The Independent Robert Verkaik
The Church of England is to recruit directly from nightclubs as part of an evangelical drive that taps into the growth of New Age spiritualism in Britain. Evangelical missions have already begun working with surfing communities in Cornwall and are now targeting clubbers as far afield as Ibiza.
The Church is worried that not only are congregations in decline but its research has found 60 per cent of adults and children are already “culturally beyond the reach” of traditionally evangelical approaches. Bishop Cray says: “It is a situation requiring not just fresh expressions of Church but fresh expressions of evangelism.”
