CRAIG MITCHELL
Welcome to my blog and portfolio. I’m an educator, facilitator, author, multimedia maker, event curator, church worker, musician, researcher and culinary explorer.
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New Sheet Music
I've added a couple of newer songs for sale as sheet music for the Advent/Christmas season. Make a New Way is based on the cry of John the Baptist but set in Australia. Written with David MacGregor. Blessed Night, Blessed Light which explores God being present in...
Missional Church Leadership – Weeks 9 and 10
Leadership and Change Week 10 of our unit for Uniting College for Leadership and Theology continued the theme of Leadership and Change. We revisited Luke 10: 1-20 and spent time talking about Lectio Divina as a four part process. We then looked at the Five Marks of...
Missional Church Leadership – Week 8
Week 8 of our unit for Uniting College for Leadership and Theology was the first of two sessions on Leadership and Change. Of course there is a plethora of material on both, and people can do whole units on each of these topics through the College and University...
Missional Church Leadership – Week 7
Week 7 of our unit for Uniting College for Leadership and Theology was about Forms of Missional Leadership. Yes, I had some of my collection of Disney, Pixar and Aardman characters on the table as people arrived. The first part of the session was a reflection on John...
Missional Church Leadership – Week 6
Week 6 of our unit for Uniting College for Leadership and Theology was about Forming Disciples in Mission. This was the focus of my doctoral research, so I warned them up front that the class might take a couple of days. During the afternoon I screened two video...
Missional Church Leadership – Week 5
Week 5 of our unit for Uniting College for Leadership and Theology was about Context and Culture. What does it mean for the church to see that the "mission field" is here and not in some foreign land. So I actually do a hypothetical where I get people to imagine that...
Featured Resources
VIDEO & DISCUSSION SERIES
Video Series
Our Faith: Christian Beliefs in the Uniting Church
Six short videos produced as a national learning resource for the Uniting Church in Australia. A range of church leaders – local, state and national – open up Christian beliefs about God, the Bible, the Church and God’s Mission. Discussion guide and activity resources for groups here.
“Here is a book of invitations to deeper water – to open a strange story and live in its pages, to learn to sing a new song in a different land, to be seared by a burning bush, to board a weathered boat and push out into the depths.”
Deeper Water: Resources for Immersive Worship