This year's Men's Retreat was once again hosted at the beautiful Ashburnham Place. 40 SGP Ministers enjoyed a good time of fellowship together. Rupert Bentley-Taylor spoke on TRANSFORMING GRACE - encouraging hearts with two expositions from Titus on the glorious gospel of God's grace.The 2 talks are
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Mark Redhouse (SGP Chair), and Minister of All Souls Eastbourne) gave an excellent, encouraging and challenging exposition of Titus 1-4. It's well worth listening to! You can access the audio file by clicking on the link below.
The theme for our meeting was:PARTNERSHIP IN THE GOSPELJon Hobbs (SGP Associate Trainer, and Minister of Grace Church Haywards Heath) gave an excellent, encouraging and challenging exposition of 2 Timothy 4:6-22 on the theme of Partnership in the Gospel. It's well worth listening to! You can…
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Our theme for the morning was ‘A Preaching Reset’.The call to the Pastor-Teacher is to preach the Word. Yet maintaining our passion for preaching and the priority of preaching can be hard at the best of times. Let alone under lockdown, when many of us are preaching to camera, disconnected…
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In our first session Nick McQuaker, SGP Director of Training and Development, gave an exposition of Revelation chapter 12.In our second session John Steven's, National Director of the Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches (FIEC), spoke on Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 crisis,…
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An exposition of Psalm 90 given by David Jackman at our second Partnership Meeting of 2020, via Zoom, during the COVID-19 lockdown.Click here for the YouTube link, or you can listen to the audio file by clicking on the link below.
Phil Moon preaching at our first Partnership Meeting of 2020 on ‘Living Godly Lives in a Pagan Society’ from 1 Peter 2:11-25.
The theme of our Autumn 2019 Partnership Meeting was 'Praying Pastor and Praying Church', and James Clarke led our first session.Following this, we spent our second session hearing of prayer needs from each of our Cluster Groups, before praying together. You can listen to James by clicking on the…
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The theme of our Summer 2019 Partnership Meeting was 'Staying Faithful'. Andrew Cornes gave us a challenging exposition on the theme from 1 Timothy. In an extended interview with Jon Hobbs, James Russell spoke candidly about a difficult time in his life and ministry and the lessons he learnt from…
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We were really pleased to welcome Ed Drew from Faith in Kids to speak at our recent Partnership Meeting. Ed gave us two biblically informed, stimulating, informative, challenging and encouraging sessions, to help us think afresh about the ministry of the local church to children and young people…
We were really pleased to welcome Justin Mote to speak at our recent Partnership Meeting. Justin encouraged us and stirred us up to work together towards fulfilling our SGP vision of a growing gospel church in every Sussex Community. Justin was instrumental in the formation of the North West…
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We were really pleased to welcome Roger Hitchings from Pilgrims' Friend Society to speak at our recent Partnership Meeting. Roger spoke at both our morning sessions and you can listen to the talks by clicking on the links below.
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Nick McQuaker spoke from Exodus 14. You can listen to the sermon by clicking on the link below.
John Stevens, National Director of the Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches, and church pastor, joined us to help us think through how we can be prepared for church trends and theological and contextual challenges in the next 20 years. Talk 1 focussed on the Theological…
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We were very pleased to welcome Mark Redhouse, Vicar of All Souls' Church, Eastbourne (SGP Partnership Church) to speak at our Partnership Meeting about Prayer. You can listen to the two sessions with Mark, and an interview with James Clarke, by clicking on the links below.
Neil Powell speaking first on 'A Gospel Vision for Church Planting' and then on 'Gospel Courage - helping a church take the next steps in church planting.' Neil is one of the Pastors of City Church in Birmingham and co-founder of 2020 BIRMINGHAM which is ‘a coalition of churches and…
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We enjoyed and benefitted from hearing Richard Coekin on our theme of 'Developing Leaders' at our May 2016 Partnership Meeting. Richard Coekin is the Director of Co-Mission, a growing church planting network, largely centred on South West London. To quote, John Stevens (National Director of the
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Kevin DeYoung joined us for our meeting at Cuckfield Baptist Church on 3 February 2016 to speak about 'The Hole in our Holiness'. You can listen to the two sessions by clicking on the links below.
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SGP Partner, Michael Wilcock, spoke at our meeting on 10 June 2015, about 'Staying Fresh through a long ministry' and gave us six lessons. You can click on the link below to listen to Michael.
Kanishka Raffel joined us from Perth, Australia, where he is Rector of St Matthew's Anglican Church in Shenton Park. Kanisha expounded 1 Corinthians 8 to 10 on the theme of Freedom and Gospel. You can click on the links below to listen to the two audio files and see the talk headings on the…
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Carl Beach joined us for this meeting. Carl heads up Christian Vision for Men (CVM), an international evangelistic men's movement focused on introducing men to Jesus and equipping the church for the task. Carl has spoken to thousands of men in the UK and overseas, encouraging them to live for…
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Nick McQuaker (SGP Director of Training and Development) expounds Ezekiel 37:1-14, considering the reality of the situation we face, our task to prayerfully preach the gospel word and the mighty power of God by his Spirit to raise the dead! The second session recording includes a report by Nick…
Andy Paterson (Mission Director for the Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches) expounds Acts 17:16-34 and then talks about church planting, outlining the benefits of church planting and some of the models for doing so.
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Our focus for this meeting was on evangelism, through the local church and in partnership, with a particular view to working together in A Passion For Life (AP4L) 2014 – a nationwide mission initiative following on from AP4l 2010. Glen Scrivener (an SGP partner based in Eastbourne and serving as…
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At this meeting we considered how we can work together to strengthen and expand gospel ministry in Sussex. In particular, we focussed on maximising the benefits of local partnership through geographical cluster groups. Nick McQuaker expounded the scriptures in the first session, looking at the…
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David Cook, former Principal of Sydney Missionary and Bible College, joined us to speak on ‘Reaching the unreached locally.’ You can listen to the two sessions by clicking on the links below.
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Our focus at this meeting was Ministry Trianing Schemes. Click the links below to listen to Philip Coekin speaking from 2 Timothy 1:1-7 on 'The centrality of the Gospel to the local church' and James Packman giving a presentation about Ministry Trainees.
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Click the link below to listen to Eric Harmer speaking about Church Planting.
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