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A Case Study:Fresh expressions of Church
& Pioneer Development Workers
“As the Father has sent me, so I send you.” John 20.21
1m people300k in diverse city5 uni/market townslots of very rural
313 church buildings30 larger (100+) worshipping communities225 smaller ones (less than 50 worshippers)50 worshipping communities of less than 10
Changing the landscape…Lincoln 2010
‘You called, You shouted,You broke through my deafness,
You flared, blazed andbanished my blindness,
Your lavished Your fragranceand I gasped…’
Augustine of Hippo (354-430), Confessions X.27
The calling…1. As many mature, growing fresh expressions of Church in 2030 as
inherited/continuing ones;
2. The vast majority (98%) led in the first instance by teams of licensed Pioneers (most lay, volunteers) with a detailed package of support, accountability, training and development (with hopefully some growing into being paid and/or being called to ordination);
3. Nearly all diocesan ‘fresh expressions of Church’ resources going into supporting these licensed Pioneers.
A calling linked more to anecdote than evidence ...but a new equation was being formulated….
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People:Sent to Now
Sent Now Ratio
Adults 503 1229 2.4
Children 140 586 4.2
TOTALS 643 1815 2.8
Sent Now0
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AdultsChildren
Christian De-Churched Non-Churched0%
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Who was the Mission Task to reach?
AimResult
Note: the team sent out make up amajority of the Christians present
The weight of discernment…
Part of long term Diocesan vision
At same time as national StrategicDevelopment Funding comes on stream
Increase ownership across Diocese
More resources needed
Lives and communities transformed in God’s grace
Strong evidence for what was previously anecdotal
The gifts of God…
Mads Jonathan Matt Morgan Dowman Pitt
1. Discerning, enabling, training, accompanying and coaching lay volunteer teams of licensed Pioneers
2. Grounded in a particular fresh expression of Church (a day a week-ish)
3. Each taking the lead in one specialism: Jonathan - learning & teaching Mads - developing practice Matt - research
Output/outcome As of Spring 2014 Target Autumn 2019 Target 2030
Growing number of active and maturing fresh expressions of Church
65 (estimate) 180 320
Growing number of licensed Pioneers
15 250-350 640
Growing number of members of fresh expressions of Church
1,858 people(slightly out of date)
7,000 people 15,000 people
Growing levels of engagement with non- and de-Churched people
500 people Churched;700 x De-Churched;650 x Non-Churched
1,500 x Churched2,000 x De-Churched
3,500 x Non-Churched
3,000 x Churched4,000 x De-Churched
8,000 x Non-Churched
Generating a greater learning culture; growing levels of positive systemic change and greater inclination towards risk taking, talking about failure and missional enterprise (targets and measures being developed in January using the Transformational Index tool)
Increasing amounts of financial giving by fresh expressions of Church into the Parish Gift scheme
Negligible directly, some indirectly (through their
‘host’ parish)
Enough (direct and indirectly) to fund an
Archdeacon for Pioneers, or equivalent role
Enough (direct and indirectly) to fund all necessary oversight,
development, support and training roles in their
own right
A range of qualitative, quantatative and holistic measures are used in measurement. 2019 mid way points based on ‘The Diffusion of Innovations’ by Everett Rogers
“People say, ‘what is the sense in our small effort?’ They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time. A pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. No one has the right to sit down and feel hopeless.” Dorothy Day
A Case Study:Fresh expressions of Church
& Pioneer Development Workers