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Musing on growing churches
30th Jan 2014The two reports about church growth that came out recently are exercising my mind. Two issues come out of them which have ...
We’re so BIG!
30th Jan 2014It was a delight to receive this email from Yvonne in Southwick. If there are any Messy Churches which are similarly large...
A Messy Christmas Baptism
30th Jan 2014Alison Paginton, Regional Coordinator in the Bristol area sent us this great baptism account. Our Messy Church Christmas s...
Messy St Paul’s Cathedral
27th Jan 2014Messy Church and Tidy St. Paul’s aren’t natural bedfellows but amazingly the afternoon of 25 January they got ...
Lambeth Listening
24th Jan 2014Martyn and I had a happy day at Lambeth Palace yesterday. We were invited to be part of a listening process headed up (ear...
BBC report
21st Jan 2014As you may have gathered, Messy Church was featured on Radio 4’s Sunday programme this week. Originally this was goi...
Teenagers’ Day Report
21st Jan 2014Martyn Payne, in his ‘listening’ role has written this excellent summary of our day with teenagers in Yate on ...
Teenagers in Messy Church
17th Jan 2014The report about Fresh Expressions gives us much food for Messy thought. I’ve no doubt we’ll be writing and ta...
Messy Baptisms for the new year
14th Jan 2014Whoop: good to start blogging again in 2014 with some good news. Not only has Trudi Oliver posted on the Messy Church Face...
Messy Church Theology
29th Nov 2013Sue Fulford writes: Messy Church Theology – what does this mean to you? Could you identify a theology from your own ...
Messy Church is great because…
5th Nov 2013There was a fantastic day earlier this year about Messy Church, hosted by Southwell Diocese. Nick Harding was kind enough ...
‘We were more like a rainbow’
5th Nov 2013I was privileged to meet the inspirational Nina Leinum Norgaard, a church lay worker, on my most recent visit to Denmark (...