Urban Expression

Super excited about the start of another Black Light course this evening! So good to be working with @AscensionTrust to create space for honest conversations, learning, lament & new friendships between black, white & brown people. Still time to register: tickettailor.com/events/blackli…

Les Isaac @AscensionTrust invites you to join in the Black Light Course starting 4th May online. bit.ly/3N5hgmL

And it’s only because all these people and all their situations matter to you that we are here at all. Bless us Lord, we pray. 5/5

As the summer holidays approach, does this mark a time of rest or activity for you/ your family/ team? A prayer from UE's daily liturgy focusing on "creativity": We realise that God’s Spirit blows freely and so we will not assume our work should continue indefinitely.

But in all that we do, and in your mercy Lord help us to hear your voice saying ‘Well done, my good and faithful servant.’ because when times are hard we need to know that this matters to you. 4/5

What we do is all yours. You are our guide, our leader, our protector, our nourisher. You build up and you tear down. Help us not be so attached to what we do that we miss your voice saying ‘Enough!’ or ‘Move on’. 3/5

Help us to see our lives in seasons when there is a time to sow and reap to plant and establish to harvest and enjoy to prune and wait. 2/5

Living God thank you that you don’t leave us simply maintaining ways of worshipping ways of meeting ways of being your people but that your invitation is to an abundant, overflowing life. 1/5

Thinking of folks loving, caring for & walking alongside their neighbours who are constantly up-against it and feel ignored or silenced. God sees us all. God is for us. #GodWelcomesUsFirst

Interesting podcast on calling and vocation, how they relate and change, and our “universal” call. Where does “converted” to a place or vision fit? 🤔 #convertedtothemargins podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/ups…

"Busyness is the enemy of #spirituality. It is essentially laziness. It is doing the easy thing instead of the hard thing. It is filling our time with our actions instead of paying attention to God's actions. It is taking charge." (Eugene Peterson) #SubversiveSpirituality

Is Christendom dead? And if it is - does it matter? What is good about post-Christendom? First weekend of new look Crucible course in London. #pioneers #guineapigs? #artytraining

#StFrancisOfAssisi day today and @prayasugo highlighted Job’s name for God as redeemer “the one who releases hostages”. So many people hostage to so many things in our world today. We pray and act for freedom. #peace #lettherebelight

“Let the churches stop trying to outstrip each other in the number of their adherents, the size of its sanctuary, the abundance of wealth...let us compete to see which can move toward the greatest attainment of truth, the greatest service of the poor...” #MLK

Thinking about “becoming human” this February @cruciblecourse. Digging into how God invites us into becoming more human. Great to have new people joining us. #imagoDei #fullyalive

Finally sitting down with my tea & stroop waffel. Thanks Dutch friends! So great to hang with UE friends this weekend. #family #Jesuspeeps

Children are part of Urban Expression! #ue20

Pionieren en vriendschap! Happy heading home. #ue20

Stuart Murray: 'Much church planting in '90 was triumphalistic. 'We know it'. We wanted to be different. 'We don't know it'. #humility #ue20

All set up for the next session - talking about who we live with and around!