About the Community Organising for Church Growth course
How can embracing Community Organising as a spiritual practice enable us to subvert conventional church growth narratives and achieve real growth in depth, impact and numbers? Join us for morning prayer, followed by an opportunity to share your breakfast in theological discussion and reflection with others. This event is organised in partnership with Citizens UK (www.citizensuk.org)
Community Organising in the UK is a fast-growing methodology for working through diverse alliances for change and justice in our communities. But it is also a potent force for leadership development, vocational discernment and congregational development and growth.
This is the second of three sessions in the series which begins 7 February 2024. In this session we will dig deeply into what is means to be an ‘organised church’: how this attracts new people into a church’s orbit through building relationships both internally and with the wider community; enables a disorganising of ‘established ways of doing things’ and a reorganising around ways of being church that include newcomers, give them a voice, and ensure the church is responsive to the context in which it is set.
About the tutors
Keith Hebden spent seven years as a Secondary School teacher in Leicester and then London where he was Head of R.E. then trained at to be a priest in the Church of England, serving in Gloucester and Mansfield. He then spent two years as Director of the Urban Theology Unit before retraining as a Community Organiser – work he was engaged in since 2009 – and now support a team of Organisers work with Thames Valley Citizens and a national Living Wage campaign.
Angus Ritchie is the Director of the Centre for Theology and Community, and author of Inclusive Populism: Creating Citizens in the Global Age.
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