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Question 11 - What is happening in other denominations and streams?

Close-up of the Millennium Eye in LondonThere are parallel developments in most denominations and, indeed, in other parts of the world:

The Baptist Church is developing new ways of being church alongside Urban Expression. It is partnering Fresh Expressions in some regions in running the mission shaped ministry course.

The Congregational Federation began to take fresh expressions seriously in 2005 when a few pioneers broke free of traditional models with the experimental concepts of café church in Bristol and Herstmonceaux. The Federation is committed to seeing the Fresh Expressions initiative as a contextualised way of engaging in mission in local communities within the partnership of the wider church. One of the national Fresh Expressions team is seconded from the Congregational Federation.

The Ground Level Network of churches is very involved in mission shaped ministry and was instrumental in devising it. The network has been involved in vision days and setting up mission shaped intro. Two members of Ground Level serve on the national Fresh Expressions team.

The United Reformed Church and The Salvation Army are involved in vision days and mission shaped intro in some regions.

 

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