Rooted, Relevant & Reimagined

Rooted, Relevant and Reimagined

Saturday 13 September from 9:30am

*UPDATE*

Trey Hall has shared some additional resources that you may find useful:

1. Rooted and New report available as a PDF download (see below)

2. Growth planning:

• Methodist Church website; https://www.methodist.org.uk/for-churches/evangelism-growth/lead-churches-into-growth/planning-for-growth/
• Our Churches Future story, available from Methodist Publishing: https://www.methodistpublishing.org.uk/books/EGOCFS25/our-churchs-future-story

3. Starting New Places for New People:

• https://www.methodist.org.uk/for-churches/evangelism-growth/new-places-for-new-people/

4. Methodist Way of Life:

• https://methodist.org.uk/mwol

Our District Gathering was be on the theme of Rooted, Relevant and Reimagined – being the church for today's world. It was recorded and you can watch it here: https://youtu.be/glEWqsmTrig

Our morning session was led by the new District Chair – Revd Vicky Atkins, and Trey Hall, Director of Evangelism and Growth in the Methodist Church. The afternoon had 4 workshop sessions exploring different aspects of the theme. :

Nurturing Contextual Faith Communities
Exploring how new people, pioneers, churches and circuits all gain from supporting and listening to the pioneers in our midst led by Dr Heather Major, Cliff College Research Fellow in New Places for New People, Evangelism & Growth

Eco Church next steps
Why and how to get started and keep journeying with the Eco Church framework led by Hamish Leese, the Director of Environmental Engagement, supporting Methodism on a path to becoming a net zero church

Revitalising small churches in context
Reclaiming local lay leadership to reimagine mission led by Erica Dunmow, Chair of Trustees of Urban Theology Union, District EDI Officer and a member of Churches Together in England's Urban Mission Network

Adaptive leadership
Growing resilient teams for an era of uncertain change led by Trey Hall, Director of Evangelism and Growth

Within the District Gathering we will hold the life of Methodism across our district in prayer, renew our relationship with our wider Connexional church, and make any formal decisions required of us as a district – the work of the representative synod.