Sunday Focus-Skateboarding and BMXing for the Lord

With many churches facing a decline in attendance at Sunday Services, The Church of England is taking some bold initiatives to involve the lapsed, as well as the un-churched.

A new program is being launched, with the reported backing of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, which will send "pioneer ministers" (ordained clergy) to the people who are not attending traditional services.

Venues, have included such disparate places as skateboarding parks, and a BMX mountain biking club. A full report on this bold and interesting initiative, as reported by Christopher Morgan for Fresh Expressions, may be found at the following link:

http://www.freshexpressions.org.uk/standard.asp?id=1084

This certainly will give some of us a new way of thinking about missionary work. Your editor highly recommends this story!