Resources

ForMission College encourages its undergraduate and postgraduate students to engage in research in order to better understand God’s world, his church and the mission of his people. ForMission staff also conduct their own original research, some of which has recently been published and is available here.

Since 2021, ForMission has had a dedicated Director of Research, Dr Andy Hardy. Andy is part of the editorial team of Missional Focus, the innovative mission journal published by the college. You can read Missional Focus, and subscribe, here.

Andy Hardy
Director of Research

Andy is an ordained minister and completed his doctorate in 2009 on ‘A Theology of Spiritual Formation and Prophetic Ministry.’ He also has master’s degrees in Counselling and Missiology and Evangelism and is completing a second doctorate researching the spiritual formation of students undertaking theology for ministry. Andy has written a number of books including Pictures of God: Shaping Missional Church Life (2016), and co-authored Power and the powers: the use and abuse of power in its missional context (2015), Forming multicultural partnerships: church planting in a divided society (2015), Missional discipleship after Christendom (2018), and Body and blood: the body of Christ in the life of the community (2019), with other members of the ForMission’s faculty. Andy is active in missional work in the life of the church – presently being involved in a leadership training programme in collaboration with the Bonhoeffer Project, which seeks to equip leaders and churches to develop discipleship formation structures. He is the Chair of Trustees of Sawiyan – a local charity that delivers education and community cohesion projects in the Sparkbrook area of Birmingham. Andy is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.