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Messy Church is "a way of being church for families". Its slogan is "Church, but not as you know it".[1]

History

Messy Church began as a fresh expression of church in 2004 in the parish of Cowplain, near Portsmouth, England,[2] and as of February 2019 there were more than 2,800 Messy Churches registered in England.[3][4]

By 2015, Messy Church had spread from the UK to other European countries and to Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the USA, and South America.[5][6] It is supported and resourced by the Bible Reading Fellowship.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "What is Messy Church?". Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  2. ↑ "Messy Church Maturity" in "Playfully Serious: How Messy Churches create new space for faith". Church Army Research Unit. January 2019.
  3. ↑ Field, Clive D. (February 2019). "Counting Religion in Britain". British Religion in Numbers.
  4. ↑ Davis, Madeleine (30 August 2019). "Grant offers a tidy sum for Messy Church study". Church Times. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  5. ↑ Aspland, Amanda Dawn (2016). Unless you become like a child: Psychological type and Christian becoming at Messy Church (PhD). University of Leeds. p. 9, footnote 7.
  6. ↑ "Messy Church Around the World". Messy Church. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  7. ↑ "Meet The Bible Reading Fellowship (BRF)". Messy Church. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
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