Greenbelt and Methodists 3 year deal

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Date: 22 May 2010 06:19:00

Church Times has this article referring to these DifD cuts and impact on Greenbelt, for whom they were a partner. Appears besides increased ticket sales that the Methodist Church stepping in as a new partner has helped mean Greenbelt is not really adversely impacted by the DifD decisions.

The Methodist Church has issued this statement which includes the following rather useful info:

"The Church has sealed a three year partnership deal with Greenbelt organisers, which will see free tickets made available to Methodist ministers, deacons, preachers and worship leaders who have not attended the festival for the past five years. The free tickets, which must be claimed before 31 July via the Greenbelt office, will be on offer during the first two years of the partnership."

For fuller info see Dave's post a few days ago on the Church Times Blog and this Ekklesia article   both of which I had managed to miss earlier in the week.

Side issue: this bit of news sparked an interesting discussion with Third Party last night about Christian capitalism, branding and so forth - why is it kids start asking the most obsure questions just when you're ready to head off to bed? Most interesting part of the conversation was when I was explaining about church putting in money to things, and then any profit being ploughed back into other church or para-church projects - she turned round and commented, "so it's a bit like money laundering but not illegal".