I help lead a mid-week church group and recently we’ve been keen to increase our missional agenda. The word missional gets everywhere and feels like one of those buzz words. The fact is, the people in the group aren’t the type that are going to pray for people on the streets. They aren’t that type. As a leader, I don’t want to go on and on about being missional every time we get together. I want it to be a natural part of what we do and what we’re about.

Increasingly, I want our group to have a culture that thinks and talks missionally without the leaders having to mention it from the front all the time.

Whenever we get together we always spend 10 minutes praying for our non-Christian friends. We do this in pairs, using some of the time to share where our non-Christian friends are at and the rest of the time praying. Before this prayer time, we share any encouragements about people or situations that we have been praying for - where there have been answers to prayer or opportunities we’ve had we’ve to share our faith.

My name's Nigel Savage and I’ve been part of the iCQ team for the last three years. My role is Church Coordinator, which means that I keep in touch with the church leaders that we’re working with. I talk through how things are going, look at strategic planning and how leadership development is happening.

When I’m not working with the iCQ team, my main job is working as a leader in a large church in Bristol, which has over 1,000 adults. I’ve been working as a pastor in this church for over 5 years. I oversee all the mid-week groups that happen and I also lead one of these groups.