Urban mission in 75 European cities
Three things that concerned the citizens of seventy five of Europe’s major cities were: job creation and reducing unemployment (64 cities), improving the quality and availability of health services (54...
View ArticleHammocks, flat-screens and graffiti – welcome to Church!
New congregations in Denmark are emerging from within the Church of Denmark. The Church of Denmark is Lutheran and receives state support for many of its activities. All the more unusual then that two...
View ArticleRedcliffe students innovating new forms of mission
One of our placement students is currently working alongside ‘Serve the City’ in Leuven and is already managing to encourage innovation in the way that the Belgian teams engages on the streets. She...
View ArticleUrban Church Planting in Europe
‘City to City – Europe‘ describes itself as a growing network of church plants and pastors throughout Europe with an annual meeting. The next meeting of the network takes place in Berlin between the...
View ArticleMapping Migration: Mapping Churches’ Responses: Europe Study
Darrell Jackson and Alessia Passarelli’s report on migration in Europe was prepared for the Churches’ Commission for Migrants in Europe and set out to inform as wide an audience as possible about the...
View ArticleMissional responses to the financial crisis
Homelessness, debt and human trafficking that have become even bigger issues since the onset of the economic crisis. How are churches and mission agencies responding? The figures make depressing...
View Article“Theologizing” the City in Europe
The unprecedented phenomenon of urbanization since the European Industrial Revolution has gone global, and shows no sign of letting up. Today, more than half of humanity is in, or within the domain of,...
View ArticleAspects of Urban Mission in Europe
Did you know Europe’s historic cities are only three per cent of the world’s land mass, and could comfortably fit inside South Africa? Nevertheless, European cities have had a disproportionately...
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