Pioneer beatitudes

Rev Greg Bakker and Rev Tina Hodgett introduce a new series reflecting on the beatitudes for pioneers and priests who are collaborating in mission.

Pioneer Spectrum goes to Germany

Tina Hodgett and Lindsay Morgan-Lundie travelled from south-west England to south-west Germany to help launch the Pioneer Spectrum tool there. They found friends and inspiration aplenty.

European Pioneer Gathering!

Tina Hodgett is just back from a gathering of pioneers from across Europe. Here’s what she experienced, noticed and learned.

Clown state

Tina Hodgett finds the similarities between pioneering and clowning hit her like a custard pie in the face.

Coming out fighting for “pioneering”

"Pioneer" has become a disputed word. But Rev Tina Hodgett, Pioneering Parishes project leader, can't think of a better term for initiators of new things.

Everywhere you look, grace lives

Tina Hodgett travelled from Somerset to Seattle to be inspired by a very place-based conference with a focus on restoring neighbourhoods.

Beyond measure (1)

Tina Hodgett explains why she resists the impulse to measure outcomes in pioneering in the innovator space.

Riding a wave – telling the story of Pioneering Parishes

Tina Hodgett describes how she joined Greg Bakker (Portsmouth Diocese's dean of pioneer ministry) to innovate a series of webinars and help churches make pioneering part of parish life.

Another way of seeing – developments of the pioneer spectrum

The creators of the Pioneer Spectrum, Paul Bradbury and Tina Hodgett, reflect on the popularity and the flaws of this diagram and how they have been working to develop it into a useful missional tool.

The childless women of the bible: a hopeful metaphor for the church

Tina Hodgett playfully explores how the accounts of childless women in the Bible open up new metaphors to help us to reflect on church arriving somewhere surprisingly hopeful.

Equality… an e-lusive quality

Where have you seen it in your life?

How church is always emerging

A recent conversation day at CMS looked at fresh ways to express and think about pioneering and church planting.