An assessment of the member-care offered by Urban Expression Glasgow

This essay seeks to evaluate the member-care offered by Urban Expression Glasgow (UEG)[1] in comparison to two other urban mission agencies: Urban Neighbours Of Hope (UNOH)[2] - based in Springvale, Australia, and EDEN[3] - part of the Message Trust based in Manchester, England. Although their methodologies differ (UNOH considers itself a mission order, with its rigorous membership requirements, while EDEN is focussed specifically on reaching youth), all three organisations are committed to deploying bi-vocational cross-cultural teams into deprived western inner-city contexts, and to seeing indigenous leaders emerge to lead local expressions of church life. All three have arisen since the mid-nineties and draw team members from a broad spectrum of denominational backgrounds.