Messy Church
Messy Church is an informal Christian activity for families, often held on a day other than Sunday and often in a place other than a church. Its slogan is "Church, but not as you know it".[1]
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]
By 2015 Messy Church had spread from the UK to other European countries and to Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the USA.[4]
References
- ^ "Messy Church".
- ^ "Messy Church Maturity" in "Playfully Serious: How Messy Churches create new space for faith". Church Army Research Unit. January 2019.
- ^ Field, Clive D. (February 2019). "Counting Religion in Britain". British Religion in Numbers.
- ^ 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.