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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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...
Missional Church Leadership – Week 4
So this week at the Missional Church Leadership course at Uniting College for Leadership & Theology we explored missionary ecclesiologies. This started with a pile of one-sentence David Bosch quote cards from Transforming Mission, Chapter 12. We then worked...
Missional Church Leadership – Week 3
So this week in Missional Church Leadership class at Uniting College for Leadership & Theology we started exploring (a) what might be missional practices (yes, a debatable distinction) and (b) God's call to dwell in a place, which seems counter-cultural these...
Missional Church Leadership – Week 2
Week 2 of the Missional Church Leadership class at Uniting College for Leadership & Theology explored Christian practices as an expression of growth is discipleship and participation in mission.This is a theme to which we will be returning sevral times during the...
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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