ABSTRACT
This chapter overviews the growth of Black Majority Churches in Britain since 1980. Two further insights about the pre-1980s Black Majority Churches come from Mark Sturge. He sub-divides Edwards' categories and sees Black Majority Churches as having passed from an initial 'scattered' phase into 'community' and 'denominational' phases before reaching Edwards' 'consolidating' phase. Although it is difficult to ascribe an exact date to the start of a second wave of Black Majority Church growth in Britain in which African-led church-planting came to the fore, 1980 serves well. There was evidence of this new phase emerging in the mid-1970s and there were much stronger indications of it developing by 1985. Although the considerable contribution to this second wave made by those who were trained to plant and 'called' to plant has yet to be highlighted, sufficient commentary has been made in assessing the effect of this second wave of Black Majority Church growth on internal Black Majority Church relations.
