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Speakers and Participants

Date Added: Tuesday 25th March 2008

Speakers and seminar leaders on 7th June will include:

	The Right Revd John Pritchard - Bishop of Oxford Bishop John will introduce the day and conduct opening worship
	The Right Revd Stephen Cottrell - Bishop of Reading Bishop Stephen will lead a talk on What evangelism is today
	Stephen Croft - Archbishops’ Missioner and team leader of Fresh Expressions. He is a co-author of Emmaus: the way of faith and has many years experience of helping churches think creatively about evangelism Stephen will lead the seminar Nurture Groups - the role of nurture groups in the journey to faith and discipleship.
	Yvonne Richmond - Yvonne is Canon for Mission at Coventry Cathedral where she heads up the youth and family work, enquirers courses and mission to tourists, and where congregations are growing. Author, conference speaker and board member of Fresh Expressions she has a passion for helping Christians engage with the opportunities for mission in the UK today. Yvonne will lead the seminar: Spiritually Aware? - seeing what God is doing beyond the fringes of Church and joining in.
	Janet Russell - Parish Development Adviser "enthusiastic about helping people to live and share their Christianity
	Ian Macdonald - Diocesan Youth Adviser, Loves spending time with teenagers and believes we have a lot to learn from them
	Yvonne Morris - Oxford Diocese Children's Adviser, passionate about small people discovering Big God who loves all His children. Ian Macdonald and Yvonne Morris will lead the seminar: Children & Young People - sharing faith with young people / children
	Andrew Gear - Parish Development Adviser for the Buckingham Archdeaconry Archbishop Rowan's quotation that "Mission is finding out what God is doing and joining in" has breathed new life into my understanding about what the local church is called to be and to do - to listen to God more attentively and look with God's eyes at the people and activities in our communities. Seminar leader for Rooting living faith in the Parish After the excitement and energy of today, some practical "what next" thinking that you can take back in your local church? Some questions we need to think about are: who else needs to be involved and how do we get more people on board? do we need to form a team? how do we root prayer at the heart of what we do? who are the people we might want to reach?