Starting Your Messy Church

Content

Everything you need to get your Messy Church going!

The bigger picture... What Messy Church is and isn't... Why the values?... Commitment needed... Checklist of starting strategies... Why the network?... Questions to ask... What to expect... Organising your team... Sustaining your Messy Church... Review questions

This resource is for churches who want to see what's involved in starting up a Messy Church, or who are ready to go ahead with one. It includes checklists, milestones, questions to ask a Messy Church you're visiting, review strategies and a resources section.

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Author info

Lucy Moore is BRF's Messy Church Team Leader, responsible for developing the work of Messy Church nationally and internationally. She continues to help lead Messy Church in her own church. Jane Leadbetter is part of the BRF Messy Church team. She has worked as a primary school teacher and was Children's Work Adviser in the Diocese of Liverpool for 12 years. She runs L19: Messy Church once a month.

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Reviews

From The Church Times - 17 February 2012

MESSY CHURCH, say Lucy Moore and Jane Leadbetter, is not a children's church, nor a way of attracting more people to a church's existing services. It is, they explain in Starting Your Messy Church: A beginner's guide for churches, a form of church for children and adults which involves creativity, celebration, and hospitality. It meets at a time and sometimes in a place that suit people who don't belong to a church.

'The way you go about making disciples may involve horrifying amounts of icing sugar and glitter glue,' they say - but making disciples is what it's all about. The aim is 'to introduce Jesus through hospitality, friendship, stories, and worship'.

Lucy Moore is the Bible Reading Fellowship's Messy Church Team Leader, and her co-author is a member of the team. Their small book is jolly, encouraging, and full of good and detailed advice for those interested in this kind of wor ship.

Book details

• ISBN: 9780857460509
• Published: 20 January 2012
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• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 64