Messy Church is "a way of being church for families". Its slogan is "Church, but not as you know it".[1]
History
editMessy Church began as a fresh expression of church in 2004 in the parish of Cowplain, near Portsmouth, England,[2] and as of February 2019 there were more than 2,800 Messy Churches registered in England.[3][4]
By 2015, Messy Church had spread from the UK to other European countries and to Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the USA, and South America.[5][6] It is supported and resourced by the Bible Reading Fellowship.[7]
References
edit- ^ "What is Messy Church?". Retrieved 7 February 2021.
- ^ "Messy Church Maturity" in "Playfully Serious: How Messy Churches create new space for faith". Church Army Research Unit. January 2019.
- ^ Field, Clive D. (February 2019). "Counting Religion in Britain". British Religion in Numbers.
- ^ Davis, Madeleine (30 August 2019). "Grant offers a tidy sum for Messy Church study". Church Times. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
- ^ Aspland, Amanda Dawn (2016). Unless you become like a child: Psychological type and Christian becoming at Messy Church (PhD). University of Leeds. p. 9, footnote 7.
- ^ "Messy Church Around the World". Messy Church. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
- ^ "Meet The Bible Reading Fellowship (BRF)". Messy Church. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
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