Community Mission for Small Groups

Whether you're looking for stories, courses or  booklets, articles & Bible studies, we have a range of materials to get your small group buzzing about community transformation! 

We will be adding more material in the coming months.

New! A comparison of five courses so you can work out which course is right for you?

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Stories - the following personal experiences would be great discussion starters..

• When should we get involved?
  'For me the answer is: when my heart pounds.  This is my sign that I need to do something'
  Jill Clark shares the dilemma of whether to stay silent or to make a stand.
  
  
• Good neighbours mean good communities 
  'As I shared with them something of my struggles, they shared with me something of theirs'
  Ruth Smith describes how a growing friendship on her estate shows that we all can help to reverse the decline in community interaction by consciously being good neighbours.
  
  

• An East End Blog
  Tony Uddin has been in ministry in East London since 1995 and has led Tower Hamlets Community Church (a church linked to Livability for many years) since 2007. Read his weekly reflections on doing the stuff as church and individuals.

Courses

• Which course is right for your group?
• Square Mile
• Getting to know our neighbours
  
• Engaging our Communities
• Why social Action
• Just People
• Amos - God's word to a world of injustice
  

Booklets/Articles

• Making the most of the moment
  
• Comforting the disturbed
• The challenge of integral mission
• The theme of social justice in the Bible
• What does the Bible say about social justice (powerpoint presentation)
  
• What is the gospel?
• What is salvation?
• Why social action?
  
• Integrated faith