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People of Faith
A new program designed to encourage evangelism in the church is being developed in the diocese. The Rev. Ron Meacock, incumbent of the Parish of Hastings, believes the Households of Faith program may help to build Christian community and strengthen churches. Mr. Meacock and a group of lay people and clergy from across the diocese began working on Households of Faith two years ago. Households of Faith are intended to be an extension of the local church that trains and nourishes Christian people and is mandated to divide and double its membership every two years.
Early Church Model
"What we're doing is looking at the very early church model when groups of people met in homes," says Mr. Meacock. "Friends would have come along. It would have been a large extended family group with many children, parents, grandparents, widowed parents and people who wandered in." The idea is to use the home as a center for evangelism, which he describes as "sharing the faith." It builds not on someone on the street corner preaching or someone being argued into the Faith, but someone meeting other Christian people and being attracted to the Faith.
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