Trey Hall began putting a team together after he started work last summer.
The new team will look to work with churches up and down the UK to promote evangelism and help congregations reach their local communities.
It will focus on supporting the Methodist Church’s network of 4,650 churches.
Speaking to Premier about the need for action, Hall said: “[In] many denominations, many Christian traditions in the UK and western Europe and indeed in the West in general, the church has been less successful in ministry with new generations over the past couple of generations and so we find ourselves in a state of decline.”
The team says it wants to take risks as it tries to develop new places for new people and to help existing churches come alive and grow.
Three new members of staff are due to start work in the next few months.
“The part that makes me the most excited is a sort of adventure, a way of reaching out and looking for conversation partners and doing spiritual journey with people who are not currently affiliated to organised religion and haven’t been,” Hall said.
The new team will be travelling across the nation over the coming months, meeting with church leaders and congregations, and working collaboratively to equip the church for new life.
It consists of Emma Nash, Mission and Community Engagement Officer, Matt Finch, Pioneering and Church Planting Officer and…
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