Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Goodbye Acton Green church | |
Posted by: | Peter Evans | |
Date/Time: | 16/01/16 20:45:00 |
In answer to earlier questions, the Alpha movement is a comparatively recent evangelical Anglican movement based at Holy Trinity Brompton. Whatever views people have about it - and they range from ‘an inspirational experience’ to ‘blatant brainwashing’ - it’s been very successful at building up a following through its ‘Alpha Courses’. It's also been effective at increasing church attendances by mobilising groups of supporters to ‘plant’ (their expression) themselves in poorly supported churches and to eventually take them over. Equally they target closed or redundant churches, such as St Albans, and negotiate to reopen them under the Alpha brand. In this case, Christ Church on Turnham Green, already an Alpha church, applied to the Church Commissioners to have a section of Acton Green transferred into their parish so they could more conveniently run St Albans and fund improvements to it. They also kick started the congregation with a ‘plant’ group from Turnham Green and developed a range of other activities in the building. For those who want to know more about the Alpha movement, there’s plenty on the internet from all points of view. The proposed parish boundary changes were mentioned on ChiswickW4 at: http://www.chiswickw4.com/default.asp?section=info&page=stalbansboundarychange.htm Here's a detailed account of the application to the Church Commissioners: https://www.churchofengland.org/media/2215837/acton%20green%20pt%201.pdf There was presumably an appeal but in December 2015 the privy council declined to allow it: http://privycouncil.info/privy-council-declines-appeal-in-london-parish-boundary-dispute/ ..which probably explains why the work can now start on the St Albans building. I was just making the point that saving St Albans for community use was a laudable objective which many had campaigned for, but I take exception to the new vicar presuming that all those campaigners were equally supportive of a particular branch of a particular religion taking over the building. |
Topic | Date Posted | Posted By |
Goodbye Acton Green church | 16/01/16 18:25:00 | Peter Evans |
Re:Goodbye Acton Green church | 16/01/16 18:39:00 | Loraine Pemberton |
Re:Re:Goodbye Acton Green church | 16/01/16 19:06:00 | Ann Williams |
Re:Re:Re:Goodbye Acton Green church | 16/01/16 19:11:00 | Angela Knight |
Re:Goodbye Acton Green church | 16/01/16 19:24:00 | Arnie Devi |
Re:Re:Goodbye Acton Green church | 16/01/16 20:10:00 | Julian Pavey |
Re:Re:Re:Goodbye Acton Green church | 16/01/16 20:45:00 | Peter Evans |
Re:Re:Re:Re:Goodbye Acton Green church | 16/01/16 21:04:00 | Georgina Flint |
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Goodbye Acton Green church | 16/01/16 22:00:00 | Helene Frost |
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Goodbye Acton Green church | 16/01/16 22:41:00 | Angela Knight |
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Goodbye Acton Green church | 16/01/16 22:42:00 | Angela Knight |
Alpha Course. Yummy | 17/01/16 00:33:00 | Ken Munn |
Re:Alpha Course. Yummy | 17/01/16 13:27:00 | Jeni Evans |
Re:Re:Alpha Course. Yummy | 17/01/16 19:10:00 | Claire Moran |
Re:Re:Re:Alpha Course. Yummy | 17/01/16 19:16:00 | Will Watson |
Re:Re:Re:Re:Alpha Course. Yummy | 17/01/16 19:32:00 | Julian Pavey |
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Alpha Course. Yummy | 17/01/16 19:51:00 | Julian Pavey |
Changes at Acton Green Church | 18/01/16 10:56:00 | Peter Evans |
Re:Changes at Acton Green Church | 18/01/16 11:22:00 | Anne England |
Re:Re:Changes at Acton Green Church | 18/01/16 11:54:00 | Stuart Kerr |
Re:Changes at Acton Green Church | 18/01/16 14:25:00 | Robert Fish |