Myriad Online Learning

Resources for lay-led planting teams on a Myriad Pathway

Welcome to Stage 3: Planting

Welcome back! One year into your journey and we hope that you’ve made progress in setting the overall trajectory (vision) for your new church community and your team is now starting to form along with sustainable patterns of prayer and planning.

In this stage we look at the important elements of going public with your new church community. What are the key things we need to consider?

Stage 3 Topics

Pre-gathering task

Activity for you to do before you come to G2

Putting your foot down

Connecting with your community

Pitfalls

Discipleship pathways

Shaping your activities

Looking for your action plans?

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Church planting resources

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Inspiring lay-led renewal in Norwich

Dave Lloyd and Charlotte Bayes share their excitement in partnering with Myriad to grow a diocesan lay-planting training hub in Norwich.

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Rejoicing and learning with Sale's Myriad Hub

Steve Rankin shares his experience of establishing a Myriad Hub to support lay-led planting across Sale, Greater Manchester.

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Multiplying new worshipping communities in Belgrave

Out of an initial idea to run a Messy Church, Belgrave St Peter’s Church in Leicester is now running three new monthly gatherings, reaching out to support …

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Pub outreach shares Jesus with the people of Oadby

Diocese of Leicester

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 …

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Myriad Year One: The reflections of John McGinley

John McGinley

Myriad is marking an exciting first year of offering the Learning Pathway — training that equips lay planters over two and a half years with the tools …

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Making disciples: The story of Martin Jones

David Cornish

In 2021, God placed a conviction on Martin Jones' heart around making disciples. On realising that he didn't quite know what that would involve, he began …

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Myriad: The growing impact of Community Ark

Lizzie Hackney leads Community Ark - an online community formed to reach people that couldn't or wouldn't feel able to attend in-person gatherings, but …

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The Church of Tomorrow

John McGinley

What if what we are witnessing is not the decline of the Church but its rebirth?

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Myriad launches its first National Hub

David Cornish

Over 30 people across 10 teams gathered in Leicester for the inaugural Myriad National Learning Pathway gathering, exploring the theme of vision and discernment …

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Preparing the ground with prayer

David Vincent and Pauline Mack

Pauline Mack led a city-wide prayer initiative in Telford for many years and has seen the church's mission change as they have prayed together. This conversation …

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Lightwave: Lay leadership in rural church

John McGinley and Diane Grano

Diane Grano is a rural Resource Church Leader and co-leader for the Lightwave Community in Red Lodge in Suffolk. Diane spoke to Myriad about her team’s …

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Multiply 2022 Conversations: A conversation on lay …

Bernice Hardie and John McGinley

Bernice Hardie is the leader of WAVE Church in North London, a mixed ability church group where individuals with and without learning disabilities come …