Beginning a Church at the Margins Taster
A 60-minute online conversation
Join us for a conversation to discover how you can listen, connect, and see a new Christian community at the economic margins can emerge.
For: People within the UK who want to build new Christian communities amongst people struggling financially.
When (click below to book):
Led by: Eunice Attwood, Church at the Margins Officer and Church at the Margins Pioneers
Beginning a Church at the Margins introductory weekends at Cliff College 2025
Across the UK poverty is deepening and widening. That’s why the Methodist Church is prioritising creating new Christian communities amongst and led by people who are struggling financially.
Come and join this weekend to learn from Church at the Margins pioneers how to listen and start new forms of Christian community amongst and led by people experiencing poverty.
For: People who want to listen and gather with people in low-income communities and facing financial hardship.
When:
Spring course: 6pm on Friday 21 March until lunch at 1pm on Sunday 23 March 2025, book your place
Autumn course: 6pm on Friday 7 November until lunch at 1pm on Sunday 9 November 2025 book your place
Led by: Eunice Attwood, Church at the Margins officer and Revd Neil Johnson, Church at the Margins Pioneer of the Street Banquet community.
Beginning a Church at the Margins resource
Who is it for? Small groups of people (3-12) who want to begin a new Christian community amongst people experiencing poverty.
How to run the course:
- There are six sessions of around 90-120 minutes. This could be done in one sitting with a break, or you might like to take longer and split the sessions over a longer period of time. Ideally, the small group will be facilitated by someone who takes responsibility for setting the times, dates and venue for meeting.
- We recommend running the course fortnightly to give space for the practical activity between each of the sessions.
- This resource contains all the key messages to enable a group to journey together.
- Some video links are included in the sessions, optional if technology is not easily available.
You can access the workbook via the link above or individual chapters here:
Session 1 Introducing the resource
Session 2 Vision and Values
Session 3 Creating connections
Session 4 Nurturing communities
Session 5 Sharing the gospel
Session 6 Seeing transformation
Next Steps