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Date(s) - 23/09/2026
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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The following is from the Ecumenical officer of Churches Together in Bedfordshire – all are invited.
I have long promised an evening to come and learn and explore what Community Organising is, and how it can empower and bolster the communities that you are a part of, churches, and churches together groups a like. It’s the mechanism that I have been implementing with the CT groups that I have been walking along side.
I invite you to join myself and my former colleague Revd Dr Simon Woodman to learn from a practitioner with many years experience in pastorate ministry and organising. I encourage you to also invite your ordained leadership as these tools can be used to help strengthen and galvanise their church communities.
So please join us for;
Organising and the Church: Building a Relational Culture
An online talk and discussion with the Revd Dr Simon Woodman
Topic: Community Organising and Church Culture
Time: Sep 23, 2026 07:00 PM London
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Time: Sep 23, 2026 07:00 PM London
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Passcode: 629959
Community organising has a language of its own — power, campaigns, strategy, action — and it can sound alien in church. But translate it, and it becomes familiar: power is the capacity to act together, strategy is discernment, action is faith in motion.
Drawing on Bloomsbury’s experience, Simon explores how deep listening, one-to-one conversations, shared action and honest reflection can reshape a congregation’s culture – moving us from programme-driven to relationship-driven. He’ll be honest about the discomfort, too, and why tension is often the birthplace of transformation. The talk will be followed by open discussion. Newcomers and seasoned organisers equally welcome.
The Revd Dr Simon Woodman has been Minister of Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, in London’s West End, for fourteen years. A New Testament scholar, he has long experience of community organising, serves on the leadership teams of both London Citizens and Westminster Citizens, and has led Bloomsbury through the Centre for Theology and Community’s Organising for Growth programme.
please RSVP to Dawn
I look forward to seeing you there
Dawn
