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Know your church, know your neighbourhood

Know Your Church, Know Your Neighbourhood (KYCKYN) is a facilitated process that was designed to help churches think about themselves in relation to the local communities they seek to work with, and make prayerful and informed decisions about their mission in those communities. We have adapted this process to work for different contexts and timescale.

Theological Reflection

The church is uniquely placed in the parish to offer something distinctive. We are not simply a service provider, but we are a community of faith, prayer and loving service, seeking to respond to God’s call and presence in the world. Theological reflection enables us to pray, discern what the Spirit is doing, and join in, allowing God to challenge, change and shape who we are.

If your church would like to get involved in the local community in loving service, but don’t know where to start, or want to make sure it is grounded in faith, we can help support you in this exploration of God’s love in your parish. We can also help churches reflect on what they are already doing, asking the question: “where is the Spirit leading us today?”

 

Lent Course

Communities Together Durham have written a new course for Lent 2025 to help churches explore their engagement with poverty.  You can sign up to run the course yourself with the course leaders pack, or join our central CTD zoom course on Tuesday evenings.

The course is written for our context in the North East and asks, how do we engage and respond to poverty? 

The five sessions are:

  • Thinking about poverty
  • Looking at poverty
  • Talking about poverty
  • Talking about poverty
  • Responding to poverty
  • Tackling poverty

Each session includes a study on a Bible passage, some information on the topic and time for prayer and reflection.

You can join the course in two ways.

  1. Run the course– sign up and we’ll send you the materials in early February to allow you time to prepare.
  2. Join our zoom course.  Every Tuesday evening in Lent, 7.30pm.  We’ll host a 90 minute zoom, including guest speakers, interviews with people challenging poverty in the North East and break out group discussion.  This is a great option for individuals or churches this Lent.