Training Tuesdays: Introduction to Fresh Expressions: Cultivating Healing Communities in Everyday Life

10.08.24 | New Faith Expressions, Administration & Operations, Finance, Congregational Development, Training Tuesdays

    Across the United States, amid a Christian landscape that looks and feels like a desert of decline, God is up to something. Inherited congregations, with long histories, deeply rooted in their traditions, are experimenting with cultivating “fresh expressions” of church. A fresh expression is a form of church for our changing culture, established primarily for the benefit of those who are not yet part of any church. These forms of church are:

    Inclusive 
    Accessible
    Transfiguring
    Connectional 

    When these congregations commit to reaching new people, in new places, and in new ways, revitalization and communal transformation are taking place.

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