Durham Estate Churches Network was set up to create a learning and support network for people ministering in estate parishes across the Diocese. ‘Estate parishes’ in this Diocese is a stretchable term, embracing and including our many so-called ‘post-industrial’ communities and others characterised by the social and economic challenges they face.
This initiative was in part a response to the emergence of the national Estates Evangelism Task Group (EETG) set up as part of the Church of England’s Renewal and Reform agenda. The Task Group’s aim is to “seek to renew the Church on social housing estates using both proclamation and service” and underpinning their approach is “the presumption that the renewal of the Church will come from the margins and from the nation’s poorest and most forgotten people.”
Find out more:
- Estates Evangelism Task Group
- Estates Evangelism Task Group (EETG) at National Synod
- Church of England 'Renewal and Reform'
- Durham Estate Churches Network Facebook page
- National Estate Churches Network.