Setting the Church on Fire?
The following is a personal reflection on this year's 'On Fire Mission' Conference. The views expressed are entirely my own and are not intended to represent those of the Trustees or the Conference Organising Group. I was glad when they said unto me, "We will go to an in-person gathering of On Fire Mission". I hope you will excuse my clumsy paraphrasing of the words of the Psalmist, but I was indeed glad - delighted in fact - to hear that after a Covid-enforced break of two years, the annual On Fire Mission Conference would take place in person in May 2022. Better still (from an admittedly selfish perspective) the conference was to be based in a new location just fifty minutes drive up the road at Yarnfield Training and Conference centre, Staffordshire, rather than at its former long-term home of High Leigh in Hertfordshire. In reality, the latter joy was somewhat short-lived (and its selfishness appropriately rewarded) as on the day the co...