Packed with practical advice and insightful stories, 'How to Plant a Church' will encourage and equip anyone with a vision to start a new worshipping community, or is seeking to explore the process, guiding them through key questions.
By Bishop Ric ThorpeMay 2024
Ric Thorpe, the Church of England’s Bishop for church planting and leader of the Gregory Centre for Church Multiplication, unpacks decades of his own church planting experience and wisdom gleaned from training others.
Packed with practical advice and insightful stories, How to Plant a Church will encourage and equip anyone with a vision to start a new worshipping community, or is seeking to explore the process, guiding them through key questions:
This practical guide will inspire and instruct you as you seek to reach new people in new and renewed ways with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
‘With characteristically disarming style, Ric Thorpe has produced a book all church planters, sending church leaders and those who support them will need in their hands. It is a privileged insight into the fires of faith and purpose that have propelled a new form of leadership.’
The Revd Canon Dr Mark Powley, Archbishop’s Mission Enabler for the North
