The WEBA New Churches Initiative is about a dream to plant 10 new churches in 10 years. Our focus in 2011 was Painswick, where the LEP had closed, and Roger Leigh of Cutting Edge Ministries was beginning to work with local people with the intention of forming a new missional group.
This update comes from the CEM blog . Thank you to all those churches who have faithfully given to our New Churches Initiative over the past year, enabling Roger to do this work, patiently planting, watching, and tending the seeds of kingdom growth in this part of Gloucestershire.
As you may know Roger has been working on behalf of the West of England
Baptist Association during the past nine months. This required actioning
a visitation programme in the well-to-do area of Painswick,
Gloucester.If you receive the CEM magazine you would have read that its
proved to be a difficult area to make any substantial progress in
planting a Church. However, Roger has persevered and decided it would be
appropriate to have a house Christmas Party to encourage awareness that
the intention is to develop a "Fresh Expressions" or "Emerging Church"
community group.
The response to the selective invites was very
positive with some twenty people attending. Roger engaged with Brian,
his able team member, the people assembled in both single and group
discussion. All this amongst the beautifully decorated venue, with
excellent Christmas music and sumptuous food which made for a very
worthwhile and entertaining evening.
We look forward with a great
measure of optimism that new people from this event will swell our
numbers in the new year. Giving us lift off to a new community group
which will allow people to explore their lives and understand more fully
the message of Jesus Christ and his impact on our world.
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