The Venture 12 Podcast

In this episode we share some prayers, poems and reflections for this unique Advent Season. We'd like to extend a big thank you to friends of the podcast; poets Sarah Bourns Crosby and Will Small for their inspiring and powerful words and contributions. Finally we'd also like to thank you all for listening to and supporting the podcast during 2023. We hope this reflective episode will give you something to ponder, perhaps give you something to discuss with others but ultimately draw you closer into the presence of Christ. May God bless you richly this Advent season and Merry Christmas! Contributions In Violence and Travail. Words by Walter Brueggemann, Voice Ashely Bowles, Music by Mark Cotterill Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals. Notes on Advent: Shane Claiborne and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove Blessed Is She: Words by Sarah Bourns Crosby (Advent Guide, Poems, Passages and Prompts) The Other Story by Will Small The Venture 12 Podcast Team Alex Gibson -  Host -Editor Mark Cotterill - Host, Music and Art Hanna Mingay -Host Chris Mingay - Host Kris Halliday - Host Emma Cotterill - Host Bethany Gibson - Host

In this episode Will Small challenges us to rethink inclusion for the marginalised and the creation of safe spaces to explore life and faith. In this joint Venture 12 & Included: The Podcast chat, Will shares some of his journey of evolving faith, finding God in unexpected places and processing it through poetry along the way. To learn more about Will's work do check out the podcast and his website. Links are below! Spiritual misfits welcome here. - Spiritual Misfits WILL SMALL. - Home

In this episode we have great conversation with Mike Frost about his new book 'Mission is the Shape of Water: Learning From the Past to Inform Our Role in the World'. Join us as traverse through the rich tapestry of Christian history revealing how context shapes mission, just as a bottle shapes water. You'll encounter some well known and perhaps some unexpected voices, people and movements who have been loyal to the soil of their time and announced the universal reign of God's good news in profoundly transformative and beautiful ways. Where will the water flow next? What might the shape of mission be for our time and place, and how can we play our part today? The Book

We talk to Jessie Cruickshank about her new book; Ordinary Discipleship. Jessie learned how to be a disciplemaker in the wilderness. When she connected her training in outdoor adventure ministry with her Harvard degree in neuroeducation, God showed her a pathway for ordinary disciples of Jesus to experience profound spiritual growth.

Pete Enns is an author, scholar and professor. This podcast takes some of those Christian ideas that usually scare, intimidate or worry us, and then make those very places a meeting place with a God who is bigger and more wonderful, mysterious and trustworthy than we ever could have guessed.

The Gathering Network - Micro churches in an European context In this episode we have a conversation with Charlotte and Adam Penketh, the leaders of the Gathering Network in Glasgow. They invite us into a conversation about small missional communities, activating the whole body of Christ and what’s it’s like leading a network in Europe with its unique opportunities and challenges.

In this episode we meet Alan Hirsch award winning author of numerous books on missional spirituality, leadership and organisation and Rob Kelly who serves as a catalyst for city networks that unite the church for the flourishing of cities. Together they have just co-authored and released a book titled 'Metanoia". In this conversation we talk about the profound gift embedded in these first words of Jesus and explore with new eyes and new language this ancient call to realign our hearts and minds to Christ sparking the deep rooted transformation in people, churches and organisations that we so desperately desire.

Rev. René August is an Anglican Priest from South Africa who was mentored by and served alongside the great Bishop Desmond Tutu. A veteran of the anti-apartheid movement, René currently works for Tearfund and serves as a peacebuilding specialist walking alongside communities and churches as they seek to respond to the issues of poverty, injustice, and division.  This episode firstly calls us to interrogate the narratives that we hold around scripture, power and privilege and religious authority, and secondly inspires us to contemplate once more what happens to the movement of power in any context as a result of the presence of Jesus. Reflection Questions What does this conversation reveal to you about your own community or context? What do you need to question in the power structures around you? Which one piece of wisdom can you learn, share or apply from this conversation? True Privilege | Tearfund Australia

In this episode we talk to Brian Sanders founder of the Underground Network about his book The 6 seasons of Calling in which he invites us to see 'calling' as something dynamic and ongoing rather than something that is static or a one-time only experience.

This is 1 of 5 episodes of the Venture 12 podcast brought to you in collaboration with the Movement Leaders Collective featuring one contemporary apostolic woman sharing the story of a historic apostolic woman in this mini-series seeking to broaden our understanding of the apostolic gifting given to the Church.  In this episode Emma Cotterill speaks to Keri Ladouceur about Prisca. Find out more about Keri’s work at: https://www.newgroundnetwork.org/  Who do you think most deserves her place in the ‘Apostolic Hall of Fame’? VOTE in our V12 poll using the link below: https://7qvreyxc737.typeform.com/to/Y0EyhseE