Peter Farmer - Living a Missional Lifestyle (N08)

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Tim Nash

Christianity, Faithshift, Deconstruction, Christianmysticism, Religion & Spirituality, Christianspirituality, Progressivechristian, Christian, Religion, Emergingchurch

4.7 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2009

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Peter Farmer chats with us about his radical missional lifestyle in a deprived area of Nottingham. He shares with us the practices he has committed to and the theology that underpins all he does.

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0:00.0	Nomad, Christian community, mission and the future of the church.
0:16.2	Hello and welcome to Nomad. This week I'm delighted to say that we are chatting to someone who's from our neck of the woods,
0:23.7	someone else who's living in Nottingham, who's been involved in the whole missional community thing for quite some time.
0:29.9	His name is Peter Farmer, and Peter, it's great to have you on the show.
0:34.5	So thanks very much for being here.
0:36.1	Great.
0:37.0	Tell us a little bit about the community and the mission that you're involved in.
0:42.4	Okay, me and my wife and family moved into St. Anne's, which is an inner city community in
0:48.8	Nottingham of around 15,000 people last November 2008.
0:57.6	And what led you to move there?
1:01.5	Well, we had been living in the meadows.
1:03.9	I moved into the meadows in 2000,
1:06.4	which is another inner city community
1:07.8	of about 10,000 people in Nottingham.
1:13.7	And I was involved in mission work there for about seven or eight years. I met my wife four years ago. We got married and was
1:19.7	continue to live in that area and work amongst the local people and really got to know the area
1:25.7	and the local environment. And after a while, we began
1:29.5	to feel God's leading us to move to St Anne's to basically begin to work in mission again
1:34.9	in that area. And when you say work in mission, what do you mean by that? What are the things that
1:41.7	you actually do? Okay. well uh first thing is we
1:47.7	we felt god was saying to us to actually move into the area to live uh as opposed to just um
1:53.0	commute in and out so uh mission for us is about uh being amongst the people.
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