An Alpha course is run three times a year.

The Alpha course has been criticised for a charismatic emphasis.

About the same time The Alpha Course was adopted and has been run twice a year since then.

Woodlands hosts several courses regularly including the Alpha Course.

Incidentally, the Alpha Course's main advertising asks "Is this it?"

Home bible study groups run throughout the year, with Alpha Courses being run intermittently.

Alpha courses are currently being run in churches, homes, workplaces, prisons, universities and a wide variety of other locations.

Having taken charge of the Alpha course, he played a major part in transforming it from its original four-week form to its current 10-week form.

It also runs an increasing number of weekly projects, ranging from the Alpha course to a youth outreach project to a mums and tots group.

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He also has marketed the Alpha Course, a course on the basics of the Christian faith.

Various terms are used to describe this process: "alpha courses", "nursery courses", "starter groups", among others.

Over 15 million people worldwide have attended an Alpha course (two and a half million in the UK).

His plan: get an invitation to an Alpha course into the mailboxes of every home in the United States by the end of 2000.

Greyfriars runs an annual Alpha Course to allow people to explore the claims of Jesus for themselves in a non-threatening environment.

Aitken attended the Alpha Course in 1997, which he claims stirred his interest in Christianity.

As an alternative to the standard Alpha course, the Alpha organisation runs a number of courses designed for specific demographics:

There is a chapter criticising homosexual practice, although this is not unique to the Alpha course but part of the wider Evangelical context.

"The Alpha course, because of its didactic style, its narrow-mindedness and its closed nature, doesn't facilitate alternative views", he says.

The Alpha course founder Nicky Gumbel also participated.

It is where the Alpha course was first developed and is one of the most influential churches in the Church of England.

In January and April Alpha courses are begun in homes around Reading, which provide a more intimate setting.

He is known as the developer of the Alpha course, a basic introduction to Christianity supported by churches of many Christian traditions.

She has attended the Alpha course at Holy Trinity Brompton in London.

Attenders are issued with The Alpha Course Manual, which contains an outline of each talk and space for making notes.