Around one million people have been on the Alpha evangelistic course in recent years, and a new initiative is being launched to invite the nation to supper . . .
Around one million people have been on the Alpha evangelistic course in recent years. That is the impressive figure from the home of this enterprise, Holy Trinity Brompton, in London's West End.
As an example of Alpha's effectiveness, statistics from the Anglican diocese of Lichfield record that 5,000 people there have attended the 15-week programme of whom, it is claimed, 1,000 have become Christians. At a time when we are confronted with the fact that church attendance in Britain has fallen drastically even since 1980, with now only 7.5% of the population in church regularly, Alpha seems to hold out hope. 7,000 churches in Britain are promoting Alpha, and the course is being used in 108 different countries.
