Out Of The Margins

Join us with Michael Shaw to hear about loving your community, seeking growth and what it really means to be a disciple.

This week, Sara and Brendan talk to the director of Sanctuary Mental Health Ministries, Corin Pilling. Our discussion ranges from mental health support available in churches to warm banks and food banks to the challenges of churches being at the front line of these provisions.

This week Brendan and Sara chat to Michael Houston about his work in Bethnal Green and some of his experiences of ministry there.

This week we talk to Nicky Pybus about her work in Bournville as a pioneer and how she set up a Forest Church.

This week Brendan and Sara chat to Simon Rea who lives and works in Stonegrove, in Edgware. We talk about the opening of a community space within the building used for the church, and what possibilities and opportunities that has created for the community. Then we talk about Alms-houses and how they could be a project for the future rather than a thing of the past.

We spoke with Jonathan about life on Thamesmead Estate and how Covid has changed the landscape of church and work.

Rev Helen Shannon shares with us some wisdom around what we are sees and sensing in this post pandemic time in are estates and low income communities. What is dying? How has the local estate church responded to what is dying and what are they seeing is beginning to flourish. For more check it out...