Simple, fresh, organic. These are the words that spring to mind when one hears the story
Three knock-out reasons why we must rethink the Sunday morning church service to include much more
Simply desiring an engaged and intentional community isn’t enough; there needs to be a tangible movement
This unedited blog article by Craig Greenfield appeared on craiggreenfield.com on 27 February 2021 and was
Mark Sayers is senior pastor of Red Church in Melbourne, Australia. His latest book is Disappearing Church.
What Whitiora Bible Church has to say. This is a story of how God’s redemption can
We believe this is best done by encouraging communal and relational ways of doing church and mission.
We help New Zealand churches by:
The Love Your Neighbour Trust (LYN) is an interdenominational, registered charitable trust.`
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After the successful rollout of the ‘JESUS Gift to the Nation’ project throughout New Zealand, Howard & Lynette Webb wanted to continue seeing every neighbourhood in New Zealand loved by their local church. Love Your Neighbour was formed in 2005 to gather and tell stories of ordinary churches doing extraordinary things in their community, and to provide forums for community ministry leaders to network and share their wisdom.
In 2009 Bruce Edmonds joined the team. The Community Link training course was developed and for a season we invested deeply in training and equipping community ministry leaders.
In 2015 the team made the strategic decision to focus on working with whole church congregations. We came to see that providing churches with a pathway for cultural change was the best way to make churches more missionally effective.
Two significant achievements followed:
In 2020 we published ‘Redemptive Family’, which provides the rationale and biblical framework for the Redemptive Family Church Series.
Our tools and strategy may have changed over time, but our heart and mission has stayed the same. We want to see healthy and vibrant churches throughout New Zealand who understand and embrace their mission and love their local community.
