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Kingdom Buildings

Your church and churchyard as assets for mission

Kingdom Buildings

Your church and churchyard as assets for mission

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Paperback / softback

£20.00

Publisher: Canterbury Press Norwich
ISBN: 9781786226235
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 30/05/2025
Width: 15.6 cm
Height: 23.4 cm
Kingdom Buildings explores the vital contribution that the church building and grounds make to the Church’s mission and growth. Often experienced as a burden, this guide will enable them to be seen as gifts for the flourishing of the community. Blending theology, ecclesiology and practicality, it will fire the imagination, and its step-by-step guidance will help solve even seemingly intractable challenges. It advocates the importance of doing the right thing for the long term, while showing how minor changes can be achieved cheaply, generate momentum, and have a big effect. It also considers accessibility, carbon reduction and ecological credentials which present particular challenges in heritage buildings and grounds. Chapters include: 1: The theory behind the practice 2: Preliminaries: planning, permission, paying for it, perseverance 3: Getting your church open Welcome, unstaffed opening 4: Projects that make a difference: toilets, kitchenettes, community space, cafes, children’s corners 5: Carbon reduction Heating, lighting, solar panels, EV charging 6: Churchyards: from urban jungle to sacred ground 7: Making the most of your church hall: business plans, marketing, hire rates, legalities Conclusion: Securing lasting change

Kenneth Padley

Kenneth Padley has 20 years’ experience of involvement in large and small projects at local and diocesan levels which have sought to make churches, grounds and ancillary buildings fit for contemporary use. He is Canon Treasurer at Salisbury Cathedral with oversight of the architecture and artefacts of one of England’s most iconic buildings.