Christian Selvaratnam

A key part of The Order of Mission is prayer and in the weekend we attended this was referred to in the context of the traditional monastic structures of prayer.
Historic religions orders all have a structure of prayer that goes by different names including Liturgy of the Hours, Canonical hours, Pattern of life, all drawing [...]

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Mike Woodhead, vicar of St Thomas Crookes in Sheffield, did a great job putting the different aspects of The Order of Mission together in a framework at the weekend last week.

Traditional vow
Poverty
Chastity
Obedience

TOM vow
Simplicity
Purity
Accountability

‘Triangle’ example
OUT
UP
IN

Key tool
Lifeshapes
Prayer
Huddle

The diagram is shown in the photo:
Traditional vow
The vow taken in an historic religious order.
TOM vow
The equivalent vow taken in TOM. [...]

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Last weekend Amanda and I were at St Thomas Crookes is Sheffield to find out more about The Order of Mission, a modern day religious order defined as ‘a community committed to each other under God for the purpose of mission.’
Part of the identity of any order or monastic society is something called [...]

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This weekend Amanda and I were at St Thomas Crookes is Sheffield to find out about The Order of Mission.
The Order of Mission, or TOM as is is also known, is a modern religious order focused on empowering mission. TOM started at St Thomas Church in Sheffield which planted out St Thomas Philadelphia into the [...]

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Last night Amanda and I were at our first Order of Mission Huddle meeting.
As the website says,
The Order of Mission is a community committed to each other, under God, for the purpose of mission.
Established in 2003 by the Archbishop of York, members of the Order are working in partnership with a variety of churches and [...]

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