Evangelism Task Group

The aim of the Evangelism Task Group is to encourage and enable people in our diocese to proclaim afresh in every generation the good news of Jesus Christ in partnership with all Christians.

The ETG is involved in a variety of evangelistic endeavours:

Yorkshire Church on Show
Higher Sports
Back to Church Sunday
Fresh Expressions

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Evangelism Strategy

The Evangelism Strategy , 2010-1012 was adopted by Diocesan Synod in June this year. It offers an overview of the initiatives and projects the group is seeking to support and promote. Please click on the link below and use this with your church councils and groups

The Evangelism Strategy

Exploring Evangelism - becoming disciples of Jesus Christ: Questions for your church

Bishop James Bell writes:

TO PROCLAIM AFRESH….JESUS CHRIST

That’s the core of the aim of the Evangelism Strategy adopted a few days ago by our Diocesan Synod. Synod could hardly have declined to adopt it! It is lifted straight from the Declaration that is made by every ordained minister in the Church of England – at ordination and on taking up each and every appointment.

What will encourage and enable us to get to grips with that calling, to deliver our ‘core business’? It seems to me that is a question that might need to be asked before we ask any other questions or do any other business. In the next few months, PCCs and congregations will be offered some more questions that could usefully be asked, like:

What would our wider community miss if we weren’t here?

How are people helped to grow spiritually here?

James Bell

July 2010.