New guidance for smaller churches considering a merger

Each small church has a gift to offer its community, a part to play in God's mission, and a share in God’s hopeful future. Sometimes living into this hope will mean joining with another church to share resources. Sometimes it will mean letting go of a cherished building in order to worship in people's homes or in a community centre. Whatever the end result, each small church gets there by starting with its mission: its particular part of God's calling to share the love of Christ with the world. These new webpages offer guidance and resources for circuit mission planning, including different models of merger, and details of all the help that’s available. See this page of the Methodist Church website.