SGP's Annual Conference was on Saturday 16th November 2024 at All Saints Church Crowborough.Our theme for the day was: "Heaven"As Christians we are to be fully engaged in this world and yet the Bible makes it clear that our citizenship is in heaven. What does this mean? How does the Bible describe…
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We enjoyed a great day looking at the book Making Faith Magnectic...Five Hidden Themes Our Culture Can't Stop Talking About... And How to Connect Them to Christ with the Author Dan Strange who is the director of Crosslands Forum.You can download the handout and listen to the four sessions (1…
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We enjoyed a great day looking at the book 12 Things God Can't Do.. and how they can help you sleep at night with the Author Nick Tucker who is Vicar of Bishop Hannington Church in Hove.You can download the handout and listen to the four sessions (1 hour each) by clicking on the audio links…
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We enjoyed a great morning with Rory Bell from TnT Ministries over Zoom, in March this year, thinking through the why and how of reaching every single child in our churches, including those with special educational needs. You can now watch the recordings and download the handouts by clicking on the
Continue reading…We enjoyed an inspiring, encouraging and very practical Partnership Training afternoon on Tuesday 3 November 2020 with Richard Borgonon from The Word One to One. Our regular students on the Sussex Ministry Training Course were with us in person, and many others joined on Zoom. Richard helped us…
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We were very pleased to welcome Martin Povey to speak at our Sussex Ministry Training Course on 12 February 2019 when over 30 guests booked to join our regular students for this special training day. Martin covered four areas and you can listen to the sessions and download his handout by clicking
We were delighted to welcome Helen Thorne to speak at our Ministry Training Morning on 11 July 2018. The experience of depression is not new, even if the label is a modern one. The psalmist confesses, ‘My tears have been my food day and night.’ He questions himself, ‘Why, my soul, are you…
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We had a great time together at Come and See 'Purely Preschoolers' with Rich Arnold and Sarah McQuaker on Saturday 23 June 2018. You can listen to the two audio files by clicking on the links below.
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We were really pleased to have a good number of guests join us last week for the Sussex Ministry Training Course 'Special Day'. Our Director of Training and Development, Nick McQuaker, took four sessions on the book of JOSHUA, and you can listen to these, and view the accompanying handouts, by…
‘Who are we?’ is arguably the most pressing question of our age. Rejecting the knowledge of God, we have lost the knowledge of ourselves. A crisis of human identity, unbridled individualism and confusion over our responsibilities have swiftly followed. More than ever, as Christians, we need a
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Rory Bell joined us again from TnT ministries to help us think through How we Teach Bible Narrative to Children and Young People. You can listen to the three talks, and download the handouts, by clicking on the links below.
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We were very pleased to have Rory Bell as our main speaker on Saturday 18 June 2016 at our 'Come and See' training morning for all those involved in leading and helping with children's and youth groups. Rory spoke about Pointing to Jesus in the Old Testament and Spiritual Development of Children
David Cook joined us for our Sussex Ministry Training Course 'special day' on 3 May 2016 to speak on 'Understanding and Teaching the Book of Acts'. We were pleased to have 25 guests join our regular students for this really helpful day. You can listen to the 4 sessions by clicking on the…
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Graham Daniels from Christians in Sport joined us for our Sussex Ministry Trianing Course 'special day' on 23 February 2016 to look at the matter of 'Frontline Evangelism' from another perspective and consider the huge potential. Graham then gave a talk on the same topic in the evening, at Bishop
Graham Daniels from Christians in Sport joined us for our Sussex Ministry Trianing Course 'special day' on 23 February 2016 to look at the matter of 'Frontline Evangelism' from another perspective and consider the huge potential. We were pleased to have over 20 guests join our regular students for
Rupert Bentley-Taylor joined us at the Sussex Ministry Training Course on 2 June 2015 when he expounded the books of Jonah and Nahum. We were very pleased to welcome over 30 extra guests who booked to join us and hear Rupert for this ‘special’ training course day. You can listen to the talks
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We had a great day with about 80 people from various churches. Glen Scrivener (Evangelist and Director of Revival) was our main speaker, followed by a choice of two morning streams and four afternoon seminars. The programme was as follows and three of the sessions were recorded - you can listen…
Musician's Breakfast and Masterclass Saturday 14 March 2015 The Rebirth of the Hymn Thank you for joining us on Saturday morning! Sadly for copyright reasons we weren't able to give out sheet music for all the hymns and arrangements we used. However, here are a selection of the resources we…
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An overview of Matthew's gospel given by Nick McQuaker at the SGP Summer School, July 2014.
Mark Ashworth came to our 'Come and See' morning for all those involved in teaching or leading children or teenagers on Saturday 1 March 2014. You can listen to the 2 sessions by clicking on the links below.
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Wednesday 10 July 2013, at Lindfield URC. Music in church life can sometimes seem like a blessing and a curse in equal measure! It can be a wonderful tool for gospel work, or it can spread confusion and cause division. How can church leaders make the most of music? This training day for…
On 4 June 2013, Nick McQuaker, SGP's Director of Training and Development, did a 'book in a day' on the Sussex Ministry Training Course, to help our students and guests for the day get to grip with the book of Judges. Exciting, challenging, puzzling, appealing, and at times repulsive, Judges…
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13 October 2012 at Christ Church Haywards Heath. 'Come and See' training mornings are for all those involved in teaching or leading children or teenagers. Rory Bell, Director of TnT ministries, joined us to help us get to the heart of reaching young people and children for Christ. You can…
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Thursday 14 June 2012, at All Saints' Church, Lindfield. Ray Evans joined us from Grace Community Church, Bedford, where he has worked for nearly 30 years and had the privilege of seeing the church grow from small beginnings to a church of around 400, and experienced the opportunities and…
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On 22 May 2012 John Stevens, Director of the Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches, was our guest lecturer on the Sussex Ministry Training Course. You can download the 4 handouts and listen to the recordings of sessions 2-4 by clicking on the links below. Regretabbly we do not have the…
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