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WELCOME
From your editor…
Hello and welcome to the first ever
edition of Preach magazine!
W
e have been dreaming and
planning and working for
months and are so excited that
we can finally reveal the fruit
of our labours. Whether you preach
every week, or once in a blue moon,
we are hopeful you will find plenty to
interest, inform and inspire you within
these pages.
Preach magazine was born from a
desire to better fulfil the mission
and objectives of the Leaders of
Worship and Preachers Trust
(www.lwpt.org.uk). These are to
support preachers and leaders of
worship through grants, information
and in particular, resources. In the
past, we’ve produced Ichthus magazine,
which contained some resources, but
also a lot of charity news that wasn’t
necessarily of wide appeal or relevance
to preachers. Ichthus continues to exist
as a charity newsletter, but all our
preaching content from now on will
be in this magazine and online at
www.preachweb.org.
Every issue of Preach will have a main
theme. Our first issue explores the
topic of creativity and innovation.
How can we stay fresh and interesting
in our sermons? How creative do you
have to get to communicate to your
particular context? What does the
recorded teaching of Jesus, arguably
WRITE
TO US
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EVERY ISSUE OF PREACH WILL
HAVE A MAIN THEME. OUR
FIRST ISSUE EXPLORES THE
TOPIC OF CREATIVITY AND
INNOVATION.
the best orator in history, tell us about
creativity in preaching? And just to
whet your appetite, the theme of issue 2
is ‘Preaching for the Planet’. We already
have some great contributors lined up.
I hope you enjoy the magazine. When
you are done with it, don’t forget to
recycle – or better yet, pass it on to
someone else who might find it useful.
COUNCIL OF
REFERENCE
David Bracewell – Zoe Ministry
(www.zoeministry.co.uk), author,
and previously Rector of Saint
Saviour’s, Guildford
Charlie Cleverly – Rector of Saint
Aldates, Oxford, author, and on the
New Wine leadership team
Andy Frost – Director of Share Jesus
International
Malcolm Duncan – Chair of the Spring
Harvest Planning Group, Senior
Minister of Gold Hill Baptist Church,
Founder and Director of Church and
Community, writer and broadcaster.
Ruth Gee – President of Methodist
Connexion 2013/14, Methodist minister
Richard Littledale – Baptist minister,
author and broadcaster
Mark Meynell – Associate Director,
Langham Partnership International,
author and cultural commentator
Ruth Valerio – Academic, activist,
author. Churches and Theology
Director, A Rocha UK
Preach resources, available in print
and online, are provided by LWPT.
Editor
Jo Swinney
Design
Adept
www.adeptdesign.co.uk
Jo Swinney
Editor
We’d love to hear from you whether it is
thoughts on the features, ideas for future issues,
experiences and inspiration about preaching, or
constructive criticism (please be kind – we are
humans with feelings!). You can write to us (see
right), email [email protected], or tweet us,
@preachmagazine.
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