How can you get involved with what we are doing? Training and church planting in the urban West Midlands
Tag: church planting
Thinking strategically about pastoral care and your church plant
Here’s a little prediction for church planters. As your church grows, pastoral care needs will grow too and not just in number but in complexity. If you plant with a core team of 20-30 people, you might expect the occasional situation where someone is suffering and you will be called to walk with them through… Continue reading Thinking strategically about pastoral care and your church plant
Revitalisation
My first real experience of Christian ministry was in the context of church revitalisation. A little Pentecostal Church between Bradford and Leeds had fallen on hard times, suffered a split and was down to its last half a dozen elderly members. My dad had preached there regularly after they first approached a larger church for… Continue reading Revitalisation
The leadership course
A few years back, I put together a short course to help people considering involvement in church/Christian leadership. I’ve shared it on our resources pages and it is available for free if you would like to make use of it in your church.
Church in a box
One of the key aims of Faithroot.com is to encourage and support church planting. I believe that a lot more of our church planting should be what we might refer to as pioneering. Rather than seeing a large church hive off 40 or 50 people with a staff team and budget, I believe we should… Continue reading Church in a box
When the church plant is mainly taking people from other churches
I’ve been writing a little bit recently in response to comments about church planting and whether it has played its part in the decline of existing local churches. One question that has come back my way has been “what about situations where the plant has mainly drawn members from existing churches? What if after a… Continue reading When the church plant is mainly taking people from other churches
Attitudes to Church Planting
I’m currently running this little survey to find out a bit more about attitudes to church planting. I’m particularly interested to know whether there are people seriously considering the possibility of church planting in the near future. If you are interested in church planting, then I’d like to find out a bit more about what… Continue reading Attitudes to Church Planting
TV, culture and curiosity
I’m following up on the discussion around TV and pastoral visits from the other day with some further thoughts, less to try and reach a definitive answer on the original question and more to work through some things that started to come out of the discussion. One key thing that I think came out of… Continue reading TV, culture and curiosity
An Invitation
As it’s early in January this is a good time to be thinking about medium and longer term plans. So, I’d like to encourage you to consider this invitation. One of my priorities is to see people trained and equipped for urban church planting. There are two parts to this. First, I believe that if… Continue reading An Invitation
Ten you may have missed
Yesterday I published a list of this year’s top ten most read blog articles. It’s often a surprise and sometimes frustrating to see what does and doesn’t make it towards the top of the list. Sometimes you find that people are more interested in a particular subject than you would be, sometimes, something you expect… Continue reading Ten you may have missed
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