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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"


Ways into small missional community

Latest from Ian Adams's series on kindling

ways into small missional community [9] earthy good news?

Hi everyone. It’s great to see lots of questions, learning, wisdom and ideas being shared on the network. Thanks everyone for your contributions. Please keep them coming!

This latest post in the ‘ways into small missional commun...

ways into small missional community [13] accessible and committed - the traveling band

Here’s an interesting task that comes in creating and sustaining a new Christ-following community: how can we find ways to make the life of the community both accessible to anyone who might just want to explore or visit, and at the same time...

ways into small missional community [12] Eucharist

Stillness for reflection, bread and wine shared, sacred words spoken. Jesus the Christ left us a practise that has continually shaped the huge variety of communities that have sprung up seeking to follow him and his way - what we might know ...
Click through for the whole series...


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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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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