Welcome to this webpage which supports a project to identify best practices in the relationship between Pioneers and Inherited church leaders to enable Fresh Expressions of Church to flourish, within a mixed Ecology, in the Church of England.
The researcher is Rev John Marsh, Mission Development Adviser for the Diocese of Sheffield and the research institution is Asbury Theological Seminary.
There are two links to two separate online questionnaires below, please choose the one most relevant to your situation.
Each questionnaire will take a few minutes to fill in and all necessary consents and permissions are contained within each.
This page is simply to get you to the correct starting place.
Thanks in advance for your time, and I will endeavour to publicise the findings as widely as possible.
Both questionnaires are for those involved in some way with pioneering or Fresh Expressions, New Worshipping Communities or New Congregations in the Church of England.
If you are in parish or a diocesan senior staff or diocesan officer and you oversee, commission, fund, line manage, encourage or otherwise engage with Pioneers, FxC, NWC or NC but are not leading directly the community click here
https://forms.gle/EXKsJ3TPvU68BgLr8
(e.g. you might be an incumbent overseeing but not running a Messy church, or someone in the diocese who has responsibility for encouraging FxC etc.)
If you are a Pioneer or leading an FxC, NWC or NC and receive oversight, commissioning, funding, line management, encouragement or otherwise rely on parish or diocesan senior staff or diocesan officers, click here
https://forms.gle/FoN6HcfdzCPhhKpW6
(e.g. you might be running a Café Church with the support of the vicar or you might be a Pioneer in the diocese with funding from a central source etc.)