We want the world
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Small missional communities
Our vision
is to facilitate, encourage and enable the growth of a network of small missional communities and projects in the UK.
 This community has given me space to contribute whatever God has given me...has reawakened creativity in me, and has started to help me reconnect my faith and aspects of my life that had somehow come to inhabit separate boxes"
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Why the emphasis on community?
 Because Jesus called his disciples to live by community principles, and since those earliest times the followers of Jesus have perhaps most effectively embodied his presence by living out stories of community. In this wonderful but suffering world the need for new Christ-centred communities is as vital as it has ever been.
Why missional?
 Because followers of the Jesus found in the Gospels are called to look outwards, to engage lovingly and creatively with the world around them, to experience the risen Jesus sharing his life, and so to see lives changed and a world transformed.
Why small?
 Small is not necessarily a virtue on its own. But in Christian community smallness enables participation - and that is crucial if people are to shape and be shaped by their following of Christ in their own setting. Smallness enables real transformations, authentic relationships and gritty engagements with the world.
Further possibilities
How might this network come about? What might it look like?
Why CMS? Read more >
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Cave Refectory Road
 Ian Adams's book Cave Refectory Road: monastic rhythms for contemporary living is out now - and is an excellent resource for thinking about missional community. It's available from Amazon and from the publisher Canterbury Press.
http://tiny.cc/CRRfromAmazon
http://tiny.cc/CRRfromCanterburyPress
People are saying good things about it....
"If you know someone (perhaps yourself) who is spiritual but not religious I strongly suggest giving them this book. Ian Adams has beautifully and unabashedly mined the Christian monastic tradition and found gold for our spiritually impoverished time. You can find no better guide."
Nadia Bolz-Weber, founding pastor of House for all Sinners and Saints, a Lutheran mission church in Denver Colorado and author of 'Salvation on the Small Screen? 24 Hours of Christian Television' (Seabury 2008).
"This book is a gem. For those seeking to follow in the way of Christ today, Ian opens up the gifts and insights of religious communities in a very imaginative fashion. He manages the difficult art of writing in a way that has real depth but is still accessible and easy to grasp. It's heartfelt and inspired."
Jonny Baker, author, blogger, CMS pioneer mission leadership team leader
"In Cave Refectory Road, Ian Adams has produced a book that can be guaranteed to open up new vistas for anyone searching for an authentic spirituality that will make sense in the context of today’s 24/7 world. By combining threads of wisdom long forgotten or overlooked and showing how they can be interwoven so as to offer fresh insights into our everyday challenges, Ian has crafted a rich tapestry of scriptural and historic patterns for living that will be both empowering and sustaining."
John & Olive Drane, authors, Visiting Fellows of St John's College, University of Durham
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Contact
Ian Adams
Co-founder of mayBe and CMS missional community developer
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It’s a place where I’m welcomed. It’s a place to hold what I have of faith, and use it as a starting point, exploring, building. It’s a thing of hope, of promise."
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Investors in Mission"If you would like to help resource Small Missional Communities please consider giving £50 each month via CMS 'Investors in Mission'. Your partnership in this pioneering mission work would be greatly appreciated!” Ian Adams
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