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About Unlock<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

For 50 years now, the non-denominational charity, Unlock<\/a>, has worked in urban communities in the UK to resource small groups of local oral learners to connect their own stories and experiences with the stories in the Bible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The work is inclusive and relational, it can be slow but its impacts are profound, it is small scale but far reaching. It starts with people\u2019s own stories and values what each person has to bring to the learning process, including, and in fact especially, those who have had a negative experience of formal education and are not \u2018bookish\u2019. Unlock uses creative activities to connect people\u2019s lived experience with the stories in the Bible and we see transformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unlock usually works with people outside of church who may be interested in finding out a bit more about faith but perhaps are not attracted to the formal methods of learning often associated with church. Their work is based on a reflective learning cycle and is a tried and tested way of introducing people to the Bible in a nonthreatening way. Many churches have activities that draw in members of their surrounding community but then struggle with how to move on from those relationships into exploring faith, especially in urban environments where anything formal might be treated with suspicion<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christians can, and do, learn about their faith simply by:<\/p>\n\n\n\n