ESTATE NEIGHBOURHOOD PLANTING

As our City Centre Resource Churches have grown, they’re planting out from the heart of the city towards the neighbourhoods on its margins.

Currently, 13% of our network churches are Estate Churches. Of these 21 Estates Churches, 13 are in areas of deprivation.

We anticipate that by the end of the decade, almost half of our network will be in neighbourhoods that fall within the top 10% of the deprivation index*

We believe that God is inviting us to join him on the margins of our society and draw these neighbourhoods into the heart of our network.

If we achieve this as a network, planting into marginalised neighbourhoods will go from being novel to being normal; and these churches will move from our margins to our heart.

13% of our network churches are Estate Churches

Of the 21 Estate Churches (13%)

13 are in areas of deprivation

20% of the UK population live in poverty (estimated)

We anticipate in 10 years

If you’d like to read more about the statistics of the Neighbourhoods involved, use the Parish Finder tool on Church Urban Fund’s website – HERE

50% of our network churches will be in deprived neighbourhoods