A wave of new faith-based schools could lead to the building of new churches in the United Kingdom for the first time in more than half a century. Churches are planned for new towns and expanding housing developments, set to burgeon as planning laws are relaxed, according to Britain’s Daily Express newspaper. The newspaper reports that the Bishop of Oxford, the Rt Rev John Pritchard, confirmed that areas around his own diocese will be part of the expansion plans. After the publication of a new report, The Church School of the Future, Church of England schools are set to enjoy a renaissance as hundreds are converted into Academies, the newspaper said. Rt Rev Pritchard, who is chairman of the Church's Board of Education, said: ‘It is around new communities that we see our one area of new expansion in terms of building new schools. Around my diocese in Oxford, for example, there is a vast number of new houses’.
Pray: for the opportunities that arise for building churches in new communities. (1Chr.29:16)