ReWild — organic churches across the South West

Cornwall & Devon · South West UK

Let the church go wild again.

ReWild is a growing network of small, organic churches across the South West — rooted in place, light on structure, serious about Jesus. No building. No performance. Just people learning to love their neighbourhood well.

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Community development Social activism Prayer Following Jesus

What we are

Church small enough to fit round a table, wild enough to change a street.

Most of us grew up with church as an event you attend. We're after something older and simpler — a handful of people in a real place, sharing food, sharing money, praying honestly, and showing up for their neighbours over years rather than Sundays.

ReWild communities are deliberately small. When one grows past about twenty, it seeds another. There's no stage, no rota, no professional class of Christian. Leadership is shared, decisions are made together, and everyone is expected to bring something.

We stand in the Anabaptist tradition — peace-making, community of goods, following Jesus in practice rather than only in belief — and we hold it with open hands. If you're curious, sceptical, deconstructing, or just tired of what church became, there's room at the table.

Our rhythms

Four things we keep doing.

Not a programme — a way of life we return to, week after week, in whatever place we've been put.

Community development

Working the long, unglamorous way alongside our neighbourhoods — food, housing, isolation, land. Assets not deficits; with people, never for them.

Social activism

Jesus subverted religious power and ate with the outcast. We follow him into the places where things are unjust, and we do it non-violently.

Prayer

Contemplative and charismatic together. Silence, scripture, listening, and an expectation that the Spirit still speaks and still heals.

Following Jesus

Everything else grows from this. Not a doctrine to sign but a person to follow — into forgiveness, enemy-love, and a bigger table than we're comfortable with.

Where & when

Find us across the South West.

Homes, pubs, allotments, community halls. Turn up as you are — you'll probably be fed.

Ask about a gathering
  • Truro Shared meal and open table, in a home near the city centre. Thursdays · 7pm
  • Falmouth Students, makers and harbour folk. Prayer, food, and a walk. Sundays · 5pm
  • Exeter Neighbourhood group working with local food and housing projects. Tuesdays · 7.30pm
  • Kernow-wide Monthly gathering of the whole network — worship, food, and land work. Monthly · Saturday

Nothing near you? That's often how these start. If you're in the South West and something in you is stirring about your own street, get in touch — we'll walk it with you and help you begin.

The story

Started small. Meant to stay that way.

ReWild grew out of years of ordinary work in Cornwall — community projects, retreat spaces, kitchen tables, and a stubborn conviction that the church Jesus started looked a lot less like an institution and a lot more like a movement of friends.

We're connected to the wider Anabaptist and Mennonite family, and we're building something that can be handed on: simple enough for anyone to start, rooted enough to last, accountable enough to be safe.

If that resonates — whether you want to visit, to help, or to plant something where you live — we'd love to hear from you.

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