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Contents:
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Going to the people of London 1835 – 2010
(175th anniversary year of the London City Mission) (view pdf)
Cover illustrations key words: rookery, Ayah’s Home for Indian servants, Harleston Hall, Brixton, sewing group at Departure
Iain MacDonald is recuperating following eye-surgery. This issue of Changing London has been prepared by a team of the LCM’s staff
Our first 175 years
John Nicholls writes that it is a time for thanksgiving and serious re-dedication (view pdf)
The Mission has experienced many difficult times in its long history – and the most recent one has been one of the toughest
The redundancies following closed ministries were extremely painful
The next chapter will give greater emphasis on seconding missionaries to churches and church-planting teams, and new ministries in partnerships with the Metropolitan Police, Care Home providers and others working among ethnic minorities
We will be celebrating “London City Mission Sunday” on 16 May and having a major Thanksgiving Service in the autumn
The church in Bonny Downs
How the City Mission is assisting church-planting in East Ham (view pdf)
100 years ago Charles Howe started Bonny Downs Baptist Church. Its current leadership team is assisted by two seconded London City Missionaries, Andrew Hewett and Ben Clark
In 2009 the Church began a church-plant called Bonny Downs North, based in the Bobby Moore Sports Pavilion
In a class of its own
A report on schools work in Southwark by Ania Cannon, a schools worker in the Bermondsey area of Southwark (view pdf)
Other members of the schools work team are Peter Kendrick and Rosemary Haslam
Ania visits a school near the Mission’s Webber Street Homeless Centre and runs a lunch club together with the other members of the Bermondsey Christian Centre team: Matt Lofthouse, Teresa Syczuk and CV Sarah Newton
Ania has taken some classes to the “Street Level” event organised by Phil Moore and Rosemary Haslam at LCM HQ
A call to prayer
Alan Black, Director of Training and Mentoring, spells out some crucial priorities (view pdf)
Sheep without a shepherd throughout the centuries
Jules Gomez, one time chaplain to the Royal Naval College in Greenwich, speaks of his experiences of wearing a clerical collar
The races set before us
Christian witness around the London Olympics by David Linley (view pdf)
David, who has been in charge of the Mission’s planning for outreach to the 2012 Olympics, has been seconded to “More than Gold”, an organisation that is co-ordinating the response of churches and Christian organisations to the London Games
More Than Gold is recognised by LOCOG, the London Games organisers
LCM has three Hard-Hat Chaplains (Neil Kinghorn, Marlene Botha and John Hamilton) who minister among 20,000 construction workers on the East London Games site, the Olympic Athletes Village and Westfield shopping complex
London City Mission 1835 – 2010
Making history – saving people (view pdf)
Photographs and narratives from the LCM archives
Bethnal Green, the mission hall ministry of John Galt
London Docks, the ministry of George Gillman to foreign sailors
For more information please refer to Streets Paved with Gold by Howat and Nicholls and Radcliff Highway and Wapping Old Stairs; 1859-1913 by George Gillman, an unpublished manuscript
West Croydon – football, life and death
In 2009 Luke Mansfield was asked to take over the leadership of the Mission’s Centre in West Croydon, where he had been working as assistant to Steve Downe (view pdf)
Steve is now chaplain to railway staff and British Transport Police in south London area
In the summer there was the annual football academy, linking up with the nearby Selhurst Evangelical Church
Karen Millar, on the CV gap-year scheme, provides valuable help in the weekly football academy. Karen is also working with Ambassadors in Sport
Attention to detail
Small steps that contribute to the advance of the gospel from the reports of Patrick Coleman, Steve Downe, Imtiaz Khan, Alick Stewart and Steve Dunn (view pdf)
A passion for life
Matt Cresswell describes the Passion for Life initiatives, organised by the Gospel Partnerships, in which London City Mission is involved (view pdf)
Typical events include having someone such as evangelist Rico Tice or Roger Carswell to speak at an after dinner talk, jazz night or sports event
The God Confusion taking place at the ExCel centre in Docklands will be a combination of both the London Men’s and Women’s Conventions
Tim Keller will be joined by Al Stewart and Rico Tice
Other participants across the country are: David Cook, Ruth Naomi Floyd, Liam Goligher, Jacques Imbrailo, Bishop Frank Retief, Philip Jensen and Dan Walker
For more information visit http://www.apassionforlife.org.uk
From Kyle to the Cross
Donald Stewart, originally from Kyle of Lochalsh, describes his work at King’s Cross (view pdf)
His cousin Jamie, also with the Mission, played a part in his conversion as did Roddie Rankin the minister of Kyle Free Church of Scotland
Donald sensed God calling him to the Mission after hearing Basil Norgate speak
He currently serves as a church-attached missionary with King’s Cross Baptist Church
Mission News
Please pray for those who left the Mission at the end of November 2009: (view pdf)
Catherine Adams, Terry Allen, Sarah Baker, Laura Crane, Maurice Kenny, Jo Orzechowska,
Gareth Owen, William Randall, Michael Sleath, Dominic Squibb, Nick Stead, Atsu Tettevi, Karen Washington, Stuart Wilson, Bernhard Wölffel and George Zammit
Colin Dyer and Ernie Heron have retired
A Prayer Workshop with John Smed will be held on two days in March
Lynne Hornett describes her recent study period in the USA
Obituary to James Cunningham “Jimmy” Whyte
Mission teams at London City Mission
Answers to five questions concerning bringing a team to work with London City Mission (view pdf)
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