USEFUL LINKS
Recommended Resources
AMPLIFY - A Young Evangelist’s training academy, Amplify is an evangelism mentoring scheme for 11-17-year-olds, seeking to encourage, equip and empower young people to share their faith with their friends, family and community. The 6-month long, interactive program is made up of two in-person gatherings, monthly online group mentoring sessions and evangelism masterclasses with those sharing their faith in the worlds of music, sport, performing arts, social media, social action and many more.
Christian Foundations - Encouraging discipleship in Small Groups, this is a Bible Course for Christian Growth with 16 Supported Topics covered.
Christianity.org.uk - For the easiest evangelism you’ll ever do, point non-Christians to Christianity.org.uk. They will discover beautifully presented, comprehensive and objective information about the Christian faith. They’ll also be able to have a confidential email conversation with a Christian – not an automated bot, but a real person who listens as well as talks, gives balanced information and gently encourages enquirers to find out more. Simply add Christianity.org.uk to your website and any materials and banners that are seen by people who don’t normally go to church. We will do the rest. You don’t need to ask us, and there is no charge.
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
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
Some practical ways to share your faith - some tips from the London City Mission
Fresh Expressions of Church are being planted and are being developed in Rural Areas
Wild Church Toolkit - easily set up your own wild church using these resources
Resources for churches working in schools
Prayer space in schools an initiative from 24/7 prayer
Scripture Union resources for churches connecting with schools
Barnabas in Schools resources for assembly / collective worship, RE, festivals, drama and crafts
Open the Book - Bible story telling in Primary Schools
Useful resources for rural and village churches including grants and conservation
A Financial Planning & Budgeting Guide for Churches from Stewardship
Church Resources (Leadership, Administration, Communication, Planning & Structures) from John Truscott
Acre Action Grants of between £2,000 and £5,000 to help make improvements to rural community buildings in England
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
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
The Y-course an eight week evangelism course helps people face life’s biggest questions and introduces them to Jesus
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
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: