Ministry / Mission

A handbook for developing a healthy multicultural church community, to enable ministers to develop skills and confidence in leading their community.

For those exploring a sense of call - to ordained ministry, another vocation or to a change of direction in life, spiritual director and vocations advisor Julia Mourant offers thirty simple spiritual exercises for exploration and discernment. Each one is rooted in intuitive understanding and God-given inner wisdom.

Following her Sunday Times bestselling volume on evangelism as a way of life for individuals, Hannah Steele seeks to inspire the local church to understand itself as a community of missionary disciples in this riveting new book.

In trying to understand the relationship of the British people to religion - specifically Christianity - we tend to say that people: believe - or do not; attend - or do not. The argument of Lost Church is that the majority of people do not really fit either of these categories.

A prompt and refresher for any pastor-teacher at any stage of ministry. Checkup consists of 36 questions from 2 Timothy, each forming a chapter.

Local church life is changing radically and clergy deployment with it. Multi-congregational groupings are increasingly the norm with fewer stipendiary clergy. As ministry increasingly becomes the responsibility of local congregations and priesthood more about supervision, this guide explores the theology of this model and how it works in practice.

January 2024 marks the 20th anniversary of the start of the Fresh Expressions movement. Graham Cray, its first National Leader, offers a theological understanding of the missional nature of the church as a resource for ministerial and pioneer training.

A refreshing vision of Christian ministry from one of the Church of England's most popular speakers and writers

This book examines the distinctive form of social and communal life created by the Anglican parish: applying and advancing the emerging discipline of place theology by filling a conspicuous gap in contemporary scholarship.