‘Multiply’

We are excited to be gathering again, as a Salt & Light Advance family of churches, for our 2023 leadership conference: Multiply, hosted by the Salt & Light Advance team.

God has called his family to grow and multiply! We are called to impact the world around us in a major way, not staying on the margins or simply maintaining the status quo. And while many churches are still feeling diminished from the impact of Covid, without a shadow of a doubt, new life is coming, bringing new birth, and new church plants.

Multiply is for all those in our churches in Christian leadership in the church and beyond. The teaching, together with time to encounter God, will equip, inspire and renew us in building cultures that foster health and multiplicative growth in our churches.

Guest speakers

Colin Baron was due to be our main speaker. Colin founded multi-site church Christ Church Manchester, The Broadcast Network and is part of the Newfrontiers Together apostolic team. Unfortunately, at late notice, Colin is unable to join us for personal reasons, and we are delighted that his colleague Tim Simmonds (leader of Christ Church Manchester, and on the Newfrontiers Catalyst team) will be speaking instead.

Rachel Jordan-Wolf (Evangelical Alliance and Talking Jesus), and Sheridan Voysey (author and broadcaster) will also be joining us for the seminars and workshops in sessions 3 and 4.

Booking

Bookings are now closed.

Programme

Saturday

10.00am Door open for registration and 10.30am start

10.30am-12.30pm Session 1: worship; talk: Steve Jones

Lunch

1.45-3.15pm Session 2: talk: Tim Simmonds; worship/response

Free time (including networking opportunity for evangelists, 3.30-4.15pm)

Refreshments

4.30-5.30pm Sessions 3: choice of workshops and seminars

• Talking Jesus: what people think of Jesus, Christians, and evangelism in the UK today (Rachel Jordan-Wolf)

• Making friends: how to make friendship flourish in an age of loneliness (Sheridan Voysey)

• Church and site planting: Lessons from Tim Simmonds (Christ Church Manchester)

• Young adults: How Lifehouse started to gather younger adults, Mark and Katherine Eley (Advance team)

5.45-6.45pm Session 4: Choice of workshops and seminars:

• Talking Jesus (repeat, as above)

• Prayer and mission: Cultivating prayer that fuels mission, Bev Jones (Advance team)

• Market towns: How church works in smaller communities, Neil Townsend (Advance team) and Jo Bray (Henley)

• Reflective worship: An hour of led worship in the prayer room, Andy Bruce (Wantage)

7.15-9.00pm Session 5: Celebration dinner

Sunday

9.00am Doors open for 9.30am start

9.30-11.00am Session 6: Panel Q&A about church planting

11.30am Session 7: worship; talk: Frog Orr-Ewing.

• This session will be livestreamed for our churches, to enable leaders to enjoy the conference.

• We will take an offering which will be split 50:50 for two important purposes:
  (1) a ‘seed fund’ to which local churches can apply to help with startup funding for multiplying development and innovation across our family of churches
  (2) for the Turkey-Syria earthquake appeal - we will be sending funds to trusted churches in those nations, via the Catalyst (Newfrontiers) family of the churches.
  Please come prepared to sow generously, as you are able. Give here!

1.00pm Lunch

2.00pm Session 8: brief reflection time in your teams

2.30pm Closing session 9: worship; talk: Steve Jones

4.00pm End

Venue and practicalities

This event is being hosted by Oxford Community Church and The King's Centre in Oxford, as our event in 2022 proved to be accessible to a much wider range of people than have historically been able to attend leaders’ conferences.

There is free parking on-site. Lunch and refreshments are provided on both days, and dinner on Saturday.

In order for the conference to provide retreat and refreshing for participants, there no provision for children on-site. Rather, we encourage parents to make arrangements with family and friends.

Overnight accommodation can be booked at various price-points in various hotels and guesthouses around the city. More info here.

Event resources

Video recordings (sessions in the Thames Hall) are on our Youtube channel.

For full session recordings (worship, prophetic words, announcements plus talk) please visit us on Vimeo

Colin Baron and Tim Simmond’s book Multiplanting.

Testimony (Jacques Gay, Wildfires 2022) https://youtu.be/sTJWhnhkd6c

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