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Community Engagement

Find out how the team can help you connect your church with the local community.

Churches thrive when they are open, welcoming and well connected with their local community. The Community Engagement Team can offer you support to develop your welcome and those connections. Through building relationships with local people and organisations, you can explore a viable and vibrant future for your church, and new opportunities for Christian mission.

We can help you to:

· Develop an open and welcoming church

· Create a vision for your church in the community

· Get to know your community through neighbourhood mapping

· Hold community conversations to build relationships and understanding

· Explore new events in, and uses of, the church

· Engage local people through heritage

· Involve your community in reordering projects

· Increase participation, volunteering and community involvement.

We believe that community engagement and Christian mission go hand in hand. As people connect with a church through hospitality, heritage, events, wellbeing activities or community projects, opportunities emerge to build relationships, foster belonging and explore faith.

Whether your church is taking its first steps in community engagement or looking to build on existing strengths, we offer guidance, workshops, facilitation, training and practical support tailored to your context.

Together, we can help your church building become a valued place of worship, community life and mission, enabling community flourishing today while developing a viable and sustainable future for generations to come.