Urban Expression is an urban mission agency that recruits, equips, deploys and networks self-financing teams pioneering creative and relevant expressions of the Christian church in under-churched areas of the inner city.

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Crucible: Creating Church on the Margins

Crucible is a training programme for Christians with courage and imagination. It assumes:

  • We live in a mission context and need to think like missionaries.
  • We need to think creatively about church in diverse and changing cultures.
  • We serve the God who constantly does new things on the margins.

Crucible runs three intensive training weekends each year to equip Christians to create church on the margins. Find out more...

Urban Expression: London

Urban Expression has concentrated on church planting in East London, deploying 4 teams in Tower Hamlets, 2 in Newham and 1 just south of the Thames in Kidbrooke.

In May 2006 the leader of an 8th team was appointed and we hope to deploy this team by the end of the year.

In this section the team leaders introduce their context and activities. read more...

Urban Expression: Glasgow

Urban Expression Glasgow is a church-planting initiative in Scotland's largest city, with a vision to strategically explore new patterns of church life that can be owned by the the people of Glasgow's poorest communities.

Urban Expression Glasgow is committed to working in partnership with others and is keen to listen and learn from others. read more...