CRAIG MITCHELL
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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...
Missional Church Leadership – Week 1
Prepped for my first class tomorrow on Missional Church Leadership at Uniting College for Leadership & Theology.The unit can be studied as part of an undergraduate degree or at post-grad level, such as part of a Grad Cert in Leadership. We have students from SA,...
Spirit of Creation – Sheet Music
We've just made available the sheet music for "Spirit of Creation" - an excellent resource for the Season of Creation. Written by myself (words) and Leigh Newton (music), the song picks up the theme of the Spirit groaning in Romans 8 and relates it to the plight of...
Luke 10 through a Doorway
Recently I preached on Luke 10 at my local church. It was also communion Sunday. The text has been popular among mission writers in recent years, The lectionary uses verse 1-11 and 16-20 and leave out some awkward words about judgement... I asked a retired builder in...
New Song – To the God of Life
I have two little projects on the go. One is to try to write some short songs of blessing or sending. The second is to take some of the texts from my Deeper Water worship book and turn them into songs. It requires some additional work on the texts, but I'm trying to...
Resources: Preparing for Baptism & Confirmation
Here is a page of resources from my recent Diving Deep workshops about preparing older youth to adults for baptism and confirmation. There are workshop notes, Uniting Church resources, and link to a bunch of resources from Australis and overseas. Some are free and...
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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