National Links
Ignite
Ignite was started in 2000 by Nigel James and Gary Smith as a six-part declaration that an ever increasing number of young people are signing. Although based in Cardiff in Wales, the Ignite initiative has spread all over the UK and is growing globally.
Standard Issue
In April 2005, a gang of teenage boys from a council estate in South Wales came back from a Christian camp - and they were different! They'd just met Jesus and let Him into their lives! The Church was left with the awesome job of trying to help them connect their new faith in Jesus with life back on the streets! There wasn't a whole load of stuff in the Christian bookshops that explained the Bible on their level, .... and Standard Issue was born!
The Message
The Message Trust is an award-winning youth charity, founded in 1992. They have a well established reputation for being a pioneering organisation with a real passion to improve the lives of young people in Greater Manchester. Driven by Christian values, they help all sorts of young people from all sorts of backgrounds and with all sorts of beliefs.
Hope 08
The diverse range of churches across the United Kingdom are on a constant mission to serve and communicate with the 58 million residents and many visitors. 'Hope' proposes to support this on-going work, by facilitating intensified, united, focused prayer and a year of activities, communicating the Gospel through words and actions, creating a lasting legacy of both physical and spiritual change in the lives of communities and individuals.
Hope Revolution
This is not a NEW revolution. It started with Jesus flobbing in a blind man's eye, with women being treated with equal value and respect, with corruption challenged, with picking the pushed out and showing up of the sure of themselves, with turning the other cheek and going the extra mile, with loving the enemy and dying to self. Revolutionaries of Jesus, Revolutionaries of Hope.
Evangelical Alliance
The Evangelical Alliance was founded in 1846 and is the oldest alliance of evangelical Christians in the world.
The Alliance is an umbrella group representing one million evangelical Christians in the UK and is made up of member churches drawn from over 30 different denominations, organisations and individuals. In its formative years the Alliance particularly stood for the victims of religious persecution and enabled evangelicals from different denominations to work together.
As part of a movement uniting to change society, the Alliance promotes unity and truth, acts as an evangelical voice to the state, society and the wider church, and works collaboratively with Alliance members and other evangelicals, to bring about social and spiritual transformation within society.