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Fresh Expressions isn't just a UK phenomenon, but a growing international movement. |
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| As Fresh Expressions in the UK has blossomed through God’s grace over the past four years, interest has arisen from individuals, churches and denominations overseas. This has prompted us to develop our international work to support an increasing number of enquiries and build an international network of practitioners, researchers and other interested in fresh expressions.
In keeping with our philosophy of not having all the answers (because of the varying cultural contexts and the experiential nature of fresh expressions), we hope to share and learn from our international friends. | |  | |
| Two major international partnerships have been developed so far in Australia and Canada and we hope that more will develop over time. As new links are formed we hope they will be shared with us so we can include them in this page.
There is other international interest in Sweden, Demark, Netherlands, the Church of England Diocese in Europe, the USA, Chile and New Zealand. | |
 | | We are building a process which will allow our international partners to share and contextualise our learning resources such as vision days, mission shaped intro and the mission shaped ministry course for their own use. There are also a number of other resources to help the development of fresh expressions which have been written following the experiences and lessons that have been learnt by practitioners here in the UK. | |
| However it is important that Fresh Expressions is not providing an off-the-shelf solution about new ways of being church in the 21st century but rather sharing what we have learnt so that internationally, God's people can discover what God is doing in their own context. We would like to learn from our international partners by hearing their stories of what has worked and importantly the things that have not. We would also like to see our international contacts form their own relationships with each other. | |
| We have helped in a number of visits from individuals and groups on study tours and sabbatical leave and we are happy to help by providing a speaker or contacts where we can. We are however limited in our resources and are a dispersed team (we do not operate a central or gathered structure) so we may not be able to organise a full programme for visitors.
To get in touch with us about international matters, to discuss partnership or sharing opportunities internationally or to enquire about visiting, please contact us at international@freshexpressions.org.uk. | |  | |
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