The Co-Mission Podcast

Today we'll hear Part 2 from a talk by Carolyn Lacey at Co-Mission Women's Day this year. We're praising God that over 500 women gathered from around London to hear God's word, worship together, and listen to an encouraging talk. The topic this year was "REAL REST".  Thanks to all the ladies behind the scenes who helped make Women's Day happen. 
Within each of us is a deep longing for rest, but it often feels far out of reach. Our culture tells us we must strive to earn the rest we seek, but Jesus invites us to lay aside our striving and come to him. He alone offers real and lasting rest that will satisfy our weary souls. In our two sessions, we will see how Jesus fulfils our longing for rest and how he equips us to live and serve out of the rest we find in him.
Carolyn lives in Worcester with her husband, Richard, and their grown-up children. Richard is thelead pastor of Woodgreen Evangelical Church, and they have served in pastoral ministry together for22 years. Carolyn works part-time as Woodgreen’s Women’s Worker and regularly teaches atwomen’s events and conferences. In her spare time, she enjoys writing, running and readinghistorical fiction.
 
To find out more about the ministries of Co-Mission, visit us at co-mission.org

Today we'll hear Part 1 from a talk by Carolyn Lacey at Co-Mission Women's Day this year. We're praising God that over 500 women gathered from around London to hear God's word, worship together, and listen to an encouraging talk. The topic this year was "REAL REST".  Thanks to all the ladies behind the scenes who helped make Women's Day happen. 
Within each of us is a deep longing for rest, but it often feels far out of reach. Our culture tells us we must strive to earn the rest we seek, but Jesus invites us to lay aside our striving and come to him. He alone offers real and lasting rest that will satisfy our weary souls. In our two sessions, we will see how Jesus fulfils our longing for rest and how he equips us to live and serve out of the rest we find in him.
Carolyn lives in Worcester with her husband, Richard, and their grown-up children. Richard is thelead pastor of Woodgreen Evangelical Church, and they have served in pastoral ministry together for22 years. Carolyn works part-time as Woodgreen’s Women’s Worker and regularly teaches atwomen’s events and conferences. In her spare time, she enjoys writing, running and readinghistorical fiction.
 
To find out more about the ministries of Co-Mission, visit us at co-mission.org

After a longer than expected holiday break, We're back with another episode in our series on planting. In this one, we meet with Alex Brito from Mosaic Multicultural to talk about his move from Brazil to become a pioneering church planter in Elephant & Castle.
 
You can visit their website which has links to their social to find out more and keep up with how you can be praying: www.MosaicMulticulturalChurch.org
 
This is a monthly series on planting that dives a bit deeper into the heart of why Co-Mission exists: To plant and revitalise churches to reach London for Christ. In this series, Richard Perkins "Perks", the director of church planting, heads out to churches around the city to chat with the pastors and planters to get a sense of the church in that area and hear the stories of God bringing together a group of people to accomplish his purposes. We'll also talk with people from like-minded organisations here in London who have a heart to see the gospel shared across the city.
 
For More Information on the ministries of Co-Mission, head to www.Co-Mission.org and do reach out to us via email at Media@Co-Mission.org 

We're back with another episode in our new series. In this one, we meet with Sam Gibb from Hope Church Vauxhall to hear about the joys and complexities of getting stuck in with a new church plant at Vauxhall Garden Estate.
 
You can keep up to date with Hope Church at their website: Hope Church Vauxhall 
You can find their Facebook page here:  Hope Church Vauxhall | Facebook
 
This is a new monthly series on planting that dives a bit deeper into the heart of why Co-Mission exists: To plant and revitalise churches to reach London for Christ. In this series, Richard Perkins "Perks", the director of church planting, heads out to churches around the city to chat with the pastors and planters to get a sense of the church in that area and hear the stories of God bringing together a group of people to accomplish his purposes. We'll also talk with people from like-minded organisations here in London who have a heart to see the gospel shared across the city.
 
For More Information on the ministries of Co-Mission, head to www.Co-Mission.org
To reach our media team, email Media@Co-Mission.org
You can keep up to date with Hope Church at their website: Hope Church Vauxhall 
You can find their Facebook page here:  Hope Church Vauxhall | Facebook
 

In this first episode of our new series, we talked with Matt Dew-Jones from Grace Church Beckenham and head how this church plant was restarted during the pandemic to reach the people of Beckenham. 
This is a new monthly series on planting that dives a bit deeper into the heart of why Co-Mission exists: To plant and revitalise churches to reach London for Christ. In this series, Richard Perkins "Perks", the director of church planting, heads out to churches around the city to chat with the pastors and planters to get a sense of the church in that area and hear the stories of God bringing together a group of people to accomplish his purposes. We'll also talk with people from like-minded organisations here in London who have a heart to see the gospel shared across the city.
 
For More Information on the ministries of Co-Mission head to www.Co-Mission.org
To reach our media team, email Media@Co-Mission.org

We're introducing a new monthly series on planting that dives a bit deeper into the heart of why Co-Mission exists: To plant and revitalise churches to reach London for Christ. In this series Richard Perkins "Perks", the director of church planting, heads out to churches around the city to chat with the pastors and planters to get a sense of the church in that area and hear the stories of God bringing together a group of people to accomplish his purposes. We'll also talk with people from like-minded organisations here in London who have a heart to see the gospel shared across the city.
 
For more information on the ministry of Co-Mission, visit www.co-mission.org

In this episode, we’ll hear from Alex Lyell, pastor at Streatham Central Church, on the important topic of being generous for the city. Whether we have a little or a lot, It’s clear from scripture that what you do with your money is an indicator of where your heart is. In this episode, Alex talks about how to be a good steward and even entrepreneurial with our money and our church’s money with eternity in mind.
Also, check out our friends over at www.kingdom.bank to find out ways you can give your money a mission. They're a regular bank with a gospel mindset.  They help churches and ministries get off the ground with mortgage help and more. 
 
For more information on the ministries of Co-Mission, go to www.Co-Mission.org

In the UK, there are roughly 80,000 children in care, with 10,000 of them being in London. What shall we do about this heart-breaking injustice? How can we represent our Father’s heart for the fatherless in our city? This week we hear from Andy Mason, Pastor at St. John's Chelsea. We'll look at the wonderful, challenging, life-changing reality of adoption! We promise to be compassionate but not sentimental about what is involved. The content will be practical, honest, straightforward, encouraging and hopeful. This is for those supporting adopters, prospective adopters (however theoretical!) and actual adopters and will involve input from a variety of people.
 
For more information on the ministries of Co-Mission, go to www.Co-Mission.org

This episode is on the topic of "Dating In The City". In an age of love Island and casual dating apps, what does God think about dating? We might be tempted to think that because the bible doesn’t specifically mention dating, He has nothing to say about it. But the bible is full of wisdom that applies.  In this episode, Pastor Matt Fuller and Liz Hayden from Christ Church Mayfair dig into how that wisdom applies to dating in the city.  
For more information on the ministries of Co-Mission, go to www.Co-Mission.org

This episode is on the topic of "Identity In The City". In the ever-present search for meaning and purpose, our culture has increasingly become self-obsessed and continually grapples with self-identity.  Especially when Identity in Christ and having an eternal perspective is a foreign concept to so so many. In this episode, Glynn Harrison, Christian Psychiatrist and former Department head of Psychiatry, University of Bristol, examines How we can prepare ourselves and our kids to interact with that cultural turbulence around us and how Christianity can tell a better story to those searching. 
For more information on the ministries of Co-Mission, go to www.Co-Mission.org