About the UK Christian Handbook
What is the UK Christian Handbook?
For over 25 years the UK Christian Handbook has been the directory of Christian organisations and church headquarters. It has steadily grown over the years and now has nearly 6,000 addresses listed.
What is it used for?
- to make new contacts
- find a conference centre for a church weekend
- put a church member in touch with other Christians in the same profession
- contact a Christian counsellor
- find the local Christian bookshop
- to keep in touch - check the address, phone, fax or email of an organisation - look up where "Joe Bloggs" works
- networking - discover who does the same kind of ministry as your organisation - see who works in a particular locality
- to get information
- find out who is working with drug addicts
- investigate which missionary society works in a country that's in the news
Who uses it?
Senior church leaders
"Very much a must on many people's shelves" -
Rt Rev Michael Turnbull, Bishop of Durham
"I use the Handbook often, it is a brilliant resource and I am so grateful for its existence" - Angela Almond, Connexion
Local church leaders"We find the UK Christian Handbook superbly useful for reference of all sorts" - Rev Michael Green
University and school students looking for material
for projects and essays
Who is listed?
Organisations are normally only listed if they:
- are Trinitarian, that is, they accept the historic formulary of the Godhead as the three eternal persons, God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit, in one unchanging Essence. A fuller statement is available on request
- offer a definitive Christian product, service or function, that is the nature of their output or work reflects their belief and could not be adequately performed without it
- do not operate or trade under their own individual name (musical artistes, evangelists and similar occupations apart), so that their listing represents an identifiable organisation, however small, rather than the work or interest of one or two persons
- work in a wide geographical area, that is they are serving the wider Body of Christ and not only one local church. Individual churches are usually only included if they are also the headquarters for their denomination in the UK.
- Specific ministries within organisations are only included separately upon payment of a fee.
Disclaimer: In spite of the above, the Editors reserve the right to make the final decision as to the inclusion of any organisation, and to the information included about each organisation. The editors have not verified whether each entry fulfils all the criteria.
Religious Trends, the companion volume
Religious Trends is a compilation
of religious statistics,
designed to build
up into a library.
12 Major section include
information on:
- up-to-date statistics on Churches in the UK
- demographics and religious elements in UK society
- clearly presented map, charts, diagrams and tables
- statistics extracted from the 2002/2003 UK Christian Handbook
- major findings from the latest World Christian Encyclopaedia
- a cumulative index for all 3 volumes to create a growing library
- short articles on key subjects
- listing of recent research reports
- Major feature of Volume 3 2002/2003: The results of the English Church Attendance Survey analysed by Local Authority - find out what is happening where you live.
What UKCH Online doesn't contain
UKCH Online contains all the entries
in the 2002/2003 edition of the UK Christian Handbook. Contact details
(address, phone number etc.) have been updated where
the editors have been informed of changes.
However, UKCH Online does not contain some of the additional information
included in the printed version, e.g. Introduction; summary of statistics;
lists of
members of Evangelical Alliance, Global Connections, Churches Together in
Britain and Ireland, Churches Commission on Mission; lists containing additional
information
(such as numbers of beds at conference centres); lists and map detailing
postal regions, post towns and postcode areas; adverts.
Copyright
UKCH Online is made available to help the kingdom of God by making the information it contains more widely available. No part of this website may be downloaded, stored or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, without permission in writing from the copyright owner. The addresses are made available subject to the express condition that the user takes upon himself or herself the obligation not to multiply and/or circulate the addresses, nor to have them multiplied or circulated in any way including in a database, website, mailing list, electronic or printed directory or other like mechanism without the copyright holder's express written consent.