How do you get families who don’t come to church, to come to church? Introduce them to Messy Church! After a listening campaign involving young families around Lucy Moore’s church, volunteers crafted a new way to do church that’s be welcoming, accessible, and inclusive of families who don’t regularly attend church services. The basic structure, [...]

Inspiring people about the wonders of the Bible has been Bishop NT ‘Tom’ Wright’s sustaining passion – which he believes is at the heart of congregational health and vitality. The former bishop, New Testament Scholar, and author (the new one is How God Became King) says Christian leadership has always been about the same four [...]

Duke Chapel dean Sam Wells says a first step toward inspiring health in a congregation is to affirm the people who are there and stop lamenting the people who aren’t. Dean Wells, a world-class preacher, prolific writer, gifted theologian, and devoted pastor who’s worked in a variety of ministerial settings, is incredibly hopeful about the [...]

Reports on the death of the Church of England are greatly exaggerated, says the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Missioner, Bishop Graham Cray. The bishop is the C of E’s head church planter – and leads a movement called Fresh Expressions, which consolidates the evangelism efforts of several UK denominations into a united front that majors on [...]

Perhaps the only thing more challenging than growing a young adult ministry may be growing a young adult ministry in secular England…  Yet college chaplain, author and theologian Maggi Dawn has done just that. A musician by background, liturgist at heart, and writer of growing renown, Maggi tells us how she found and engineered growth [...]