Cornerstone Summer Conference

We’re really looking forward to this year’s Cornerstone Summer Conference on Saturday 21^st June. This year we’re hosting the event here at theBarn and we are expecting a great day together!

We’re delighted that Sandy Millar is returning for the second year to lead and speak in the adult sessions. Jon Hudson and Jess Waterhouse will be leading worship. Our children and young people have equally good sessions lined up; Mindy Easton is leading the youth stream, Kate Irvine and Rachel Harris are leading our children’s work, along with Natalie Addis and Shannon Silverthorne running the crèche and pre-school group during the conference. Natalie and Shannon both work at Kiddywinks (the nursery at the BRI in Chipping Campden). Both are experienced and hold NVQ Level 3’s in Child Care.

You can book yourself into the Conference in two ways; either download a booking formfrom http://www.campdenbaptist.org.uk/cornerstone/cornerstone-summer-conference/csc2014/#bookings, print it out and post it back, with full payment (payable toCCBC Project Account) to Lesley Grainger (Conference Administrator), 5 Coldicott Leys, Ebrington, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, GL55 6NZ; or use the online booking facility on the Cornerstone webpage where you can also pay using PayPal.

About Sandy Millar

The Rt. Rev’d John Kirkpatrick “Sandy” Millar practised for 10 years as a barrister before being ordained into the Church of England in 1976. He joined the staff of Holy Trinity Brompton (HTB) as curate in 1976, becoming Vicar in 1985. He oversaw the growth of HTB to the largest church in the Church of England and its ‘church planting’ initiative into church buildings in other parts of London on the verge of extinction. He was responsible for overseeing the growth of the Alpha Course from a small local parish resource to one used by thousands of churches around the world. He was installed as a Prebendary of St. Paul’s Cathedral in1997.

After 20 years as Vicar of HTB, he stood down in July 2005 and became Vicar of St. Mark Tollington Park in a deprived part of London. In November 2005, he was consecrated as an Assistant Bishop in the Province of Uganda in a joint initiative of the Archbishop of Uganda, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London. In February 2006 he was licensed to act as an assistant Bishop in the Diocese of London at a major service led by the Bishop of London in St Paul’s Cathedral. He retired in 2011. He is married to Annette and they have four children.