Urban Expression is an urban mission agency that recruits, equips, deploys and networks self-financing teams pioneering creative and relevant expressions of the Christian church in under-churched areas of the inner city.

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There are various ways of getting involved with Urban Expression.

Interested in becoming an associate? Please visit the associates page and use the contact form.

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Crucible: Creating Church on the Margins

Crucible is a training programme for Christians with courage and imagination. It assumes:

  • We live in a mission context and need to think like missionaries.
  • We need to think creatively about church in diverse and changing cultures.
  • We serve the God who constantly does new things on the margins.

Crucible runs three intensive training weekends each year to equip Christians to create church on the margins. Find out more...

Urban Expression: London

Urban Expression concentrated on church planting in East London in the first few years, deploying four teams in the borough of Tower Hamlets and two in the neighbouring borough of Newham. Our seventh team was deployed just south of the Thames in Kidbrooke.

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Urban Expression: Manchester

UE in Manchester was established in 2005 with the first team in Newton Heath led by Hannah Batchelor. In 2006 Ian and Rachel Spence began work alongside pastoring Levenshulme Baptist Church. In August 2008 Gary Serra di Migni moved into Victoria Park to initiate a new team there. See the individual team pages for more details. read more...

Urban Expression: Glasgow

Urban Expression Glasgow is a church-planting initiative in Scotland's largest city, with a vision to strategically explore new patterns of church life that can be owned by the the people of Glasgow's poorest communities.

Urban Expression Glasgow is committed to working in partnership with others and is keen to listen and learn from others. read more...