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Breakfast Church
Their “Breakfast Church” has been at 8am so that Richard and Wendy could rush off to parish morning prayer at 10.15am. However, in October they were commissioned to concentrate on this fresh expression of church and released from duties at the parish church. Their vision is for a cell on every street! This is emerging church in every sense. Firstly, it is the seeds of the gospel in and through Richard and Wendy, that are bearing fruit in their context and church is taking shape in the everyday lives of residents. It is not come to us in our existing church but go and allow church to emerge. Second, it's one of a whole diversity of fresh expressions of church that is emerging in our contemporary culture. It is very light weight and doesn't have the assumptions of professional clergy leaders or of expensive buildings. Even the model of small group is so simple it doesn't require lots of experience or bible knowledge, to lead. So multiplication is built in from the start. Richard and Wendy are now considering how they might gather the cells together periodically in a cluster, or mid-sized group. For further information, they can be contacted at RichJPrice@aol.com. |
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Richard and Wendy Price have for years been key members of St Pauls, Boughton
in Chester. He has been a lay reader, regularly leading and preaching at services, and
she has led Parents and Toddlers. They live on a large estate of some 5000
population in the suburbs of the city. A couple of years ago they got a vision
for a new sort of mission on this estate. They built relationships with
neighbours at the school gate, over the fence, out and about. A video of
Christian testimonies lent to neighbours soon had others asking to see it.
All these contacts have led to a couple of regular meetings in the home where
they ask just two questions of a bible passage: What truth do you see? And what
are you going to do about it? Richard and Wendy also have a Sunday morning
breakfast in their homes with neighbour families coming in for cereal, toast,
coffee, prayer and cut and paste common worship! In the past two years there
have been 18 neighbours converted, three of whom were baptised by the vicar in
an inflatable pool in their back garden in September 2005.