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Thursday Oct 29, 2020
Thursday Oct 29, 2020
Dr Siegfried Ngubane is the Serving in Mission's (SIM) Regional Director for Southern Africa. Siegfried is a well known African church leader and holds a PhD in Missiology and an MA in Missions. His passions are Discipleship, Leadership Development and Mentoring.
Serving in Mission - https://www.sim.org/home
Thursday Oct 22, 2020
Thursday Oct 22, 2020
Ruth Box works for Pioneers UK as their Mission Mentor for Scotland. Pioneers UK is an organisation that resources and equips missionaries to take the good news of Jesus Christ around the world. They have more than 3000 international missionary members, working in 324 missions teams, in 104 countries, among 202 unreached people groups, mobilised from 10 international missions bases.
Presented by David Meredith
Title Music and Production: Simon Kennedy
Tuesday Oct 13, 2020
Tuesday Oct 13, 2020
Dr David Kirk is Lecturer in New Testament Studies at Highland Theological College (HTC). He teaches modules on the Degree programmes dealing with New Testament texts and theology, as well as contributing to other modules. He began his academic career in January 2018 when he joined the faculty at HTC. He was awarded his PhD in New Testament from the University of Aberdeen in 2015, with his research and supervision undertaken through HTC. Prior to his doctoral studies, David graduated in 2010 from the Theological Studies programme with First Class Honours.
He holds Masters degrees in both Aeronautics and Transport from Imperial College, London and worked for several years on transport policy and planning for government bodies. He has been involved in Christian ministry for three decades, and is an ordained minister of the Free Church of Scotland. Before joining the faculty at HTC he served as an Assistant Minister, and as a member of the Free Church Mission Board.
Presented by David Meredith
Title Music and Production: Simon Kennedy
Thursday Sep 24, 2020
Thursday Sep 24, 2020
We talk all things mission today with Janet Murchison and Sarah Lytle from Women for Mission.
Women for Mission was established over 100 years ago to promote the growth of the Christian faith by encouraging interest in mission as well as giving practical support to the Church’s mission work in Scotland and around the globe.
Official Site: https://womenformission.org
Presented by David Meredith
Title Music and Production: Simon Kennedy
Thursday Sep 17, 2020
Thursday Sep 17, 2020
Paul Levy is married to Claire, father to Noah, Ellie and Phoebe. He has been the minister of International Presbyterian Church (IPC), Ealing in West London since 2003.
International Presbyterian Church
Paul's Blog - https://ealinglevy.wordpress.com
Topics:
- Are youth groups effective?
- Are buildings important?
- Reformed evangelism - where has it gone?
- Preaching - passion or rhetoric?
- Raising a child with Down's Syndrome
- Dealing with the temptation to compare your ministry with another
- Worship Philosophy
Presented by David Meredith
Title Music and Production: Simon Kennedy
Thursday Sep 10, 2020
Thursday Sep 10, 2020
Steve Levy is the senior Pastor at Mount Pleasant Baptist Church in Swansea. He is married to Clare and they have three children.
Today he chats with David about children's ministry, church leadership, revitalisation, local mission and evangelism.
http://www.mountpleasantchurch.org.uk
Presented by David Meredith
Title Music and Production: Simon Kennedy
Thursday Aug 27, 2020
Thursday Aug 27, 2020
Elijah and Jessie Brook are working with Cornerstone, a church plant in Edinburgh's Morningside, and a transatlantic missional partnership program called AT3.
Cornerstone - https://cornerstone-edinburgh.com
AT3 - http://at-3.org
Presented by David Meredith
Title Music and Production: Simon Kennedy
Thursday Aug 20, 2020
Thursday Aug 20, 2020
On the podcast today David sits down with Sleat and Strath Free Church minister Gordon Matheson.
They chat through what it's like to grow up as a 'pastor's kid', losing a parent, politics, rural ministry, mental health and mission.
Gordon also recently launched his own podcast called 'Free Voices' - https://www.podbean.com/eu/pb-ztkfy-e5b68e
Presented by David Meredith
Title Music and Production: Simon Kennedy
Thursday Aug 13, 2020
Thursday Aug 13, 2020
Malcolm McGregor is the associate director for pastoral care working through one aspect of the Langham Partnership.
Malcolm and his wife Liz have worked in the mission field around the world through the mission organisation Serving In Mission (SIM). Malcolm became the UK and North Europe Director for SIM in 1996 based in London. Then in 2003 he took up the position of International Director of SIM based on the edge of Charlotte in North Carolina.
Malcolm and his wife attend Carrubbers Christian Centre in the heart of Edinburgh on the Royal Mile.
Presented by David Meredith
Title Music and Production: Simon Kennedy
Thursday Jun 25, 2020
Thursday Jun 25, 2020
New Testament lecturer Rev. Dr Alistair Wilson joins us today to chat about local and international mission and theological famine relief.
Alistair has a PhD in New Testament studies from the University of Aberdeen. After graduating from the University of Edinburgh and the Free Church College, now Edinburgh Theological Seminary (ETS), Alistair was an Associate Pastor in Inverness before moving to Highland Theological College where he taught New Testament from 1996 to 2005. He was then appointed to Dumisani Theological Institute, King William’s Town, South Africa, becoming Principal in 2006. Alistair returned to Highland Theological College in January 2015 before taking up his current post as lecturer in New Testament and Mission at ETS.
As well as having written several published works, Alistair has been Editor of The Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology and New Testament Review Editor of Themelios. He is an Adjunct (‘Extraordinary’ in South African terminology) Professor of New Testament in the Research Unit for Reformed Theology, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa. He is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a member of the New Testament Society of South Africa.
Dr Wilson's research interests include missionary thought and activity in early Christianity, 'missional readings' of Scripture, Matthew’s Gospel, Luke’s Gospel, Colossians and Philemon, eschatological views in early Christianity.
Presented by David Meredith
Title Music and Production: Simon Kennedy