“Summer’s Ignite is here. Counties church special: Evangelism in its many forms - churches across the country share their vision with us.

Summmer’s Ignite is here and jam-packed with stories we hope will challenge and inspire you.

Belmont Church, in Exeter, has a congregation of between three to four hundred people on a Sunday morning led by a leadership team. They are very passionate about inter-generational church life that’s not just catering to one type of person. They encourage the generations to mix and do ‘all-together church’.

And Counties church plant, Church in the Community, Wollaston’ opened in 2021. It tried lots of different community engagement opportunities, but only when it became less busy and put the Gospel message first, growth began. We hear from church leader, Jordan Armstrong: Having seen the change at Church in the Community, Jordan believes that too many churches feel there is an expectation on them to be a provider of ‘things’ for the community and that we often doubt the power of the Word: “We don’t think that Gospel is enough of a provision for people. We feel like we need to provide the things people want before we ask them to listen to things we want them to hear. “If we really believe the Gospel of Jesus Christ is the Good News and we share that with people, then we’ll realise that the Good News isn’t a toddler group or the coffee we serve because we’ve got a nice coffee machine - it’s the message that people need today, just as much now as they did when Jesus walked the earth.”

Jordan and Lacy Armstrong