The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, has said the establishment of Fresh Expressions has been a high point of his primacy.
Speaking on the day he announced his resignation and his move to Cambridge as Master of Magdalene College, Dr Williams said:
I think the two things I look back on with greatest satisfaction are that we've managed in the Church of England to launch this very new mission outreach programme Fresh Expressions, and get the Church of England to recognise the possibility of new styles of congregational life and new styles of training for ministers to go with it. I think that's really begun to build itself in to the life of the Church.
Speaking in an interview recorded by the Press Association, Dr Williams added:
And in the last couple of years we've also managed to launch the new Anglican Alliance for Relief and Development worldwide.
Rowan Williams, along with the Methodist Council, established Fresh Expressions soon after the publication of the Mission-shaped Church report, and described it as
one of the big positives of the last 10 years.
The full transcript of the interview and the related video can be found on the Anglican Communion News Service website.