Category Archives: Stories from the front
New Thinking and New Ways
“Strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow…” Part 2 of Ruth Smith’s series Many modern day Christians will not know that this phrase, which I also used in my last blog, was taken from the old hymn Great is … Continue reading →
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Tagged change, Church, community engagement, new thinking, thinking, welcome
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Urban Villages – Radical Church part 1
This is a post written by Ruth Smith, one of our Community Mission Advisors, after her work in the Diocese of Durham and experience of urban villages. This is the first in a three part blog series looking at what … Continue reading →
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Tagged change, Church, Durham Diocese, England, faith, London, Ruth Smith, Urban area, Urban village, Village
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Creative tension
This week we have a new guest blogger, who is going to be writing a series of blogs for us following on from his doctoral research into tensions that charismatic evangelical churches face in their community mission. This post is … Continue reading →
Posted in Andy Weir, community, Guest blog, Stories from the front
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Tagged Christian, Christianity, Church, Churches, community, community engagement, community mission, Evangelicalism, God, problems, Religion and Spirituality, research, tension
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b.friend
During my working day I encounter a wide variety of different community projects, which aim to target different problems they see around them. Our guest blogger today tells of her journey to implementing a project for churches in Bristol to … Continue reading →
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Tagged asylum seeker, Bristol, Church, community, Refugee, support
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Emergent Church in action with Robes
Mat Ray is a member of the Community Mission team, when asked about his experience of social action in the community he answered with this: What happens when an emergent church joins a traditional social action project? What does my … Continue reading →
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Tagged Church (building), community, Homeless shelter, homelessness, London
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Baraka – blessing in action (& coffee)
Some years ago I spent a number of weekends away with friends. Each Friday when we met we started our evening meal with something called Baraka. I had no idea what that meant, other than what I would mean by … Continue reading →
The Community Engagement blog 
A church response to the Scottish Referendum
Here Rev Chris Knights speaks about his experience of how the Church can support the community whilst staying neutral during the lead up to the Independence Referendum in Scotland. These are his thoughts on what the church role should be … Continue reading →