The £1.4million project has been made possible thanks to a grant of £887,015 from the Church Commissioners, a national body that exist to support the work and mission of the Church of England. In Canterbury Diocese a pioneering café-style church, launched in Margate, is being used as a blue print for new worshipping communities – there are now nine in total.
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We are grateful to the Church Commissioners and to Allchurhes Trust for their financial participation in helping make this vital project possible.Ĭolin Evans - Strategic Programme Manager (on behalf of the Ignite Project Board) December 2021 We hope that you will continue to join your prayers with the Project Board and give thanks to God with us. We know that there are many challenges ahead the Omicron variant, growing our Ignite communities, continuing to encourage and build up our volunteer teams in preparation for sustainability when the Enablers leave and working out where else the Ignite model can help grow communities across the diocese and beyond. Well done! We have also been greatly encouraged by the many fantastic stories of how our guests have been meeting with God and becoming important members of our growing Ignite communities wherever they are on their faith journeys! We have been blessed that the Ignite model is now working effectively both with families and most recently a youth group, as well as with adults. Our grateful thanks go to our Project Leaders, Enablers, Host Incumbents and the amazing team of volunteers who have worked so hard in the re-launch. Well the results are in and I’m delighted to confirm that overall we have exceeded our relaunch targets and are in fact back to pre-pandemic numbers with just over 100 guests attending each week across the 7 plants! We’ve all been praying for the relaunch in each of the plants and waiting to see whether our guests would return.
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Earlier in the year you will recall that we were successful in applying to the Church Commissioners for a Project Reset Request which funded a project extension to help make up for the lost time. The pandemic had a considerable impact on the Ignite project with most plants unable to meet for significant periods of time and enablers on furlough or partial furlough for extended periods.