{"id":4780,"date":"2022-12-01T10:28:22","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T10:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/estatechurches.org\/?post_type=stories&p=4780"},"modified":"2022-12-01T10:31:51","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T10:31:51","slug":"new-parks-new-friends","status":"publish","type":"stories","link":"https:\/\/estatechurches.org\/stories\/new-parks-new-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"New Parks, New Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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When I retired in 2012 and joined a small and struggling Methodist church on New Parks Estate, it was really a ‘Sunday only’ church apart from Brownies, Rainbows and a drama group. It seemed like an alien space ship on the estate with hardly any interaction with the community.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

A group of us started to pray and ask God to show us where we could fit in to the community life. We started going to anything and everything that was taking place and I joined the community panel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first good thing was meeting an arts group which was working on the estate and we were able to liaise with them to paint a mural on the boarded-up windows of our very ugly church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n