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• Announced on 9 May 2012,  The Cinnamon Network Fund is now endowed with a grant from the Cabinet Office Social Action Fund. There are two grants available:

1. 150 seed funding grants of £2,000 available to local churches who would like to request assistance is setting up an established Community Franchise project.
2. 10 concept development grants of £6,000 available to local churches who would like to request help in developing a new Community Franchise model.

• Big Hearted: The gospel of simple words and a large heart This new book by Chris Duffett (BUGB President 2012-13) and Simon Goddard is being published in May 2012.  Copies can be pre-ordered for £7.95 including postage from Gilead Books.

• LICC Toolbox - five days engaging with the Bible and contemporary culture as whole-life disciples.  The next courses are running from 11-15 June and 10-14 September 2012.  Click here for more information and bookings.

• Church Planting - Baptists have been planting churches at the rate of 1 a month through the last decade - click here for the paper outlining the results of our recent research into church planting.  Church Planting Research

• Crossingplaces in Glendale - Roy Searle made this video made for the Baptist Assembly 2011.  In it he speaks about planting the Christian gospel through crossingplaces in the remote rural region of Glendale.  Click below to view the video.

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Incarnate has also produced a video about the Glendale Crossingplaces - a recent church plant in a rural north Northumberland, supported by giving to Home Mission.  Click here for this video, in which Bill Eugster talks about the importance of forming relationships in establishing a community exploring what the Kingdom of God might look like now in this land of the ancient Celtic saints.

• For more information about church planting, click here.

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