Resources and downloads from Connected for Purpose

Martin Goldsmith's lectures

CDs will be available soon. Please contact the European office for pricing and ordering: european@saltlight.org

Monday

• Plenary session: Strategic issues as we engage in God's mission
  Steve Thomas (Salt & Light)
  • session summary notes (PDF)
  • powerpoint
• Workshop W1: To partner or not to partner (issues in long-term sending)
  Bryan Knell (Global Connections)
  • powerpoint
  • church-agency comparison table (PDF)
  • additional papers from Global Connections exploring church-agency relations (link)
• Workshop W4: Sent - or did you just go? (handling the call of God to 'go')
  Keith Elmitt (Oxfordshire Community Churches), with B&M (a young missionary couple)  
  • session handout (PDF)
  • handout: preparing to go - guidelines (PDF)
• Workshop W2: Short-term or long-term? (thinking long-term in short-term mission)
  John Russell (Soapbox Trust) with Keith Elmitt (Oxfordshire Community Churches)
  • session summary notes (PDF)
  • session powerpoint
  • session handout (PDF)
  • handout: short term teams checklist (PDF) 
  • handout: short term teams leadership guidelines (PDF) 
  • link: Global Connections code of best practice for short-term missions
  • flyer: Soapbox can support your church in short-term mission (PDF)

Tuesday

• Workshop W3: Generous gift or paternalistic problem? (finance in aid, relief and development)
  Vic Gledhill and Mark Harland (Walsall Community Church)
  • session summary notes (PDF)
  • session handout (PDF)
• Workshop W5: 'Aliens' or 'friends' (working cross-culturally in the UK)
  
  • link: Research document looking at the Miripuri community in England (the majority of the Pakistani people here are from Miripur). Contact Culture Connect in Bradford, kcarlton@culture-connect.org.uk
• Workshop W6: To return or not to return? (the place of Israel in God's mission purposes)
  Martin Goldsmith and Steve Thomas
• papers from the 2000 international council meeting (including Steve's)
• recommended books (two opposite views!)
• Whose Promised Land?: The Continuing Crisis Over Israel and Palestine, Colin Chapman, ISBN13 978-0745951119
• The Land of many names, Steve Maltz, Authentic, ISBN 1-86024-287-1