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Welcome to Nomad podcast. This month, we're chatting to former vicar of St Andrew's Church, Chorley Wood,

and now the leader of Father's House Trust, Mark Stibby. We'll be chatting to him about how

he reconstructed his church into missional communities. All that together with your emails

and some discussion from myself, Nick, Tim, Hannah, Laura and Michael.

On this month's show, we're having a chat with the Reverend Dr Mark Stibby, who's the former

vicarious and Andrews Chorley Wood, which is one of the

major centres of charismatic renewal in the UK. He's a leading evangelical scholar and teacher,

an author of many books and an in-demand speaker around the world. And he now leads the

Father's House Trust, a Christian charity dedicated to bringing God's love to the fatherless.

So it's a great privilege to welcome to

Nomad podcast this month, Mark Stibby. Hi Mark. How's it going? Thanks very much, Tim. It's good

to be with you. Yeah, it's going really well. The transition from being a vicar to running the

father's house trust has gone really, really smoothly. And yeah, it's going very well. We're busy and we're busy good, good

busy. Right. Now, on this podcast, we've been thinking a lot about missional communities,

and we've been discussing this with various thinkers and leaders from around the world. And often

there's this assumption that these type of communities would require planting something new.

And so we're really interested in hearing about

your time at St Andrews because it appeared to be a very successful, growing, lively church,

and yet you made the tough decision to restructure it around Mission. So I was wondering whether you

could begin by telling us a bit about St Andrews and why you felt that you needed to so radically

restructure it. Yeah, I think when I arrived at St Andrews and why you felt that you needed to so radically restructure it.

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