Beginning a Church at the Margins Course Workbook
This resource has all you need to run a course with a small group of 3-12 people 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.
Download individual chapters
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
Church at the Margins practitioners session
We’re delighted that we'll soon be able to invite you to an online session to share good practice, key insights and facilitate learning among Church at the Margins practitioners.
You will be able to join one or all of these 90-minute sessions:
Details will be available here soon.
Beginning a Church at the Margins introductory weekends at Cliff College (occasionally online)
Across Britain 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.
Details of the next CaM introductory weekend will be available here soon.