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 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...
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...
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