In partnership with Workshop and 614UK (The Salvation Army), we launched the Crucible course to equip people involved in urban mission, church planting and emerging churches. Urban Expression Associates was formed as a network of church planters and others involved in urban mission who share our.Our seventh team was deployed just south of the Thames in Kidbrooke.Since then we have deployed a number of church planting teams in other cities (including Manchester, Glasgow, Birmingham, Stoke and Bristol), as well as London, from which new churches are gradually developing. Urban Expression concentrated on church planting in East London in the first few years, deploying four teams in the borough of Tower Hamlets and two in the neighbouring borough of Newham. Jim works two days a week with responsibility for recruiting and deploying teams. Juliet currently works three days a week for Urban Expression with responsibility for equipping and supporting the teams. She completed her three-year term as co-ordinator in March 2000 but was reappointed on a one day a week basis in October 2002 with responsibility for promotion and recruitment. She and her husband, Jim, led the first church planting team in Shadwell, which began in September 1997. Juliet Kilpin, a graduate of the training course, was appointed as part-time co-ordinator of Urban Expression and worked with Stuart to establish this new mission agency. The director of this course, Stuart Murray Williams, who had planted a church in the inner city in the late 1970s, initiated Urban Expression in order to explore new ways of planting churches in inner city communities. Neither organisation is now directly involved with Urban Expression, which is an independent trust. These organisations were already working together to run a Church Planting and Evangelism training course. Urban Expression was launched in April 1997 through a partnership between Spurgeon’s College and Oasis Trust.
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