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Missional Learning Communities

Missional Learning Communities (MLCs) help us to find God’s way forward in mission in our changing contexts and changing world – transforming the culture of the church.
MLCs follow a three year path that gives churches a framework and resources to help them listen attentively to God and their community and decide what God might be calling them to be and do.

The combination of commitment, spiritual disciplines and practical tools make MLCs a powerful process. The evidence is that this kind of process can lead to profound and positive change.

Find out more here.

Resources to Inspire & Equip you for Mission

Discerning the Mission of God through Missional Learning Communities

P Keifert and N Rooms, Forming the Missional Church: Creating Deep Cultural Change in Congregations (Grove Pastoral P139, 2014)
Pat Keifert, We Are Here Now. (Eagle, Idaho: Allelon Publishing, 2007)
Nigel Rooms, Missional Church: What Does Good Look Like? (Grove Mission and Evangelism MEv 128, 2019)
Mission Action Planning

For a more detailed reading list, please contact Mission & Growth Adviser Steve Coneys (07511901334)

Fresh Expressions

The Fresh Expressions website is your best starting point and the latest research on Fresh Expressions can be found on the Church Army website. The following are particularly helpful:

Michael Moynagh, Being Church, Doing Life (Lion Hudson, 2014) - a good introduction to the landscape

Discerning the Mission of God in general

Mark Ireland and Mark Chew, Mission Action Planning – prayer, process and practice (Revised edition, SPCK, 2016)
Asset Based Community Development

Growing the Church of God

From Anecdote to Evidence (2014, Church Growth Research Programme)
From Evidence to Action (2016 Archbishops’ Council)
Shaping strategies for mission and growth in rural multi-church groups (2017, Archbishops’ Council)
What makes Churches grow? – Bob Jackson, Church House Publishing

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