Beyond the Walls is a resource platform and network dedicated to pioneer ministry,
fresh expressions of church, and innovative community planting.
The platform serves as a digital hub for practitioners, theological thinkers,
​and local leaders operating outside traditional parish structures.

BEYOND THE WALLS

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Beyond the Walls is a resource platform and network dedicated to pioneer ministry, fresh expressions of church, and innovative community planting. The platform serves as a digital hub for practitioners, theological thinkers, and local leaders operating outside traditional parish structures.

UPCOMING WEBINARS

PAST WEBINARS

Season 1: Episodes 1-7
Season 2: Episodes 8-11

Webinar 10: Richard Elliot

Beyond the Walls Webinar 10: The Pickwell Foundation

Webinar 13: Kerry Dixon

Webinar 14: Revd Dr Al Barrett

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Webinar 12: Mission, THeology, and Ministry on the margins (with Revd jon swales MBE)

Webinar 12: Mission, Theology and Ministry on the Margins
with Revd Jon Swales MBE

Tuesday 13th January 2026 at 1pm
Rev’d Jon Swales MBE is an Anglican priest, poet, and prophetic theologian. He is the founder and leader of Lighthouse West Yorkshire, a Christian community for those battered and bruised by the storms of life, established in 2014. Jon has taught theology and ministry at the Leeds School of Theology, St Hild College, the Niagara School of Missional Leadership, and the Westminster Theological Centre. He is the main tutor for the Mission, Theology and Ministry for the Margins course, which has inspired, trained, and equipped pioneers to reach out with the love of Christ into a wounded world.
WEBINAR 13: Revd Canon Kerry Dixon

Webinar 13: 
with Revd Canon Kerry Dixon CA

Tuesday 10th February 2026 at 1pm
Rev Canon Kerry Dixon is a Church Army Evangelist and Rector of St Luke’s, a Church Army Centre of Mission. Under his leadership, St Luke’s has grown from a small congregation of five elderly members to a vibrant community of over 50, running café church, a clothing bank, and a drop-in café, as well as a youth group of 80 unchurched young people and a Kidz Club of 40 junior-aged children.
Kerry has nearly 50 years of evangelism experience and has co-led two churches that experienced significant growth. He has extensive expertise in pastoral care and mission, particularly in supporting individuals in recovery from addiction, having run residential retreats for the Pirate Monks & Nuns community for over eight years.
Previously, he served as CEO of Signpost International, leading development and humanitarian projects across Uganda, Rwanda, Brazil, the Philippines, India, and Russia. His home church is St Mary’s, Nether Stowey, near Bridgwater, Somerset, which shaped his lifelong commitment to faith-based community service.
Known for his compassionate, inclusive, and ecumenical approach, Kerry empowers individuals and communities to rebuild lives marked by hope, resilience, and purpose.
WEBINAR 14: Revd Dr al barrett: Thinking missionally within a neighbourhood ecology

Webinar 14: ’Thinking missionally within a neighbourhood ecology’
with Revd Dr Al Barrett

Tuesday 10th March at 1pm
Revd Dr Al Barrett has been Rector of Hodge Hill Church (on the eastern edge of Birmingham) since 2010, and has been deeply involved with neighbours in a long-term, intergenerational journey of grassroots community-building on his multicultural outer urban estate. This collective grassroots work has in turn shaped his thinking and writing, particularly in the entangled strands of class, race, gender and ecology. Al will be inviting us to pay attention to the work of nurturing community and kinship in a world that feels like it is falling apart, and to see our neighbourhoods as complex ecosystems within which the life-giving Spirit is at work.
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Webinar 15: Jonny Baker: fringe dweller

Webinar 15: ’Fringe Dweller'
with Jonny Baker

Tuesday 14th April 2026 at 1pm
Focus: How might dwelling on Jesus’ encounters with those at the fringes open up imagination for our own practice and ministry? Does the lens of fringe dwelling have anything to fresh to say to us about Jesus and about being disciples? How might we read the scriptures , particularly gospel stories, in participative ways in our communities?

Bio: Jonny Baker is the director at Church Mission Society (CMS) of mission in post Christian Britain. He is an advocate for pioneers, set up the pioneer training pathway at CMS, and is a founding member of Aspen, a spread out ecumenical ecclesial community of pioneers. He has published several books
as well as blogging consistently for over twenty years. He is a lay pioneer in the Church of England and on the leadership of Grace, a Church of England
congregation in London. He is a partner of Getsidetracked.co .
Webinar 16: Revd Sally Taylor: Postures and PRactices

Webinar 16: ’What posture and practices do we need to embody and follow in order to participate in God's Mission today?​
with Revd Sally Taylor

Tuesday 12th May 2026 at 1pm
Rev’d Sally Taylor is a Pioneer Anglican Priest working in Poole, Dorset. Sally trained at Sarum College as well as studying at CMS and served her Curacy in Hamworthy, Poole. For the past 3 years she was led an ecumenical gardening project which has reimagined a derelict urban space in the grounds of an 18th century United Reformed Church into a growing and reflective space. Out of this grew Garden church which she leads. She is an LLM Formation Officer for Salisbury Diocese . She also heads up Ember - a pastoral reflective space for churches that are facing closure or rethinking what it means to be church.
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She is passionate about enabling the church to remember its calling and be open to reimagining itself in ways that are appropriate to time and context. She teaches on the CMS Pioneer Certificate as well in other spaces and supports several lay and ordained Pioneers in their journeys. At home she is part of a small Missional Community where she lives and shares a pattern of prayer, life and resources with her neighbours. Sally is married to James who is Lead Hospital Chaplain for Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole hospitals. She has 3 children (one working, one at university and one home educated) and a full of life Cocker Spaniel

LIBRARY

The Seeking Heart: A contemplative approach to mission and pioneering ​by Ian Mobsby (2025)
Fringe Dweller ​by Jonny Baker (2026)
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A New Monastic Handbook: From Vision to Practice by Ian Mobsby and Mark Berry (2014)
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In the Fullness of Time: A story from the past and future of the Church by Paul Bradbury (2024)
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Mission Shaped and Rural: Growing Churches in the Countryside by Sally Gaze (2011)
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CONTACT US

Jeremy Putnam
Diocesan Mission Enabler for the Diocese of Exeter.

Lee Barnes
Adviser for Fresh Expressions of Church and Adviser for Curacy in the Diocese of Bristol.​

Lindsey Morgan-Lundie
Pioneer Network Facilitator for the Diocese of Truro​

Richard Priestley
New Christian Communities Development Lead