You are warmly invited to PGP’s annual residential Bible teaching conference, Deepen 2027! Deepen is a key part of PGP’s aim to equip and encourage those in Bible teaching ministries in our churches to grow in their ability to handle and teach God’s Word faithfully. Through main talks and workshop groups we will see faithful expository teaching modelled, and have a chance to sharpen our own expository skills alongside peers who can offer encouragement.
Main talks
Our main speaker this year is Chris Sinkinson, an elder and regular Bible teacher at Lansdowne Church in Bournemouth, with many years’ experience teaching prospective Word ministers in Moorlands Theological College. He will be opening up the Old Testament book of Amos in our main talk sessions, as well as sharing some wisdom on apologetics, having pursued a research interest for many years in Biblical archaeology.
Workshop groups
The conference will feature workshop streams for regular preachers, occasional Bible teachers and homegroup Bible study leaders, women’s ministry leaders and youth and children’s ministry leaders – whether in full-time, part-time or voluntary ministry roles.
Networking
We hope that the conference will be a time to build and strengthen friendships between our churches, especially as we meet others who minister locally to us, or work in similar roles in their own churches. We will also have some time to think and pray strategically about how we might see more Bible-teaching, Christ-exalting, people-loving churches planted and strengthened across Devon and Cornwall.
Key details
Venue: The Queen’s Hotel, Paignton
Dates: 18th-20th January 2027
Cost:
£130 (early-bird price until 30th November 2026)
£160 (price from 1st December 2026)
To book, click HERE
The programme is well advanced, with just a few details still to finalise. Here’s what you can expect from our time together:
| Monday 18th January | |
| 2:00 pm | Arrive & registration |
| 3:00 – 4:15 pm | Welcome, prayer & praise; Vision of PGP; Talk 1 |
| 4:15 – 4:45 pm | Tea break |
| 4:45 – 6:00 pm | Workshop groups 1 — introductions & prayer and first Bible passage |
| 6:30 pm | Dinner |
| 8:00 – 9:00 pm | Interview & Q&A with speaker |
| Tuesday 19th January | |
| 8:00 – 9:00 am | Breakfast |
| 10:00 – 11:00 am | Talk 2 |
| 11:00 – 11:30 am | Coffee |
| 11:30 – 12:30 pm | Workshop groups 2 |
| 12:45 pm | Lunch |
| Afternoon | Free time / walk |
| 4:00 – 5:00 pm | Talk 3 |
| 5:00 – 5:15 pm | Tea break |
| 5:15 – 6:30 pm | Workshop groups 3 – ministry partnership across the region |
| 7:00 pm | Dinner |
| Wednesday 20th January | |
| 8:00 – 9:00 am | Breakfast |
| 10:00 – 11:15 am | Workshop groups 5 |
| 11:15 – 11:45 am | Coffee |
| 11:45 – 12:45 pm | Talk 4 |
| 1:00 pm | Lunch |
| 2:00 pm | Depart |
The skills that we’ll be learning and refining on this conference are absolutely vital if we’re going to be effective “workers with the Word” in our churches.
But it’s also very special to be doing this as part of groups – your own individual workshop groups, or the broader group of people from numerous churches around the Devon and Cornwall area.
It is just such a huge encouragement to find that we are in this work together. Even if it’s people from a slightly different kind of church background, we’re all committed to Jesus Christ: “him we preach”, as fellow-servants, looking and praying that the Word of God would dwell in us richly, so that we can also faithfully and effectively pass on this Word of life to others.
Come to be encouraged and help to grow in this grace … and to help the rest of us to grow, as well!
