Mission Action Planning
Resources to Inspire & Equip you for Mission
- P Keifert and N Rooms, Forming the Missional Church: Creating Deep Cultural Change in Congregations (Grove Pastoral P139, 2014)
- Pat Keifert, We Are Here Now. (Eagle, Idaho: Allelon Publishing, 2007)
- Nigel Rooms, Missional Church: What Does Good Look Like? (Grove Mission and Evangelism MEv 128, 2019)
Fresh Expressions
The Fresh Expressions website is your best starting point and the latest research on Fresh Expressions can be found on the Church Army website. The following links are particularly helpful:
- Fresh expressions in the Church of England - www.churchofengland.org/about/fresh-expressions-church-england
Greenhouse is the Church of England’s approach to establishing and growing new Christian communities. Greenhouse suits anyone who feels called to establish and grow new, robust Christian communities among people who don’t yet know Jesus. It is all explained here. - Church Army’s excellent research pages - www.churcharmy.org/our-work/research
The following are particularly helpful:- George Lings The Day of Small Things
- George Lings Encountering the Day of Small Things (summary)
- Seeing the Bigger Picture (summary of various reports)
- Playfully Serious – How Messy Churches create new space for faith
- Deepening Discipleship in Messy Church – Collaborative Research with BRF and The Church of England’s Evangelism and Discipleship Team
- Michael Moynagh, Being Church, Doing Life (Lion Hudson, 2014) - a good introduction to the fxC landscape
Discerning the Mission of God in general
- Mark Ireland and Mark Chew, Mission Action Planning – prayer, process and practice (Revised edition, SPCK, 2016)
- Asset Based Community Development
Growing the Church of God
- From Anecdote to Evidence (2014, Church Growth Research Programme)
- From Evidence to Action (2016 Archbishops’ Council)
- Shaping strategies for mission and growth in rural multi-church groups (2017, Archbishops’ Council)
- What makes Churches grow? – Bob Jackson, Church House Publishing
Local Data Resources
- Canterbury Diocesan Parish Data
- Church of England Interactive Parish Map
- Church of England Research and Statistics
- Church Urban Fund Poverty Map
Canterbury Attendance Reports
- Canterbury October 2025 Attendance Report (Jackson and Botting)
- Canterbury October 2024 Attendance Report, Bob Jackson et al (with forward by Steve Coneys)
- Canterbury October 2023 Attendance Report, Bob Jackson et al
- Larger Churches Day Handout (2 December 2023)
- Canterbury October 2022 Attendance Report, Bob Jackson et al
- Canterbury Easter 2022 Attendance Report, Bob Jackson
Focal Ministries