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1. http://davemale.typepad.com/churchunplugged/ www.centreforpioneerlearning.org.uk

3. Pioneer Ministry

4. Self identity Who am I? How do I identify myself as a pioneering leader? Who does the church think I am?

5. What’s happening?

8. I am not in the office at the moment. Send any work to be translated.

9. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” Marcel Proust

10. 2004 30,000 copies sold Unanimous approval at General Synod Discussed and implemented in Dioceses Influence in UK Ecumenical Worldwide influence

11. A fresh expression is a form of church for our changing culture established primarily for the benefit of people who are not yet members of any church.

12. The Mixed Economy

13. both-and continue to grow and develop the church as it is establish fresh expressions of church

14. This is not new but fresh

15. 2007 Tear Fund survey of 7000 adults in contact or not with church

16. “ this majority (66%) presents a major challenge to churches. Most of them are unreceptive and closed to attending church; churchgoing is simply not on their agenda.” Churchgoing in the UK. A research report from Tearfund. April 2007

17. ‘ the church is missionary by it’s very nature……. the church does not have a mission but the mission has a church.’ Prophetic Dialogue. Bevans and Scroeder

18. Headlines On average 10% of church attendance 15% of church communities. In 7 out of 10 dioceses it reversed the decline in average weekly church attendance 20 different models of FX & across socio-economic groups. 75% people outside church, 40% unchurched, 35% dechurched 5820 team sent out, 20,863 now attending. 250% growth rate. ‘ Nothing else in the CofE has this level of missional impact and adding further ecclesial communities.’ 40% started in 2010-2012

19. 20 types of fxc- most common are Messy Churches, Café Churches and child focused church. The average size is 44 and starting team size is 3-12. 91% are new ecclesial groups Large teams and transplants are 1.2%- team 50+ 7.4%-team 20-49 83% parish, 11% deanery and 6% Diocese. 45% progression and 61% pioneer.

20. 33% have communion services 10% Messy Churches 60% weekly gatherings 33% have baptisms 62% of fxc have grown or maintained 10% have died. 48% ordained – 66% male 52% lay- 66% female https://www.freshexpressions.org.uk/research

21. Comments & Questions for discussion?

22. Six basic principles

23. 1 There is no return address

24. ‘ The defining aspect of this change of epoch is that things are no longer in their place…… we cannot simply wait for what we are experiencing to pass under the illusion that things will return to being how they were before.’ Pope Francis.

25. Half the picture Judea Samaria Ends of the Earth Jerusalem

26. The eccentric effects… The ends of the earth Samaria Judea The centre and the Acts story shift Samaria is not a return ticket story moves from a focus on Peter to Paul the Church goes west church is done differently among Gentiles

27. In working with young people . . . do not try to call them back to where they were, and do not try to call them to where you are, as beautiful as that place might seem to you. You must have the courage to go with them to a place that neither you nor they have ever been before. Christianity Rediscovered: An Epistle from the Masai (1978)

28. 2 Public worship services probably are not the best starting point

30. Prayer Love Relate Create Prayer

31. 3 Who is church for?

32. Church as a place where • certain things take place • to • a body of people sent on a mission • Community gathered by a common calling & vocation • to be a sent people • God centred mission rather than church centred • church as missional with calling and sending action of • God forming its identity

33. "The church is not the sender but the one sent. Its mission (its "being sent") is not secondary to its being; the church exists in being sent and in building up itself for the sake of its mission.“ David Bosch, Transforming Mission.

34. The ship is safest when its in the port. But that’s not what ships were made for.

35. Playing Away

36. 4 Discipleship rather than attendance

37. ‘ We would intend to make disciples and let converts happen rather than intending to make converts and let disciples happen.’ The Divine Conspiracy, p334.

38. “If not part of a mutually discipling community the culture will disciple you.” Graham Cray

40. What kind of people are we called to be? What kind of community is capable of raising people like that?

41. 5 Church is multi level

42. “every expression of the church is, in it’s own way, another worked example of what the encounter with Christ looks like in the life of a particular community.”

43. Church as four sets of relationships. up of out in Moynagh, Church for Every Context p 106.

44. ‘not leaving the tradition but driving to it’s heart’ Gerald Arbuckle, Refounding the Church

45. 6 This might change US

46. Dying to live “ I tell you the truth, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.” John 12; 23-6

47. What might this mean for the structures and shape of your church?

48. Archegos

49. Archegos ‘looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfector of our faith’ Hebrews 12;2 ‘in bringing many children to glory, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through sufferings.’ Hebrews 2:10 ‘and you killed the pioneer (author) of life, whom God raised from the dead’ Acts 3;15 God exalted him at his right hand as Pioneer (Leader) and Saviour’ Acts 5;31

50. Archegos ‘one who takes a lead in, or provides the first occasion of anything.’