Thanks to the web design genius and generosity of Mr. Simon Patterson of the Valley Church, New Breed now has its own website. It’s by no means the finished article as, amongst other things, we hope to be adding a social networking facility on there. However it still looks great and we’re so grateful to Simon for all his work on it. God bless you boss.
You can find the site at: www.newbreedcp.net
Unfortunatey due to lack of numbers Highfields has had to pull the plug on the Network Plus course that we were due to be teaching on this year. While we’re obviously a bit gutted, we’re also grateful to have a little bit more time to focus on other stuff, including making Jump School as awesome as possible.
We’re so grateful to Highfields for being willing to work with us on something like Network and there’s a strong chance that we will revist working in partnership with them on similar projects in the future. For now, however, we’re happy to focus on what’s directly ahead – starting with the first Jump School sessions tonight.
Only a few weeks left now until New Breed’s first Jump School kicks off and we can’t wait! We’re going to be spending most of tomorrow sat in Starbucks meeting fellow Jumpers who have enrolled for Jump School, getting to know them and hearing their hearts.
Can’t wait!
Jump School is going to be a proper good laugh, with the emphasis on chewing over the Word together and establishing strong gospel relationships with each other. We’re even going to do some abseiling…blind-folded! (I’m not kidding!!!)
Here’s how the programme’s going to look:
Friday
Saturday
If you haven’t signed-up it’s not too late – get in touch now!
If you have, see you on the 18th!
Defo…
With New Breed’s first Jump School launching in September, we get a full 2 days off before we start teaching the Church-Planting stream of Highfields Church’s Network Plus course. We have been asked to teach for all 3 terms of the brand-new, 30 week course, with ourselves doing 20 weeks of teaching and Highfields doing a further 10 weeks of apologetics, alongside Skilful Shepherds (Christian Leadership) and Digging Deeper (Bible Exposition).
Anyway, here’s how it’s going to look from a New Breed Persective:
Term 1 – Biblical (Sep 22-Dec 1)
Term 2 – Missional (Jan 12-Mar 23)
Term 3- Radical (Apr 28-Jul 6)
If you’re interested in finding out more about the Netowork Plus course, please contact Highfields Church. You can access the Network pages of their their website here.
Hi guys just a super-quick post to inform you that the date for the first New Breed Jump School has been pushed back a week. It’s now scheduled to be held on Friday 18th-Saturday 19th September at the original venue – the Long Barn in Ceredigion.
It promises to be an awesome weekend of networking, worshipping, equipping and joy – so make sure it’s in your diary. We’ll be posting more details about the exact make-up of the weekend really soon. In the meantime feel free to get in touch with us if you’d like to know more, or to confirm your intention to attend.
Peace
Okay, so they don’t just let you jump out of an airplane with a backpack on.
You gotta know how to use the flippin parachute! Plus, you need your mates.
New Breed is officially launching it’s first Jump School on September 11th -12th in the Long Barn, Ceredigion. Free up your schedules, and look out for the application forms in your email-box within the next week or so. Here it is again…
Date: September 11th-12th 2009
Where: The Long Barn – Ceredigion, Wales
Cost: 25 Pounds (coz we know you’re all broke church-planters)
Keep an eye on the two other dates for the year: January 15-16th , April 23rd – 24th 2010.
This week Dai and I kicked it New Breed style at the Acts 29 Western Europe Church Planting conference. Our heads were buzzing with ideas about church planting (and the invention of the “Coffee man” who brings lattes to your front door every morning). Perhaps that last bit was just me when my mind wandered after my brain got full.
The guys from Acts 29 laid out a theoretical framework for church-planting over the course of 4 days, and discussed a wide range of related topics. For those of you who went along from New Breed, we hope it laid a foundation in your thinking that will be built upon in the September session of Jump School. Jump School will have more of a practical emphasis and will kick off with a solid BIBLICAL basis for church planting with examples from the early church. From there, it will follow onto our other two foundations of church planting: being MISSIONAL and RADICAL.
For those of you who were there, who showed potential for church-planting, we know who you are now…you’ve been tagged. We’re keeping an eye on you as we finalize details for Jump School in September. Look forward to hearing from us soon.
- Peyton
Me and Peyton are at WEST this week at a church planting conference with new Steve Timmis (new Director of ACTS 29 Western Europe) and David Fairchild (Pastor of Kaleo Church, San Diego).
It’s been a cracking conference so far and we’ll post some final reflections at the end of the week. However, it’s fair to say that we have both already been stretched, challenged and encouraged, as have most of the guys who have been there. We had an especially good time as we got to chat with Steve and David over lunch, during which time we shared the vision behind New Breed. Not only were they very helpful in what they said to us, they also expressed a desire to explore a working partnership between New Breed and ACTS 29.
Buzzin!
Suffice to say we hope to be posting some stuff about that in the near future.
Happy Days!
Awesome news!
Following lengthy conversations and a great deal of prayer, New Breed can now confirm that we will be joining forces with Highfields Church and heading-up the church-planting and evangelism stream on their new Network Plus course, starting in September.
Network is a theological training course that has been running out of Highfields on Tuesday mornings for around 5 years now, with many having attended and been deeply impacted (including myself!)
Network Plus is a new second year option that will run on Tuesday afternoons, offering 3 further streams on Church Planting & Evangelism, Leadership, and Bible handling. Both courses will run for 30 weeks, comprising 3 terms of 10 weeks each. We will be doing around 2/3 of the teaching in our stream, with Network staff and a few other guest speakers set to teach the rest.
As you might imagine, we’re MASSIVELY excited about this, though hugely humbled too! Please pray that we will play our part in delivering a stimulating and strategic course that will both honour the Lord and inspire the saints.
If you’re interested in attending Network, please let us know and we’ll get in touch.
God bless you.
As promised, here’s the audio from the New Breed Cofference. Hope you enjoy it. Feel free to post your comments and questions…
Session 1 – The Journey So Far (Peyton Jones)
Session 2 – New Breed Mission Statement (Dai Hankey)
Session 3 – Two Punks and a Logo (Peyton Jones)
