Reaching Out to the Working Class

‘Unreached’ equips you to face the challenge of growing churches in working-class and deprived areas.

“The book comes out of a working group convened by the ‘Reaching the Unreached network’. We hope it will encourage people to get involved in reaching our estates and cities as well as giving people a sense of how they can go about this work.” - Comment by the Author, Tim Chester.

With the facts, social economic and historical background, Tim Chester looks to a challenging future offering the motivation and the means to reach the unreachable with the gospel message. With an urgent wake up call to Christians and churches, the key gospel themes relevant to working class and deprived areas are explored and plans for evangelism, discipleship and teaching discussed in the context of real world needs and issues.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: TIM CHESTER

Tim is a Bible teacher and church planter. Married to his wife, Helen, the couple have two daughters, Katie and Hannah. Tim is the pastor of The Crowded House in Sheffield and a leader of The Crowded House church planting network. Here, Tim’s congregations or ‘gospel communities’ meet in homes and then come together for a regular ‘gatherings’. The communities emphasise sharing life together rather than programme and structure.

‘‘Ordinary life with gospel intentionality’ is one of our catchphrases,’ says Tim. The Crowded House is often described as part of the ‘emerging church’ movement. It’s true that it has a different approach to traditional churches, Tim’s model is different again in its strong emphasis the centrality and sufficiency of the gospel word. Tim Chester is also the director of Portebrook Seminary which provides an affordable, Bible college-level programme of study that enables students to integrate theological training with involvement in ministry through residential weeks, seminar days and distance learning.