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Nov 3, 2026
Nissar HussainGUEST
Justin Welby, in a chance encounter, 15 months prior to my brutal attack, And I was at a Canberra Sands big top tent meeting with this chappy, Nicky Gumbel, who has a big name with these Anglicans.
Nissar HussainGUEST
I think he's the chappy that wrote, what is it? He founded the Alpha Course.
Nissar HussainGUEST
That's it.
Nissar HussainGUEST
That's
LindsayGUEST
So if you're seeking, these are kind of things that you can opt into.
LindsayGUEST
And then from that, then we might do something like Alpha Course, Discovery Bible Study.
LindsayGUEST
People may come to Outdoor Church.
LindsayGUEST
We've been strategically thinking about where do we want to put our energy into the resources? If we put them all into community at the very beginning, we've got no capacity left for the other things.
Jemimah WrightHOST
She's trained as a barrister and previously worked with Justice and Care in India, managing investigations to rescue women and children who had been trafficked.
Jemimah WrightHOST
She's also the daughter of Nikki and Pippa Gumbel, the founders of the Alpha Course, and grew up travelling with her parents as Alpha expanded around the world, giving her a unique perspective on what it was like to watch a global Christian movement grow from the inside.
Jemimah WrightHOST
Bex is married to Miles and they have three children with the best names, Brave, Freedom and Passion.
Jemimah WrightHOST
And she hosts the What You Set In Motion podcast, sharing stories of lives transformed by faith.
Jemimah WrightHOST
And from what I've...
Jemimah WrightHOST
I don't know if this is right, but let me see where it is.
Jemimah WrightHOST
I've looked up Alpha Course.
Jemimah WrightHOST
I think the 2025 report says 2.8 million people participated in Alpha in 2025.
ChloeGUEST
He starts feeling hot and trembling, and he suddenly feels the love of Jesus fill his heart.
ChloeGUEST
So he calls his cousin, who he knows is a Christian pastor, and his cousin says, have you ever heard of the Alpha Course? I I think you should go on it and explore a little bit more because Alpha is a great opportunity to come and explore the big questions of life where there's no pressure and you can just describe for people who wouldn't necessarily call themselves Christians, but you can go and find out more about Christianity and Jesus.
ChloeGUEST
And so Anand, he Googles Alpha in Wales and he turns up at our Alpha in Swansea.
ChloeGUEST
And night one of Alpha, we go around and there's a small group discussion, this opportunity to just share what you think.
SuzanneGUEST
So as you said, I run outreach and evangelism at church.
SuzanneGUEST
So I run the Alpha Course at church.
SuzanneGUEST
That's something we do twice a year.
SuzanneGUEST
And we have seen young men specifically come to church.
SuzanneGUEST
the things that we're seeing.
FelHOST
I love that.
FelHOST
I'm just wondering, for someone listening somewhere else in Australia right now, can you pinpoint some of the things that you've done that have helped to bring, obviously it's God, but there's obviously some natural things, the Alpha courses that you've done that have encouraged young people to come to church? Yeah.
SuzanneGUEST
Well, there's another thing that we're doing.
Alex PhillipsGUEST
And it is growing churches, not just in the UK, but all around the world.
Alex PhillipsGUEST
They teach this thing called the Alpha Course.
Alex PhillipsGUEST
And certainly the generation coming up below me They're fascinated.
Alex PhillipsGUEST
They know something's missing.
Mara EinsteinGUEST
And Barna is also a marketing company that works with churches.
Mara EinsteinGUEST
Also connected to that is the Alpha Course.
Mara EinsteinGUEST
And people may be familiar with the Alpha Course.
Mara EinsteinGUEST
The Alpha Course is a 10-week course.
Mara EinsteinGUEST
It's an evangelical course that was started in the U.K., And what happens is that people are invited as a group for 10 weeks to get together, have dinner together, watch the video slash DVD of the talk, and then ask questions about about what it was that they learned, but very much from an evangelical perspective.
Mara EinsteinGUEST
When I was researching brands of faith, I attended a couple of those, and you'll appreciate this.
Talia DeanGUEST
I enjoy exploring.
Talia DeanGUEST
And I think that mainly comes from when I went on the Alpha course.
Talia DeanGUEST
um it was a churches together alpha course so everyone yeah that's alpha course is
Ben HancockHOST
quite big in the uk so alpha course for those who don't know is kind of um you can go on and it's almost like an introduction to to christianity right and it's run is it run by the church of england but with a few other yeah
Talia DeanGUEST
nicky nicky gumball i think he is yeah church of england protest i don't know he's not catholic i know that much but we run it in the catholic church and everybody was invited you know the united churches and the king's way and um the uh the protestants and the catholics and we were all together and i thought this is really nice i love this i really really enjoyed it i enjoyed it and i i i even expand it further than that you know i'm really interested in um the torah and i still find that deeply fascinating and um i research about ethiopia and and the orthodox and i'm just so deeply fascinated by all of it and what everybody takes from it all and and i think it's quite nice to to do that you know when jesus when jesus taught he he didn't talk to the converted you know he he preached to everybody and that's tax men and thieves and you know ladies at the night and and and jenna gentiles and um murderers you know he just he just he he had one word and everybody needed to hear it and it didn't matter who you were where you were from the romans to the greeks to you know everybody and i think we need to keep bringing it back to that keep bringing it back to that and i think that's been the hardest thing for me is when i came back to faith um and back into the catholic church i just for about six to eight months like i went in hard you know catholicism is the way and you know you know and i just went in so hard and i couldn't see any other being catholic and um and then with that used to come real regimented way of life and i think i became exhausted and i also became very judgmental of people um and i just realized no this this is not it this isn't it this isn't um This isn't what kind of Christian I want to be.
Talia DeanGUEST
And like you say, I'm very comfortable in my house, my Catholic house.
Jenny SimpsonGUEST
I met you before, I'm Jenny, and I'm the Associate Minister here.
Jenny SimpsonGUEST
And one of the things we do, one of the many things we do at WURBS is we run the Alpha Course, and it's a 10-week course where people can come along and explore a bit more about the Christian faith.
Jenny SimpsonGUEST
And week one of the course, we're in small groups.
Jenny SimpsonGUEST
We always ask the question, if it turned out that God did exist, what question would you ask him? I wonder what question, if you could have one question to ask God, what would you ask him? Why don't you just turn to the people around you and perhaps share, what is your question? I've definitely got many more than just one, but what question would you ask God? You've got one minute, turn to the people around you, what would that question be? feel free to come and share some of your questions with me afterwards.
Wayne MasseyHOST
You might know where I'm going.
Wayne MasseyHOST
But more than that, the church had started something called the Alpha Course, which is pretty much run in every country in the world.
Wayne MasseyHOST
Now, it doesn't mean that every vicar who prays at prayer, that's what happens next.
Wayne MasseyHOST
But it does mean that I wonder if my friend John had known when he was praying that one day people would sit in the balconies, what might happen through the church long after he was gone if they gave themselves to the purposes of God.
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