I was asked to address a conference of educators, education of course is one of the leavers that can be used to change - a culture or... so here it is.

1. To Change a City
CEE
London Link Conference
Emmanuel Centre
Marsham Street
Westminster London
1st October 2011

2. We need to Love the City.
London is a great City and I love it.

3. Sheep and Fields
Sorry to say to all those Christians who love the ‘pastoral ‘
approach of Sheep and fields, you need to go back to your
Bible and ask the question what is it that God has promised
us – actually he has promised us a City!

4. Rev 21:2 A.V.
And
The Message
 Then I, John, saw the holy city, New
Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from
God, prepared as a bride adorned for her
husband. 3 And I heard a loud voice from heaven
saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is with
men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall
be His people. God Himself will be with them and
be their God.
 2I saw Holy Jerusalem, new-created, descending
resplendent out of Heaven, as ready for God as a
bride for her husband. 3-5I heard a voice thunder

5. However much as I love my City, I also
recognise that it needs to be affected
by THE KINGDOM and I need to be a
KINGDOM SEEKER. So I need to seek
and find the Kingdom in my City. In
fact we if we are the people of God
have the capacity to pull down
Kingdom into this time space world of
Kingdom

6. And in good ACE background
training we do that by engaging –
getting involved - getting our
hands dirty and seeking to change
the culture on which the city is
based or stands and to quote ACE
it stands on the four legs that
mould and make culture.
We Need To Change The City And Its
Culture

7. 1. Politics
2. Arts and Media
3. Education
4. Business
These are:
These are very big areas, I’m determined that I would
not just theorise on these issues, but rather seek to
engage with them. To seek to find Kingdom in the areas
that moulds and make.

8. Politics
Affects so much, it is those areas
that govern and control
 I had a dream that maybe we
should, ‘the followers of the way’ be the
moulders of things like Social
Services, let me tell you it did not start
with Government, it was people of faith
that first saw the need to change and
mend these areas. So we opened a
company called

9. This Company now
runs:
Phoenix Community Care

10. Housing and support for some 30plus young people
who are classed as UAM’S (Unaccompanied Minors –
i.e. 16 and 17 year olds who are in the UK without
parents.

11. Housing and Support for young 18 year olds who are
classified by Social Services as Vulnerable Adults

12. Housing and Support for Mothers
and babies

13. Our own Independent Foster Care
Agency

14. Education
 Again, let me say it was not really government
that had the big ideas. Here it was people like
Robert Rakes who founded the Sunday School
movement. He wanted to help poor youngsters
read and write so that they could understand
Scripture. It was Sunday School because that
was the only day they were not working and could
learn.
 So many people accuse me of brainwashing
children. My answer is what do you think that
others are doing. Many of us need our brains
washed. We need a Kingdom focus in our lives
 We need to educate our children, it is a powerful
force for the future, and it really is putting in

15. OUR SCHOOL IN SRI LANKA

16. Proverbs 22:6 AV
Train up a child in the way he
should go,
And when he is old he will not
depart from it.
Proverbs 22:6 The Message
Point your kids in the right
direction—
Proverbs 22:6 AV
and Message

17. Is about Righteousness Justice
Peace
We need to seek the Kingdom of
God in our City and for our City.
Luke 11:2AV
Our Father in heaven,
Hallowed be Your name.
Your kingdom come.
The Kingdom of God

18. God is with us
God has commanded us to SEEK FIRST HIS
KINGDOM
We can do it.... Lets not just talk but act.
Morning
Assembly
At 7.45 a.m.
Wattella
Sri Lanka
Paalam
International
School
Using Full
ACE
curriculum
Now around
200 Children.
Adrian Hawkes.
London Link Conference
Emmanuel Centre Marsham Street Westminster
London