In Depth:  Michael Coveney

If you ask the average person in the street what they think of church, most would say it is boring and irrelevant, a view backed up by dwindling attendances and church closures.

So what’s the answer? Maybe it’s time for countries with thriving congregations to send missionaries to Britain to reverse the decline? That’s exactly what the BBC’s mini documentary series entitled Reverse Missionaries was all about as it followed the activities of three missionaries. They came from Jamaica, Malawi and India to visit Britain and grow local churches that have been in decline and which they see as ‘dying spiritually’.