Explore Church Planting
Session Five: Getting ready to plant
In this final session of Explore Church Planting, we begin to think of how we might get ourselves ready to plant a new church, using five key questions to examine the qualities this will draw on. Click each section heading to play video.
1. Getting ready to plant
16 minutes
Christian Selvaratnam unpacks what we can do to be ready to plant a new church, asking questions of the qualities and characteristics of a church planter.
2. Historical case study: The last 50 years of church planting
13 minutes
Bob Hopkins has led Anglican Church Planting Initiatives for 40 years, training individuals to plant churches. He shares some of the common themes that have emerged in the past five decades of church planting.
3. Contemporary story: Tom Murray
13 minutes
Tom Murray is a planting curate, stepping out to plant from a large Oxford church onto a low-income estate.
