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Growing Small Churches
In trying to grow healthy churches across the UK, small churches may not often get
much attention. Over 2016 and 2017 we have run a number of events, together with
Grace Baptist Partnership and AGBC(SE) under the banner ‘Growing Small Churches.’
This event was a day conference to help smaller churches look at their own situations
and ask how they can grow. The focus of the day covered three key questions: How
can we make an impact in our evangelism? How can we develop leadership and direction
in the church? What can we learn for our situation from cross-
Nigel Hoad of AGBC (South East) Home Mission led the first session on ‘Can a church
like us do evangelism?’ In what ways should a small church best use its time in reaching
out to their community? Barry King (Grace Baptist Partnership) looked at the vital
issue of leadership. How can a small church identify and train new leaders from among
its members? Jim Sayers (GBM) explored how small churches can learn from world mission.
How is it that we can be zealous in supporting and praying for pioneer missionaries
on the other side of the world, but neglect mission in our own town or village? What
can a small church learn from cross-
While there are regions of the country where we have yet to hold this event, no further dates have been scheduled for this event. News of upcoming ‘Growing Small Churches’ events will be posted here.
Talks given at the Wiltshire ‘Growing small churches’ day can be downloaded here:
Nigel Hoad
Barry King
Jim Sayers