{"id":2455,"date":"2019-02-26T11:45:05","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T11:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/utusheffield.org.uk\/?p=2455"},"modified":"2019-02-26T11:45:05","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T11:45:05","slug":"march-forum-church-policy-in-sheffield-with-john-vincent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utusheffield.org.uk\/2019\/02\/26\/march-forum-church-policy-in-sheffield-with-john-vincent\/","title":{"rendered":"March Forum: Church Policy in Sheffield with John Vincent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0SPRING FORUM SERIES 2019:\u00a0What makes a good city? Series 2\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>The Revd Dr John Vincent\u00a0on\u00a0\u2018Church Policy\u00a0in Sheffield\u2019<br \/>\nwith\u00a0the Revd Nick Jowett\u00a0as respondent and\u00a0the Revd Phil\u00a0Borkett\u00a0as chair\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wednesday 13 March: 12 &#8211; 1.30pm All welcome!<\/p>\n<p>As recounted in their book Inner City Testament (2017), John and Grace Vincent began their mission in inner city Sheffield nearly 50 years ago in the early 1970s. Since then, there have been huge changes both in the city and in its churches. John will reflect on the changes in church policy over this period.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0free,\u00a0short lunchtime talk by a carefully selected and well informed speaker, followed by a \u2018respondent\u2019,\u00a0who will give a short commentary (up to five minutes) on the main talk,\u00a0before the subject is\u00a0thrown open to the whole group for questioning\u00a0and reflective discussion.<\/p>\n<p><em>Seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the LORD on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare.\u00a0Jeremiah 29:7\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>UTU\u2019s library area in the basement of Victoria Hall Methodist Church, Sheffield (entrance in Chapel Walk).\u00a0Bring your own packed lunch. Tea and coffee will be available.<\/p>\n<p>Enquiries to Jill, UTU administrator 0114 2709907\/office@wordpress-1151684-4277157.cloudwaysapps.com<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=TheologyUnion\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0SPRING FORUM SERIES 2019:\u00a0What makes a good city? Series 2\u00a0 The Revd Dr John Vincent\u00a0on\u00a0\u2018Church Policy\u00a0in Sheffield\u2019 with\u00a0the Revd Nick Jowett\u00a0as respondent and\u00a0the Revd Phil\u00a0Borkett\u00a0as chair\u00a0 Wednesday 13 March: 12 &#8211; 1.30pm All welcome! As recounted in their book Inner City Testament (2017), John and Grace Vincent began their mission\u2026<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/utusheffield.org.uk\/2019\/02\/26\/march-forum-church-policy-in-sheffield-with-john-vincent\/\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/utusheffield.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/utusheffield.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/utusheffield.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utusheffield.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utusheffield.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/utusheffield.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2456,"href":"https:\/\/utusheffield.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455\/revisions\/2456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/utusheffield.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utusheffield.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utusheffield.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}