Ignite Magazine Winter 2023
IGNITE Counties Ignite Magazine Winter 2023.
INSIDE THIS ISSUE
Pages 6-7 Happy 125th anniversary, Counties. 2024 will see us celebrate all that God has done and continues to do.
Pages 8-9 Counties CEO Martin Erwin is visiting the regions to share how together,
we might see local churches grow through sharing the Gospel and making
disciples. He talks to Ignite.
Pages 1O-11 270 people from across the country attended Counties Connect Conference in
October. Kara Purdy, 21, from Belfast, Northern Ireland, shares her reflections.
Pages 12-13 Stevie Walker and Steve Cowles are Counties newest evangelists, having
completed the Evangelist Training Programme (ETP). But their backgrounds
couldn’t be more different.
Pages 14-15 Sue Ashmole is Counties Neighbourhood Chaplains Coordinator.
She took over the role at the start of 2023. Ignite caught up with her,
amidst her busy schedule, to find out how she’s been getting on.
Pages 16-19 Two Counties Evangelists share how God’s love is at work in men
on opposite sides of life who have been hardened by it.
Pages 2O-23 The Great Commission is at the heart of Counties own mission – making
disciples. But what of baptism? Senior Evangelist, Roger Chilvers, takes a look.
Pages 24-25 How a prophetic picture of scattering seeds turned Saffron Walden Community
Church into a packed, thriving congregation with a new café style hub.
Pages 26-29 Making Jesus Known Today and Tomorrow: Spreading the Gospel in
Twenty-First Century Britain. If you haven’t already read Counties new
book. CEO Martin Erwin gives a flavour of its unmissable contents.
Pages 3O-33 The transgender debate currently looms large in our society. As Christians,
how do we approach this issue? Steve McQuoid looks at a biblical approach.
Pages 34 Just a Minute with Gordon Curley.