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Speakers and Seminar Information<br />
Ian Wills<br />
Seminar speaker<br />
Ian has been the minister at Parkhead Church of the Nazerene in Glasgow for 16 years.<br />
Growing a Missional Church<br />
(Friday | 2pm | Church)<br />
Helen Brough<br />
Seminar speaker<br />
Mark Stirling<br />
Seminar speaker<br />
When we are aware of the missional opportunities and challenge before us but also of many church<br />
communities struggling to engage effectively, we are faced with questions of how to see change and<br />
transition. Come hear a story of how a traditional church was enabled to transition to one which is fully<br />
engaged in its community.<br />
Helen is on the <strong>Forge</strong> Scotland leadership team and is based in Dundee where she is developing Lattice<br />
– a missional networked community reaching women on the margins. Helen has also been facilitating a<br />
network of missional pioneers and church planters from those who've completed the Invest Course.<br />
Mark Stirling leads Cornerstone St Andrews, a new church committed to equipping God's people to live<br />
and speak the Good News in every sphere of life. Mark also works with the Navigators and leads the<br />
European Leadership Forum Disciple-making Leaders Network.<br />
Discipleship<br />
(Helen Brough & Mark Stirling|<br />
Saturday | 9.30am | Kirk Lounge)<br />
"Go and make disciples" is a verse we are familiar with, but we as the church struggle to do effectively.<br />
Mark Stirling and Helen Brough help us to reflect on the theology and practice of making disciples in the<br />
21st century.<br />
Shona Stirling<br />
Seminar speaker<br />
Shona works at Whiteinch Church. Before Shona worked for 3 years in Newmains developing a fresh<br />
expression of church built around Children and Families.<br />
Wholeness for the Vulnerable &<br />
Broken<br />
(Helen Brough & Shona Stirling|<br />
Friday | 2pm | Blythswood)<br />
What does discipleship look like with those on the margins of society, whose lives are so full of potential<br />
but as yet blighted by circumstance, illness and wounds from the past? Helen Brough and Shona Stirling<br />
share principles and practice from living alongside, working with and learning from those on the<br />
margins.
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