Church on the Margins - What does it mean to be a church on the margins?

method up for scrutiny, and hears from the voices What does church on the margins look like? A story from the Ashton group Having led worship one Sunday morning and issued the familiar words at the end of the service: “Go in peace to love and serve the Lord”, one participant remembers emerging on to the steps of the church where they were meeting for a BBQ, to be greeted by eight homeless men and. [...] amongst the most deprived in the country, the Joining together the idea of robust research focus on the city-region of Greater Manchester with the stories heard and received from the as a place of multiple deprivations meant that grassroots participants, the understanding was there were almost certainly churches connected to that the findings would be shared in order to communities that could be i. [...] How will we pastorally support and engage process of narrowing the focus, engaging with the with the people participating in the research ideas of the project and the shifting accountability themselves? in the light of the pandemic continued. [...] Several of the dwellers noted singing, shouting, praying for one another that for them the move to Wythenshawe was a seemed incredibly natural.” move of immense pride – they had come from the Ashton group back-to-back, outdoor plumbing world of Hulme Even in the more serious spaces and and Ardwick and the luxury of the homes, the conversations, the idea of belonging as attached wideness of the str. [...] But we on the experience of the ‘church’ on the margins, What does it mean to be a church on the margins? 19 rather than the minister, though in at least two of the groups the church leaders were in the majority (and loved by those they accompanied).