Resources

This structured conversation of Multiply: North on Tuesday 23 June saw Aaron Elder, leader of Cornerstone Baptist Church in Leeds, and Alex Rayment, leader of Penny Lane Church in Liverpool, share their experiences and reflections on how to establish and maintain a healthy team culture that inspires and encourages church planting. 

This structured conversation of Multiply: North on Tuesday 23 June saw Marjorie Allan and David Sisson of The Well, Sheffield, and Hannah Patton, leader of St John's Goole, share their experiences of church planting and leading church revitalisations.

Tom Finnemore shared lessons at Multiply: North that the team of St Thomas Crookes have learnt as a mixed church of Baptist and Anglican traditions, serving the city of Sheffield with a range of transformational gatherings and ministries. 

At Multiply: North in Leeds on Tuesday 23 June, Bishop Eleanor addressed the gathered leaders on the subject of Heart Lessons, drawing on her experiences of serving communities in New Zealand and beyond.

At Multiply: North, held in Leeds on Tuesday 23 June, Alex Harris addressed the gathered leaders to offer encouragement and challenge on the topic of the Great Collaboration, drawing on the words of Jesus' prayer in John 17, "I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me."

Listening to the Voice of Rural Church Planters and Pioneers presents the experiences of those engaged in starting new forms of Church for the rural context. It is the hope of CCX that this research has the potential to serve both as a tool for advocacy and a practical guide for those directly engaged in planting and supporting rural churches more widely.

Part lived experience and part reframed theological framework, Positive Urban Theology is a bold and hopeful invitation to reimagine urban mission and God’s presence on the estate.

A report on what helps estates church plants begin, grow, and flourish

At Multiply Estates Mission 2026, Helen Shannon encouraged delegates with a powerful reminder that we need to say yes to God's call, and trust that the God who calls us will also enable us.

Be inspired by Mark Tate's talk from Multiply Estates Mission 2026, challenging all those called to estates ministry that the Kingdom of God is like yeast, worked into the dough, not a finished loaf.

Participation and Church Planting is a collection of writings and essays that seek to draw together scholars from biblical studies, systematic and historical theology, and practical theology to reflect on how the concept of participation can help us to think theologically about church planting.

This exciting collection of case studies sees clergy from both the US and UK share examples of congregations that have reimagined what it means to be a church in the 21st century.