Church Planting Resources

At Multiply 2025, the annual church planting conference of CCX, Gerald Griffin shared the experiences of Bridgetown Church as it examined its relationship with disciple making.

Grace Bally-Balogun leads a theological reflection on Galatians 3 at Multiply 2025, the annual church planting conference of CCX.

On Tuesday 10 September 2024, a small-but-dedicated group of leaders from a range of streams and denominations gathered at the CCX offices in the shadow of St Paul’s Cathedral, London.

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, or is seeking to explore the process, guiding them through key questions.

What does it take to plant a church?

How do we get from the theory of Mixed Ecology to practice? How do we create communities where what’s new flourishes alongside the traditional? Mark Powley, Archbishop's Mission Enabler for the North, outlines why The Mixed Ecologists report provides a helpful and attentive guide to these questions.

Many have written on the ‘how to’s of creating new Christian congregations and forms of church but often neglect the fundamental question of why it is necessary in the first place. What is so important about church planting? Why not focus on building up existing congregations?

Over three days of June, across four beautiful churches in Bristol, Leeds, Birmingham and London, over 700 people gathered with a shared heart of seeing the Church multiply, to reach new people in new and renewed ways with the love of Christ. David Cornish shares the highlights of what took place at the Multiply 2023 Church Planting Conference.