Make a difference in 2010

The challenge to the people, schools and churches of the Diocese of St. Albans is : dare to make a difference in your lives, in your communities and in the world by living the words of Jesus.

You can register on the Challenge website www.challenge2010.org or through your parish;  ask your parish priest, church warden or other leader.

The verses, which are all from Luke's Gospel and record something Jesus said, will be sent by email or by text (for a small charge) or will be available through Twitter and RSS.   Alternatively the verses will be available to be downloaded from the website and you, your parish, your school or youth group can print them off.

The website will give further details and ideas about how to make the Challenge a shared exercise within your congregation, class, youth group or among your friends.   In particular you will be able to write comments on the website and upload short video clips, via YouTube, so that you can share with others what the verse means to you and how you are seeking to act on it.

… is no more.  The good news is we keep it short and sweet!

The (bad?) news is that God Goss – still running on Heart Cambridge and Heart Norfolk till end Jan - cannot stay on air without your support.  Like the Christmas ads produced by ChurchAds.Net, it is there for churches to use for FREE – but it doesn’t magically appear on the radio, unless Christians – like any other group in society – pay for their airtime.

Non-seekers will not know the good things which are really happening via Christian websites, great as many are – because they won’t go there.  But lots do listen to the radio.  God Goss’s weekly “drip-feed” of good stories will not convert anyone overnight, nor is it meant to, but it will help clear the soil of the bricks and stones of misunderstanding before seed-sowing.

So if you would like to really change the image of Christianity in your area:

(1)               Have a listen to this week’s and last week’s audio, attached (one minute each).  These are NEW and not yet on our website.

(2)               Visit our new “back door” page for churches, www.godgoss.com/church, and ask your church Treasurer/leader to consider pledging £10 a month for your area

(3)               SEE THIS WEEK’S INSPIRE MAGAZINE!!!! (February issue)

(4)               Please pray that Churches Together groups, or dioceses, will decide to take on “God Goss” in the same way that they USED to pay for religious programming – and now do not have to because it has all gone!  So has the money used … somewhere.  That’s the resource we’d like churches to tap into.

(5)               Please pray that God will use God Goss to speak to people outside the church


NB:  not a penny of the money you pledge/give goes to God Goss.  It’s ALL goes to YOUR area’s radio station – thanks to the generosity of Church Army in funding our central production.

Please, don’t let’s put up with the distorted image Christianity has in the UK any longer.  For less than people pay for a mobile - £10 a month – your church can start to change all that.  Let’s get a nationally recognised feature onto all the BIG radio stations, like the Heart network, and really “get God gossiped” where YOU are …

Thank you for your prayers … and for reading this.  

Blessings all


ALI BURNETT

Freelance Radio Producer, "God Goss"
www.godgoss.com/church

07774 248189