Sharing Jesus doesn’t have to be complicated…

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This post includes more pictures from the simple idea I had of asking people to ‘stand on hope’- an idea I shared in my last blog.

The context of the idea is that once a month on a Sunday morning I work alongside a local Baptist Church to be among the majority of people who wouldn’t consider ‘going to church.’ I call this Saints on the Street, (St St) My hope is that more and more Churches up and down the UK would cancel some of their services in the year, or use their Services creatively to be and meet in public.

This months St St was so simple, but as you will see by the pictures there were a lot of interaction, conversation and questions asked as to why we were doing what we were doing.

I find that when people engage with the theme, and ask questions about…

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Pastor Katy has enjoyed ministry at New Covenant since 2010, where the church has solidified its community focus. She now works at Capital CFO plus as the Non Profit Director. All opinions expressed on this blog are her own and do not reflect those of Capital CFO plus. Prior to that she studied both Theology and Christian Formation at Princeton Theological Seminary. She also served as an Assistant Chaplain at Trenton Psychiatric Hospital and as the Christian Educational Coordinator at Bethany Presbyterian at Bloomfield, NJ. She is an writer and is published in Enfleshed, Sermonsuite, Presbyterian's today and Outlook. She writes prayers, liturgy, poems and public theology and is pursuing her doctorate in ministry in Creative Write and Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. She enjoys working within and connecting to the community, is known to laugh a lot during service, and tells as many stories as possible. Pastor Katy loves reading Science Fiction and Fantasy, theater, arts and crafts, music, playing with children and sunshine, and continues to try to be as (w)holistically Christian as possible. "Publisher after publisher turned down A Wrinkle in Time," L'Engle wrote, "because it deals overtly with the problem of evil, and it was too difficult for children, and was it a children's or an adult's book, anyhow?" The next year it won the prestigious John Newbery Medal. Tolkien states in the foreword to The Lord of the Rings that he disliked allegories and that the story was not one.[66] Instead he preferred what he termed "applicability", the freedom of the reader to interpret the work in the light of his or her own life and times.

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