Outreach Resources to support your Church for Mission

• Christian Publishing and Outreach (CPO) provide great publicity and outreach resources for churches

• Christian Vision for Men (CVM) outreach for Men

• Recommended resources from the EA

• Hope provide resources for local church mission

• Messy Church - a great way to reach families for the gospel

• Share Jesus International equips the church for mission with a host of resources

• Fresh Expressions of Church are being planted and are being developed in Rural Areas

Resources for churches working in schools

• Primary school resources from Christian Aid

• Prayer space in schools an initiative from 24/7 prayer

• Scripture Union resources for churches connecting with schools

• Open the Book - Bible story telling in Primary Schools

Useful resources for rural and village churches including grants and conservation

• Developing Community Projects

• Setting up a Friends Group

• Welcoming Visitors

• A Financial Planning & Budgeting Guide for Churches from Stewardship

• How to consult with your local community about your local church

• Advice and Guidance for Church Buildings from the Church of England

• Ecclesiastical Law and the Church of England

• Parish Resources

• Church Resources (Leadership, Administration, Communication, Planning & Structures) from John Truscott

• Charitable Grants for Churches

• All Churches Trust provides heritage grants and funding to engage with local communities

• Garfield Weston provide grants for practical projects in helping support local communities

• Church Care grants for urgent repairs

• Caring for God's Acre a conservation charity for burial grounds across the UK

• A Rocha caring for God's Earth, helping churches to protect and restore nature

Christian News websites

• Church Times

• Baptist Times

• Premier Christian News

• Christian Today

• The Christian Institute

Christian Magazines

• Christianity Magazine

• Idea Magazine from the Evangelical Alliance

Useful courses to grow and support your church

Introductions to Christianity

• The Alpha Course with it's global success, this course seeks to introduce the basics of the Christian faith through a series of talks and discussions

• Christianity Explored helps people meet Jesus in the pages of Scripture so that they love, live and tell the good news

Introductions to the Bible and Prayer

• Christian Foundations encouraging discipleship in Small Groups, this is a Bible Course for Christian Growth with 16 Supported Topics covered

• The Bible Course an 8 week course from the Bible Society which will increase your confidence, equip you to read the Bible better and help you to see its relevance to daily life

• The Prayer Course a free 8 week course from best selling author Pete Greig the author of The 24/7 Prayer Manual

• The Prayer Course II - unanswered prayer  a 5 week course from Pete Greig, designed to explore some of the difficult  aspects of prayer

• The Bible Project a great way to look at individual books of the Bible and an overview of the Bible. The purpose of the Bible Project is to help people experience the Bible as a unified story that leads to Jesus.

• The Romans Course from the Bible Society will take you on a deeper journey, helping you discover your place in God’s story

Courses to build relationships and families

• Care for the Family  provide popular community courses look to help build strong family relationships and support families in time of difficulty

• The Marriage Course is a series of seven sessions, designed to help couples invest in their relationship and build a strong marriage

• The Pre-Marriage Course is a series of five sessions to help engaged couples or those exploring the possibility of marriage, build strong foundations for their future together.

• Parenting for Faith from the Bible Reading Fellowship

Courses to grow your own individual and Church Mission and Outreach

• Fruitfulness on the Frontline how God works in and through Christians right where they are. From the London Institute of Contemporary Christianity (LICC)

• Talking Jesus is a course to train Christians to share their faith through 6 video sessions and a course-book

• Prompt 52 a great set of free resources (teaching video, sermon outline, PowerPoint and group discussion resources) from SJI helping establish where God might be prompting you to join in mission

• A practical handbook on evangelism from OutreachUK (free to view online)

Guidance on some compliance issues

• Fire Safety guidance

• Church Security

• Safety at Events

• Food Hygiene for charity events

• Some charity basics for churches

• Parish Resources provides over 400 pages to support churches in their management and stewardship

Tourism

There are many rural villages that thrive on Tourism, though there are many that don't, but why not try to build awareness of your church and village using the following tourism digital toolkit from Visit England, or other resources available here:

• Tourism Digital Toolkit

• National Churches Trust