Working Together: Smarter not Harder

Arriving in Northumberland to the most glorious sunshine, I was looking forward to the theme of our time together, ‘Working Together: Smarter Not Harder’. CMN represents and achieves many good things through working together and I know we are all keen to see how we can develop this further. During our time together each denominationContinue reading “Working Together: Smarter not Harder”

Creating safe and healthy church cultures

As our media fills up with stories of abuse and coverups within religious organisations, it was very timely that children and family ministry denominational leaders met to discuss ‘Safeguarding’ at the Children’s Ministry Network Conference November gathering at High Leigh Conference centre. Justin Humphreys, CEO of thirtyone:eight, led us through the thorny landscape of spiritualContinue reading “Creating safe and healthy church cultures”

Meeting Ministry Essentials

As someone who has moved from Children’s Ministry into Family Ministry and having been a ‘sleeping partner’ in the CMN for the last 7 years, reading the emails ‘for information only’ but not responding to them, I was delighted to be invited by TSA’s formal representative Jonny Whitmore, to partner with them on the NetworkContinue reading “Meeting Ministry Essentials”