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The Big Issue.

We live in extraordinary times; our lives have changed in ways we have never seen before, as old age institutions are breaking down.

CBN News reports that 70% to 75% of British under the '30s have no faith!
The UK Census, between 2001 and 2011 reports that the number of Christians born in Britain fell by 5.3 million, about 10,000 a week! With a continued rate of decline, the number of UK-born Christians will be zero by 2067.
The Guardian reports that 59% of young people in the UK have never attended religious services.
And data produced by the National Christian Foundation states 1 in 3 practising Christians stopped attending church in any form during the pandemic in the US; with a whopping 50% of them being millennials (age 25 - 40).

Many are now asking how we can healthily embrace the new and thrive in our time of extremes?

The prophet Ezekiel reminds us that God's temple was designed to flow out like a river! In contrast, our western version of church is structured to assemble; not deploy, it's designed to create a culture where people flock together! Its focus is on meetings, as such, it struggles to have any significant impact on society. This must change!

Church As A Movement.

After Pentecost, the early church had a radically different model of Church from what we have today! Built around the teachings of Jesus in Matt 10:11-13, Luke 9:3-6 and Luke 10:5-7, it was so successful that it not only birthed the early church, moreover, the first three centuries belonged to this simple Oikos movement!

OIKOS is your sphere of influence; it's your household, family, co-workers, friends, the neighbour next door!

In Acts 10, Peter goes to Cornelius, a Gentile, a person from a very different culture, and his entire household becomes believers! Later in Acts 19, Paul again follows this Oikos strategy and saw the entire province of Asia (8 to 15 million people) reached in just two years!

The genius of Oikos is that it's contextual, accessible, and able to adapt to a wide range of common interests. It can look like the bikers gathering at the Ace Cafe or an online meet up in the Metaverse. It meets people where they are at; it creates touchpoints where unbelievers can engage with people of faith, offering friendship, engaging lives; it's missional!

We'd like to show you just how effective this is by drawing your attention to a recent survey initiated by Tom Mercer from High Desert Church, taken by 100,000 Christians, from over 50 denominations in 28 countries. The survey asked, "What factor has had the greatest influence on your decision to become a Christian and become part of the church?", see below:

In conclusion, activities that evolve around a church building are only 10 to 19% effective, while Oikos is 75-90%! Our research suggests several reasons for this, one factor is that the state and the organised church are further apart nowadays. As such young people no longer feel the pull to go. According to Premier Christianity:

"Nearly three-quarters of young Britons now identify as having no religion. The number of under 16s in the Church of England has fallen by 20 per cent in five years. Three-quarters of Anglican churches have less than five under 16s in their congregation and just over a third have none. There is less data available for other denominations but Youthscape believe the picture is not much better elsewhere and in some quarters, it’s worse."

In a generation, there will be no one left to take the church forward! If this generation is left unreached, it will be the end of the 'church', so we must change; we must go to them!

It's time to leave behind what isn't working and return to what does! It's to turn our empty or half-full meeting halls into missionary hubs (like Jerusalem in Antioch) and homes into houses of peace (Oiko's church), as Jesus instructed us to do. Then the local people will engage, and our neighbourhoods will be transformed!

Our mission.

Our desire, is to passionately pursue the magnificent vision as set out in the scriptures, and rediscover what God calls us to be as ‘His church’ in our post-Roman culture.

Watch the following video to get an idea of what we are doing:

What does it look like?

“So what does love look like? Love has a face. It looks like something. It looks like someone. When we are motivated by love and are confident that “the God of the impossible” lives inside of us, we can do anything and go anywhere, and nothing will be too difficult – Heidi Baker.

Our story started with engaging our street with litter picking; our neighbours stopped, and people even pulled over in their cars! Soon our neighbours became our friends, and our street, our church.

There are literally millions of ways to show kindness and give love a face! If someone needs help, help! If they tell you they have pain, offer to pray for them! Anyone can do a small act of kindness, but something genuinely transformational happens when we bring it to our neighbourhood!

We want to inspire you to love your neighbours, be the Miracle on your street:

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If it is something that you would like to know more about, please get in touch!

What We Believe

The most distinctive part of who we are is our culture! It’s our DNA— the foundation of who we are and what we do.

When Jesus used the word church (ekklesia) He wasn't talking about a religious organisation. “He was referring to a company of called-out ones, a governing executive with the POWER ...

We believe transforming our neighbourhoods, our workplaces and our cities are not only possible, it's promised. The full dimension of wh...

We believe that environments of freedom, responsibility and empowerment enable people to live holy, healthy, bold and creative lives. We believe that: We are made for Freedom (...

The great commission is, at its heart, an outward movement of people, bringing heaven to earth. When rabbi Jesus said “follow me”, it meant 3 things: To...

Honour is of great importance to God, it comes right out of heaven, lifts us up, and washes our feet. We believe that a culture of honour is the key to cultivating, protecting,...

I Am that, I Am! ” is God’s simple way of saying to humanity, I exist as myself, and I will be. I Am one; I Am in you, I Am everywhere! Encapsulated beautifully in a word...

Worship is what we place our focus on. It occupies our attention, our energy, it creates our atmosphere. When Jesus spoke to the Samaritan woman in John 4:24, it was an invitation to...

God is good all the time

Psalm 84:11, Mark 10:18

Nothing is impossible

Matt 19:26

Jesus has won absolute victory

1 John 5:4

Jesus is the model for humanity

2 Corinthians 5:17

We are in the days of the greatest opportunities

John 4:35

We are deeply and intimately connected

John 17:21

In partner with God in His dream

John 17: 20-25

Everyone is significant

Genesis 1:26

Creating big people, with big dreams

Jeremiah 29:11, Philippians 1:6, Ephesians 2:10

Spread the Word

Your identity and meaning have always been there! You have been designed, created, called for a purpose bigger than yourself. You are loved more than you can know.

Our gear is designed to help you spark a conversation!
- Wear it, talk about it, share your faith - I Am Missional.

church as
a movement

church as
a movement

Introduction

We believe authentic church, in the way Jesus designed it, isn't a building, but a movement of people bringing heaven to earth.

Many are now asking how we can healthily embrace the new and thrive in our time of extremes?

Church As A Movement.

OIKOS is your sphere of influence; it's your household, family, co-workers, friends, the neighbour next door!

Our desire, is to passionately pursue the magnificent vision as set out in the scriptures, and rediscover what God calls us to be as ‘His church’ in our post-Roman culture.

What does it look like?

“So what does love look like? Love has a face. It looks like something. It looks like someone. When we are motivated by love and are confident that “the God of the impossible” lives inside of us, we can do anything and go anywhere, and nothing will be too difficult – Heidi Baker.

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What We Believe

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church as a movement

church as a movement

Introduction

We believe authentic church, in the way Jesus designed it, isn't a building, but a movement of people bringing heaven to earth.

Many are now asking how we can healthily embrace the new and thrive in our time of extremes?

Church As A Movement.

OIKOS is your sphere of influence; it's your household, family, co-workers, friends, the neighbour next door!

Our desire, is to passionately pursue the magnificent vision as set out in the scriptures, and rediscover what God calls us to be as ‘His church’ in our post-Roman culture.

What does it look like?

“So what does love look like? Love has a face. It looks like something. It looks like someone. When we are motivated by love and are confident that “the God of the impossible” lives inside of us, we can do anything and go anywhere, and nothing will be too difficult – Heidi Baker.

Get in touch

What We Believe

Spread the Word

I Am Mission Hoddie / dark

I Am mission t-shirts / Women's

I Am mission vest / dark

I Am mission / mug

church as
a movement

church as
a movement