We were becoming convinced that a missional God who attends to us in person and in place was calling and empowering us to do the same. What might it look like for us to live among our neighbours as neighbours, community stakeholders alongside them. Could we be neighbours...

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2014 sees our hearts divided between our long-loved scattered church and the local Stroud Green neighbourhood, where we are growing roots.   I begin this reflection with both trepidation (as I know some would criticise my scattered church) and hope (for a clearer vision).

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Can God be found on the streets of Munich? Munich, of all places, a city of wealth, pride and power with its designer stores and business headquarters?  It was Father Christian Herwartz SJ who encouraged us, a group of men from all over Germany, to believe just that. So we met in St. Martin’s Lutheran Church, slept on the balcony of the sanctuary, met for breakfast and prayer in the mornings and then set off individually into the bustle and noise of the streets.

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I met Joseph over a meal at a Springdale College Summer School. I was immediately gripped by his stories from Tyneside- how could such an ‘outsider’ find connection in that challenging environment. Martin Robinson interviewed Pastor Joseph during Inhabit UK, and...

Nearly 13 years ago our family moved onto Weoley Castle, a large council estate in South Birmingham. It’s a struggling estate- falling into the lowest 10% for deprivation. Our milkman refused to deliver there. We had lived nearby for a...

Croeso I eglwys Penycae gymdogaeth y Nasaread….Welcome to Penycae Church of the Nazarene – everything has to be bi-lingual in Wales. We are in Penycae, a North Wales village just over the border from Chester in England. Our nearest town...

It all began with a food bank – the Halifax Food and Support Drop In. However, the aspiration was not only to give out food but also to build relationships that would draw people to Jesus. After a year of...

I visited Evesham in 2009 for the Northumbria Community Easter Workshop. Easter Workshop is an annual event, but normally centred on the Community’s mother house in Northumberland. But this year I, with around fifty other Community people, dined in church...

The pastors of the Norwegian Mission Covenant Church gather once a year for a four day retreat. We have a long history of meeting at Christian resorts, but for the last two years we have for various reasons met at...

Viv Presott is an officer in the Salvation Army. This is the story of her church plant at her home in the Forest of Dean. The Forest of Dean is an unusual place in many ways.  It is located on...