My good friend Christy Penner did a case study on urban church planting using the open house for her masters degree and here is the paper for your reading pleasure.

I loved being part of the project and feel this is a very well documented critique and encouragement to what we are attempting to do in Vancouver.

Here is an excerpt:

Planting churches in Canada today involves an awareness that as of the year 2000, ninety percent of Canada is being considered urban, or operating under an urban agenda. Relevant is also the increasingly pluralistic context that Canada finds itself in, with growing levels of diversity in religious affiliations, decreases in church affiliation and overall growth of the population claiming to possess ‘no religion.’ Into this environment, the open house, a house church planting expression is developing in the city of Vancouver, British Columbia. This paper will address the key issue of how the postmodern worldview is informing Canadian urban church planting by using the open house as a case study.

Enjoy (PDF)

our friend Christy Penner did a case study on the open house for her masters degree in the UK