Diocese of Oxford Stirs
Find new starting points for sharing faith in your everyday relationships and conversations
Welcome to the Oxford Diocese
Are you wondering how to have conversations about faith with people who seem indifferent or who are not quite ready for an invite to Alpha?
Perhaps you're wondering how you can shift your outreach activities from social interactions to real spiritual engagement.
We've partnered with the Oxford Diocese to make the Stir Video Training Series available to you. Here's the details:
The video series will help you to:
Know the questions people are asking
Learn where people are starting
Learn to stir spiritual curiosity
The Stir Video Series gives you access to bite-sized learning that you can put into practice with your friends, neighbours and work colleagues today.
Run the Eight-Session Intro Series
We've stirred all our best content to the surface for use with your small group.
What's included:
- Downloadable Leaders and Participant Guides, complete with discussion questions
- Access to bonus videos for participants to go deeper on their own
- Downloadable sermon notes that support the series
Access to all 24 Videos
For those who want to do a deep-dive. Viewing all 24 short videos demonstrates how stirring is grounded in scripture and rooted in our identity as spiritual beings. The bonus videos also include several practical examples of everyday stirring conversations.
Use this code at the checkout
to get 10% off your order of the Stir Video Series:
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What people are saying...
Makes talking about faith so much easier...
“I'm loving this Start to Stir way of talking to people about faith... It makes it so much easier and I can't stop talking about it! This is just what I've been searching to hear as I've noticed that having a conversation about my faith with others falls very much on the "it's fine for you but not for me ears". I had another great conversation with a colleague this afternoon talking about 13 year-old-girls' friendship troubles and how teenagers’ keen sense of injustice is a spiritual response to their situation."
Ruth
Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Prepared me for today's conversations...
“One of the things that the Stir Video Training Series has done for me is that it’s helped me realise that I hadn’t been prepared to have conversations with people who have never even considered God, or were even aware that they are a spiritual being. I hadn’t realised how unprepared I was to help those who needed to start further back."
Gaye Hozee
Grand Rapids, MI
Helped us know where to start with people..
“The quick duration of each video is very good and the participant and leaders guides are helpful. It is so helpful for our church that you showed us where to start, with people's needs and longings, and how to take one step forward. This ‘start where people are starting’ approach has been really transformational.”
Isi Weber
Switzerland
Minister
Already on mission in your community?
Could a 6 week Pre-Evangelism Course for those who aren't quite yet asking the Alpha questions help you shift from social relationships to spiritual impact? View the Stir Course here.