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National Picture of Church Planting

Is it possible to get a national picture of church planting across all denominations, streams and networks in England? Last year the National Church Planting Network commissioned interviews with 20 people responsible for church planting in their denominations.

By Caroline Khoo Millar and Laura TreneerMarch 2022

Presented by NCPN

The questions were the big ones: what is your church planting strategy? How much time, money or people do you think it takes to start a church? What is the process? What is the definition? Do you use mapping, or have a demographic focus? This report summarises the findings and how they could be used.

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