Christians at Work, which for the past 75 years has been encouraging Christian fellowship and witness in places of work, will cease to exist at the end of 2017.
The decision to end the work was taken at the Annual Conference on 30 September.
Increasingly difficult
In recent years, Christians at Work’s core strategy of forming Christian groups as a base for a witness to colleagues, has become increasingly difficult to sustain, owing to equality legislation and the politically-correct tendencies of managements. A dwindling support base has also left the group without the resources it needed to continue.
In workplaces with managements well-disposed towards Christian fellowships, existing groups will continue independently following the closure.
Christians at Work was founded as the War-Time Christian Union in 1942 by Miss Daisy Wright, a banker’s daughter from Woking. After the War it became the Workers’ Christian Fellowship, and changed its name to Christians at Work in 1985.
