Urban Expression and the Incarnate Network invite you to join us for a day conference with Michael Frost to explore the implications of incarnational mission. A day conference in Oxford, UK. The Incarnate Network House Party is moving from October 2008 to 3-5 Feb 2009 so we can take the opportunity of a day with Michael whilst he is in the UK.

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.

We have invited Michael to explore with us 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. We will ask Michael 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  attached booking form and send it with a cheque payable to ‘Urban Expression’ to Urban Expression, 24 Effingham Road, Bristol BS6 5BJ.
Download booking form and publicity as PDF document here

Any queries, please contact Stuart Murray Williams: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The sponsors: The day is jointly sponsored by Urban Expression and Incarnate Network