Read / Feature
Sam Rylands
How many young people aged 11 or older attend your main worship service on Sunday morning? Zero? One or two? Five? More than 10? Over 20!? For most parish …
Grace Bally
Dr Grace Bally-Balogun, CCX Church Plant Enabler, reflects on the complexities of culture, and how we can navigate change within our church cultures successfully
Helen Shannon
Helen Shannon, leader and planter of church@five, based on the Strawberry Vale Estate in East Finchley, shares insights from their latest youth-centred …
The Vision and Strategy team – formed in 2022 to help implement the national Church of England’s Vision and Strategy for the 2020s – is seeing real signs …
Rural parishes present wonderful opportunities and unique challenges for family and youth work. Join the conversation of three practitioners from the Southwest …
Read / Book
Bishop Ric Thorpe
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 …
Paul Pavlou
Journal of a Church Planter takes us from discerning the call to plant, through to the inner life workings of the planter amid the joys and challenges …
Watch / 4 min
Diocese of Leicester
As a new worshipping community on a brand new estate in South Loughborough, STB Grange Park is seeing amazing growth with many local people finding a welcome …
Read / Resource
Threshold, a rural church planted in Lincolnshire 30 years ago and now networked with friends in Dorset and Norway, have been trying to respond to God …
Living Hope Church in Thurmaston is offering God's love and hospitality to its local community in many accessible and creative ways, demonstrating that …
A new area of ministry has opened up for St Peter's church in Oadby, Leicester, at a pub opposite the church. Pub-goers are taking up the opportunity to …
Resources to accompany Ric Thorpe's How to Plant a Church