Beth Keith has published a report Authentic Faith: Fresh Expressions of Church Among Young Adults. The overall picture is not good in the church for this age group – the church is failing to reach and
I was invited to visit the Diocese of Seoul by Rev Ambrose Kim, well known to CMS Asia and to CMS in Britain. This was something of a surprise but I felt that it was a
Katharine Crowsley who is in the second year on the pioneer course has some of the story of cook@chapel on the fresh expressions web site. It was also good to see Kim’s interview which was a
It’s kind of depressing that there are still area of the church that are negative about fresh expressions of church and want to hold on to the parish system as the answer to everything. If it
Annie Kirke reflects on her experience in pioneer ministry and the challenge of measuring success [on the Fresh Expressions website]. She floats the idea of measures like these… As new measurables for professed and unprofessed disciples
Fresh expressions has been going long enough now for the impact to begin to be measured. Measuring always makes me nervous but I get that people need to be able to see what is changing and
I have an article posted today on the Fresh Expressions web site on Five Things I Have Learned. This is me stepping back and trying to articulate what we have learned after two years of the
Just set to retire, Angela and Chris Howarth found themselves called to lead a church in an urban priority area of Coventry. They are also students on the CMS Pioneer Mission Leadership training course. Helen Harwood
This video from Fresh Expressions (which is nice and short) chooses three CMS pioneers to ask about what new monasticism is… I can’t say I had thought CMS were leading lights in this but I guess
This month, in our series of interviews with Pioneer students, Helen Harwood meets Katharine Crowsley, who has launched a fresh expression of church that teaches teenagers to cook. Katharine, can I ask you how you heard