Episode 43 - Exploring the Northumbria Community with Roy Searle

Send us Fan MailIn this first episode in a series preparing for Celtic Advent, Roy Searle joins Christine to discuss his own spiritual journey, Celtic Spirituality and the Northumbria Community. Roy moved from a happy, un-churched childhood to an adulthood influenced by friends and mentors from a variety of Christian traditions. He himself has led a number of different Christian churches and communities, including the Northumbria Community, a geographically diverse community of believers. Christine and Roy explore the particular blessings of Celtic Spirituality and discuss ways of being and doing Church. Roy Searle lives with his wife Shirley in Newcastle, in the north-east of England. A father of four and grandfather of eight, Roy loves spending time with family and friends, playing a lot of sport, and spending time in his beloved Northumberland. A Northumbrian by birth and calling, he is a companion and former leader of the Northumbria Community, www.northumbriacommunity.org. He is a former President of the Baptist Union of Great Britain, a creative pioneer ambassador, leadership mentor, a member of the Renovare Board in Britain and Ireland, www.renovare.org.uk, an associate of a Northumbrian Collective www.northumbrian.org and a member of The Commons executive team, https://www.thecommonscooperative.com. He contributed and was part of the editorial team that compiled Celtic Daily Prayer and he has recently published a book on Forming Communities of Hope in the Great Unravelling: Leadership in a changing world, with his friend, the Canadian missiologist Alan Roxburgh (interviewed by Christine this year, here.)Find out more about Christine Sine onWalking In Wonder on Substackand on her website GodspacelightAnd on social media:InstagramFacebookXAs an Amazon Associate I receive a small amount for purchases made through appropriate links. Thank you for supporting Godspace in this way.