Please click here for details of weekend engineering works affecting public transport journeys to ExCeL on Saturday March 13 for The God Confusion event. The Docklands Light Railway (DLR), the main transport artery to ExCeL, is unaffected and will be running a full Saturday service.
We are very much looking forward to The God Confusion event on Saturday March 13 at ExCeL from 10.15 – 4.00! Tickets are still available, priced at £30 (£25 concessions). Please click here to book. With world-class speakers Tim Keller, Al Stewart, Rico Tice, John Lennox and Richard Cunningham, gripping interviews, film items and music, it promises to be a fantastic day! The day is aimed both at our regular, loyal Convention crowds and their friends! It will help Christians think through answers to the big questions of life and eternity, and give much food for thought to those who may currently be sceptical about the Christian faith! We look forward to seeing you on the day!
Once again we plan to offer a British Sign Language (BSL) interpreting service for deaf delegates at The God Confusion event on March 13. To reserve a place in the seating area set aside for this purpose, please book a standard ticket online, by phone or by post through The Good Book Company (click here for details) and then contact Stephen Fletcher, the Convention administrator, to confirm how many places should be reserved for members of your group in the signing area. Stephen can be contacted by email – info@christianconventions.org.uk – or on 0845 225 0899. We trust that the BSL interpreting service will be greatly used and that it will prove to be a huge help and encouragement to the delegates who will benefit from it.
We are delighted to announce the speakers for the 2 optional seminars over lunchtime during The God Confusion on Saturday March 13. John Lennox will be speaking on science and the Bible, and Richard Cunningham will tackle the question of ’suffering’. John is Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University and has written several books including God’s Undertaker: Has Science Buried God? In the past two years, he has debated a number of leading atheists including Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens. See his website here. Richard is Director of UCCF: thechristianunions. He frequently speaks at university missions and at events such as New Word Alive which he was instrumental in setting up. Find out more about Richard and the work of UCCF here. The seminars will run one after the other in the main hall over lunchtime – you can stay to both, one or neither, and if you stay, you can eat your lunch while you listen!
The South West Gospel Partnership is to begin a Bristol Men’s Convention this year. Although not part of Christian Conventions, we are very supportive of this new venture. The Convention will take place from 9:30am – 4:30pm at Kensington Baptist Church, Bristol on Saturday May 22, 2010. The focus is on “What kind of Man?” and talks will centre on Matthew 8 – 10. Key speakers will be Mike Cain, John Stevens and Rupert Bentley-Taylor. For further information, including booking details, please click here.
The publicity flyers for the joint London Men’s / Women’s Convention – The God Confusion – on Saturday March 13 2010 are due from the printers on Monday January 11 and will immediately be despatched to those on our church rep database. In the meantime, an electronic version of the leaflet can be downloaded from the website welcome page.
Ticket sales for the joint London Men’s / Women’s Convention – The God Confusion – begin on Monday January 11. Please click here for further information, pricing and to book online. With world-class speakers Tim Keller, Al Stewart and Rico Tice considering the big questions of life and eternity, gripping interviews and short optional lunchtime seminars addressing challenges to faith, “The God Confusion” promises to be a truly unforgettable day.
Christian Conventions is today announcing details of a significant change to the advertised London Men’s / Women’s Convention on March 13, 2010 at ExCeL. Rather than having two separate Conventions, men and women will now join together for the full day. The proposed children’s programme has been dropped. These changes have largely been taken in response to feedback from partner churches. We are looking forward very much to an uplifting, helpful and challenging day in March as we learn more about God together.
Fuller details are below and we would be really grateful if you could filter news of these changes through to others in your churches. We very much hope that you will be able to join with us on the day!
Flyers will be available by early January at the latest and bookings will open at that point too. Please keep checking this website for updates.
NEWS RELEASE
Men and women join to clear up “THE GOD CONFUSION”
The London Men’s and Women’s Conventions are joining together for the first time for a special one-off event on Saturday 13th March 2010.
A top line-up of speakers, including Tim Keller, Al Stewart and Rico Tice will be part of a programme designed to help us understand how the Gospel is relevant and trustworthy in our modern age. Short, punchy optional seminars during the day will examine some of the key questions people have about the Christian faith, including suffering and the reliability of the Bible. The talks and presentations will be accessible and approachable to fringe church members, and those who are not yet Christians.
Conventions Chairman Richard Coekin says: “We’ve listened and prayed and developed the programme so that it will be most useful to people coming and bringing friends along with them. Churches told us of their concerns that guests will not easily come for an early start and that the women want to share the men’s programme. So now the day is a combined Conventions day in support of the Passion for Life Mission that starts later, and builds in more time for relaxed conversations.
“The sessions are aimed at equipping Christians for their mission but will also be completely suitable for “church fringe” members and those sympathetic to Christianity. We dropped the proposed children’s programme to concentrate upon the highest quality combined and familiar adult programme with world-class speakers, rousing singing, personal testimonies and lunch-time seminars providing answers to the questions that unbelievers ask. We are confident that The God Confusion will be a brilliant day for both Christians and their guests.
“We are expecting a day packed with our loyal convention crowd, plus many sympathetic friends and work colleagues.
We are hearing huge enthusiasm for these changes and we are glad to continue serving the local churches in this way.”
The God Confusion Saturday 13th March 2010 will be held at ExCeL London from 10.15 to 3.30
The recordings from the 2009 London Men’s Convention, featuring the excellent, thought-provoking talks by Tim Keller, Mike Cain and Wes McNabb encouraging us all to “Be Men of Jesus”, are now available to order via St Helen’s Media. Audio CDs that can be played in a conventional CD player cost £12.50 and MP3 CDs are £9.50. To order, please click on the link below or telephone St Helen’s Media on 020 7407 8629. The “Now that’s what I call preaching” MP3 CD, featuring selected talks from previous Conventions, is also available!
Click here to order all Convention recordings.
At the London Men’s Convention on 29th March 2008 Richard Coekin announced a major nationwide initiative for 2010 called ‘A Passion for Life’.
Due to enquiries from men following the Convention we are now posting the new website for the mission which will give you all the details as they become available. Bookmark it now and begin praying!
