Dear Editor,
Paul Hinton (en December) shares his disquiet over church plants that produce churches full of students and young professionals, but neglect the huge estates which have no witness at all. This is sad, as church logos often indicate a wish to reach out to all.
There is a simple explanation: the residents of the estates are a people-group with a different culture. Just as an intending missionary from England to, say, India, has to learn how to minister to Hindu culture, a church planter to an estate, who has a Christian background, must learn how to evangelise people who may speak his own language but still have a very different, secular, culture. These ‘studenty/professional’ church plants are not cross-cultural.
