A sneak preview of Spring’s Ignite.

It’s just landed in the office and may have already landed on your doorstep. Spring’s Ignite is here and jam-packed with stories we hope will challenge and inspire you.

Our front-page story looks at how a Counties trainee evangelist is using her experiences of ethnicity to help show us we are all the body of Christ.

Cheryl Magowan is mixed raced but neither of her parents spoke about racial identity as she grew up.

Cheryl, however: “wanted to know who I was” after experiencing many bouts of racism from a tender age. She tells Ignite about coming to faith and the experiences she and her mum, Ivy, witnessed in predominately white churches.

Cheryl is now using her experiences on Counties’ Evangelist Training Programme. She is now writing an easy-to-follow booklet to help churches address issues of ethnicity, with one accord.

She says: “I hope it may well help us all to keep Jesus’ commandment, to simply, ‘love one another’.”