Dual Transformation webinar

Matt works collaboratively to develop and implement a Church-wide strategy for ‘new places for new people’, developing leaders and pathways that promote experimentation, multiplication and growth. His previous appointment was as a Methodist minister in the St Neots and Huntingdon Circuit, where he established a café church, a contemplative community and new patterns of children and families ministry.

Matt Finch, Pioneering and Church Planting Officer

Many of us look to the flourishing of the Methodist Church. We need to encourage inherited churches and create safe spaces for pioneers.

New Places for New People

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What is 'Dual Transformation'? Our appreciation of how ‘new’ and ‘inherited’ models of church can co-exist continues to evolve. From “Mixed Economy” we’ve shifted to “Mixed Ecology” and Michael Beck, Fresh Expressions Leader in the United States, talks of “Blended Ecology”. However, for a ‘blended ecology’ to flourish, we need to recognise that the ‘new’ and ‘inherited’ are very different pieces of enterprise. One is about working with ‘what is’ to support greater health and flourishing. The other is creating ‘what is not yet’ to become healthy and flourishing.Some challenging research, Dual Transformation, suggests we can’t do both things well under the same rules: inherited patterns really struggle with new creation. Working with ‘what is’ and ‘what is not yet’ require two entirely different leadership models. For the creation of the new to really flourish it may need to have more distinctive space from inherited structures. But this isn’t about total separation, or competition. It’s about appropriate space. The final part of the Dual Transformation research is clear that the two streams need to cross-fertilise. As Michael Beck puts it: ’The blended ecology is not healthy if both inherited and emerging forms do not have some influence on the other. As both grow and influence each other, the whole church is strengthened.’Who is this for?Many of us, whether involved with New Places for New People or existing church, are looking with hopeful imagination to the future flourishing of the Methodist Church. We recognise that this means we need BOTH to encourage inherited churches to flourish all the more, AND also to create space and safe frameworks for pioneers to take risks and explore all kinds of New Places for New People. Dual Transformation helps us see that these are very different enterprises, each needing their own particular ecosystems. We invite you to a conversation, via this webinar, exploring these issues.Who is running the webinar?Hosted by Eunice Attwood (Church at the Margins Officer) and Matt Finch (Pioneering and Church Planting Officer), this will be a conversation between Leslie Newton, Chair, Yorkshire North and East district and Stephen Lindridge, Chair, Newcastle upon Tyne district. Leslie is involved in the Kairos NPNP project Yorkshire North East - Kairos Movement and Stephen’s district has The Mother House Newcastle - The Mother House.

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