Organising for Growth: Growing inner-city churches in number, depth and impact
Six key themes have emerged from the Centre for Theology and Community’s research into community organising
Community relationships
| Diversity
| Lay leaders
| Leading through change
| New congregations
| Personal discipleship
| Prayer
| Small church
| Estates
| Mission
| New worshipping communities
| Inclusion
| Deprivation
| Funded project
| Low income communities
| Missionary disciples
| More diverse
| Parish revitalisation
| Partner
| People and Partnership Funding
| Strategic funding
| Volunteers
| Mixed ecology
| Leadership development
| PPF
| Centre for Theology and Community
| Community organising
| CTC
THIS REPORT PRESENTS THE STORIES of 15 churches, most of them in east London. They are surprising stories – perhaps most surprising to the churches themselves.
Many of the churches featured in this report had internalised the wider narrative that they were doomed to decline and ultimately to close, or that the only way to grow was to abandon their own spirituality and tradition. Yet, each of them has harnessed the potential of community organising to grow in number, depth and social impact.
Find out more in the report below:
There is also a video to accompany the report which you can watch here.
