Catherine Widdicombe is co-founder of Avec, an agency for Church and community work, and formerly President of the Grail Society. She is experienced in working with a wide range of groups, and continues to work with groups both secular and religious. She is co-author of Churches and Communities: An Approach in Development in the Local Church. She lives in Pinner, Middlesex.

• Foreword and acknowledgementsIntroductionPart One: Small Communities in Religious LifeI. Transition in religious life: its nature and facilitationII. Community in apostolic religious lifePart Two: Opening and Closing Small CommunitiesIII. Forming small communitiesIV. Closure of a small communityPart Three: Religious Life in Small CommunitiesV. Living as a small communityVI. Leadership in the communityVII. Mission and ministryVIII. Reviewing and evaluatingIX. Community and congregationPart Four: Transition Between CommunitiesX. Moving to another communityXI. A change of community membershipPart Five: Towards Equipping Small CommunitiesXII. Problems and problem solvingXIII. Decisions and decision makingXIV. Ways of evaluating life and ministryXV. Making community meetings workXVI. Meetings and exercisesA Word in ConclusionSelected BibliographyIndex of NamesIndex

Catherine Widdicombe is co-founder of Avec, an agency for Church and community work, and formerly President of the Grail Society. She is experienced in working with a wide range of groups, and continues to work with groups both secular and religious. She is co-author of Churches and Communities: An Approach in Development in the Local Church. She lives in Pinner, Middlesex.

• Foreword and acknowledgementsIntroductionPart One: Small Communities in Religious LifeI. Transition in religious life: its nature and facilitationII. Community in apostolic religious lifePart Two: Opening and Closing Small CommunitiesIII. Forming small communitiesIV. Closure of a small communityPart Three: Religious Life in Small CommunitiesV. Living as a small communityVI. Leadership in the communityVII. Mission and ministryVIII. Reviewing and evaluatingIX. Community and congregationPart Four: Transition Between CommunitiesX. Moving to another communityXI. A change of community membershipPart Five: Towards Equipping Small CommunitiesXII. Problems and problem solvingXIII. Decisions and decision makingXIV. Ways of evaluating life and ministryXV. Making community meetings workXVI. Meetings and exercisesA Word in ConclusionSelected BibliographyIndex of NamesIndex

Catherine Widdicombe is co-founder of Avec, an agency for Church and community work, and formerly President of the Grail Society. She is experienced in working with a wide range of groups, and continues to work with groups both secular and religious. She is co-author of Churches and Communities: An Approach in Development in the Local Church. She lives in Pinner, Middlesex.

• Foreword and acknowledgementsIntroductionPart One: Small Communities in Religious LifeI. Transition in religious life: its nature and facilitationII. Community in apostolic religious lifePart Two: Opening and Closing Small CommunitiesIII. Forming small communitiesIV. Closure of a small communityPart Three: Religious Life in Small CommunitiesV. Living as a small communityVI. Leadership in the communityVII. Mission and ministryVIII. Reviewing and evaluatingIX. Community and congregationPart Four: Transition Between CommunitiesX. Moving to another communityXI. A change of community membershipPart Five: Towards Equipping Small CommunitiesXII. Problems and problem solvingXIII. Decisions and decision makingXIV. Ways of evaluating life and ministryXV. Making community meetings workXVI. Meetings and exercisesA Word in ConclusionSelected BibliographyIndex of NamesIndex