where he
leads a Missionary Congregation (cluster) and is in the process of planting a
new Cell/Cluster in south Sheffield. In addition to this he is co-leader of
Covenant, an emerging national network church, is a part of the 'ibis' worship
group, and is on the leadership team of the Scripture Union Beach Mission at
Sheringham, Norfolk.
Freddy is husband to Ali, father to Maisie, and a long suffering Derby County
supporter!
www.freddyhedley.blogspot.com
Jude Stone
 Jude has been with the ACPI team for
four years -
initially three days a week whilst
part of Form, a training year at St Thomas', then casually during his University
course and now two days a weeking managing the accounts, website and IT. Outside ACPI, he
also works for a media company, is an overall leader on a CYFA Ventures camp
and leads a missional community as part of St Thomas', Philadelphia.
Bruce & Colleen Mounsey
 Bruce & Colleen worked with Bob & Mary in St Helens from '88 to '92. They
helped pioneer the training and consultation processes of ACPI. Colleen is
trained as a spiritual director and Bruce pastored a very successful church
in Gisborne for many years. They came from New Zealand to rejoin the team in
March 2006. They are available for consultation and hope to be involved as
teachers and catalyst on the new generation of missional leader training.
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Ordained Pioneer Ministry guidelines -
download your copy!
The Fresh Expressions website is full of resources
for those involved in church ministry. Amongst other resources -
guidelines for Ordained Pioneer Ministry are available for download
here.
Lambeth Gathering - Podcast
Over 40 candidates for ordained pioneer ministry
gathered at Lambeth in October 2007 for a one day consultation with
Archbishop Rowan and each other. Listen to the Archbishop's address
here.
Job opportunity: Carptenters Community
Church
Associate church of St Andrews are seeking a full
time youth pastor to work with church and youth in the community. (Job
Page)
Watchnight Prayers - Live Video stream for
churches
Archbishop Rowan and Methodist President Martin
Atkins will lead "Watchnight Prayers for Mission & the nation" on New
Years Eve 2007. All churches will be able to get a video link for use in
Watchnight events.
National Anglican Church Planting Conference
2007
This conference was a great success at the start of
October 2007 looking towards 'Hope for the future'. The recordings and
accompanying PowerPoints are now online for those who missed out or want
to re-listen to the sessions. Click here
Is planning "Old Hat" for church planting
and Fresh Expressions of church?
Bob Hopkins explores the conflicting values of
planning vs the organic development of church plants and fresh expressions
of church. Click here
Homogenous Unit Principle Paper
This paper by the Lausanne Committee for
Evangelism has now been published to the articles section of the
website. This is of particular reference to those on a Mission Shaped
Ministry course. Click here
New Job Listing
Pioneer training opportunity with youth / families
in Mansfield. Click here for more information
Cluster book
Bob Hopkins & Mike Breen explore the concept of
mid-sized expressions of church - clusters, as a way of radically
reconfiguring and recovering truly biblical congregations in their latest
book. Click here for more details,
and to purchase.
Mission Audit
This new section of our website seeks to meet the
need for the increasing importance of new and up to date Mission Audit
resources - including the new booklet 'Listening for Mission' released
October 2006. (Click here) |
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