Urban Expression and the Incarnate Network invite you to join them for a day conference with Michael Frost to explore the implications of incarnational mission.

Michael is the vice-principal of Morling College, Sydney, and is involved in an emerging missional community in the city known as smallboatbigsea. He is also the co-author with Alan Hirsch of The Shaping of Things to Come and the author of Exiles: Living Missionally in a Post-Christian Culture. Michael has interacted extensively with emerging churches in North America and the UK but brings a distinctive Australian perspective to discussions about mission and church today.

Michael has been invited to explore two main issues:
• What are the implications of an incarnational approach to mission?
• How can indigenous leaders be empowered and released?

Michael has strongly advocated an incarnational approach to mission, rather than the attractional approach that characterised mission in the Christendom era. But what does this mean in practice? How different is this? Are there any dangers in this approach? Is it sustainable? How important for incarnational mission is the release of indigenous leaders? And how can such leadership be empowered?

The day conference will run from 10.00 until 4.30. Michael has been asked to speak twice and give the rest of the time over to interaction and discussion around the two main themes. There will also be an opportunity for an open question/answer session to explore other issues.

Our hosts will be the Church Mission Society at their new centre in Oxford. The address is CMS, Watlington Road, Oxford OX4 6BZ.

The cost for the day will be £20 (including lunch) or £15 (unwaged).

To book a place, please complete the booking form and send it with a cheque payable to ‘Urban Expression’ to Urban Expression, 24 Effingham Road, Bristol BS6 5BJ.

Any queries, please see Urban Expression or contact Stuart Murray Williams