inter:act twenty-eleven
10 Oct 2011 | admin | Posted in InteractNo Comments
Coming soon, to a venue near you… the inter:act 2011-12 team has started!
This year’s team sees Vicky Allen, Lindsay English, Cathy Gill, Kathy McFadzean, Robert Rattray, Ely Wapler and Jack Wilson get stuck into a huge variety of our missional expression communities across the city, whilst inter:act theatre students Stephanie Hazel and Kirsty Nicolson drama it up with Fiona Stewart at Foolproof Theatre. This team have committed a year of their life to God, wanting to grow to be more like Jesus. What heroes!!
The team started last week with a new full time week-long induction programme, exploring what it means to be a child of God, loved by their Heavenly Father. After that, the team comes together every Tuesday for teaching and training seminars, exploring how they can increasingly live as missional disciples. Alongside our own staff team here at mbc, we’re very blessed to have a number of outside speakers and pastors from across Edinburgh join us through the year to share this teaching programme. Tuesday also sees the team commit to growing together, with accountability groups, bible study, prayer and – of course – cake! (It wouldn’t be inter:act if there wasn’t cake….)
Applications for inter:act 2011/12 open
4 Mar 2011 | Kay Cathcart | Posted in InteractNo Comments
We all long to grow as Missional Disciples who:
- discover more of who God is
- increasingly live as we were created to be
so that we will:
- do what God says
- see transformation in ourselves, others, our city, nation and world
The inter:act gap year programme at MBC is a place which invests in that journey to bring lasting change.
The programme aims to:
- Help you deepen your relationship with God and others
- Discover your gifts, abilities and calling and put them into practice
- Provide teaching in formal sessions which will include Bible overview, practical theology and teaching on mission with an overall focus on application
- Provide practical training and service in a Missional Expression
- Encourage personal growth within team life, workshops, accountability relationships as well as the Missional Expression community
Are you committed to:
- knowing Jesus
- growing in your faith
- loving this city
- giving a year of your life
…then inter:act is for you
Previous inter:act team members speak of how their year changed them:
inter:act helped me to identify who God has made me to be and the gifts I have been given. This has enabled me to start living out of this identity and I am loving it! inter:act is an amazing year of both teaching and practical placements – I would recommend it for anyone who wants to learn more about God and how that affects every aspect of ife.
Put simply, for me it was an amazing opportunity to give God the space and time to speak into my life and to teach me how to love and do life with christian brothers and sisters. It also stretched me in all kinds of faith testing and building ways!!
inter:act kicks off
20 Oct 2010 | Kay Cathcart | Posted in InteractNo Comments
inter:act started its new year at the beginning of October, with 12 students on the course.
All are hungry to meet with God and receive from him. Many ministries across church life and the city are blessed by their involvement. On Tuesdays we gather for seminars, team life, supervision and study – a full day of learning and engaging with God’s word and meaty subjects which affect every day living.
Please pray for these guys as they step out in faith. Some still need part time jobs, others are stepping into brand new areas of ministry, most simply long to see God do a significant work in them and through them this year.