Category: Church Planting

Looking for 200 church planters….

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To get to the next step of 400 churches in the UK, we are going to need to plant just under 200 more churches. One of the most exciting events in the “Towards 400 initiative” is base camp. It’s a new conference to help find and train the next 200 church plant leaders. This October […]

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Church planting in Northern Europe

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In this video Mike Betts share his vision for church planting in Northern Europe. Church Planting in Northern Europe from Andy Moyle on Vimeo. In it he mentions the 15th Century Hanseatic league, which was an important trading organisation amongst the Northern European ports. King’s Lynn was part of it and will be celebrating its […]

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Gathering the first 50

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Once you have moved, gathered your core team, talked to other local church leaders, you need to gather your first 50. Fifty is a viable number for a public Sunday morning launch. It’s enough people to make things work and for it not to rattle! So where do you get they come from? People join […]

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Charitable Status

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Setting up as a Charity Church plants exist for charitable purposes under English and Welsh law – that is we exist to spread religion! As such when income grows to more than £5000 per annum, there is a statutory duty to register as a charity. An added benefit is that as a charity, you can […]

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Gdansk Church Plant

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Kev and Em Riley really have gone on a Church planting adventure – moving to Gdansk in Poland to plant Grace Church Gdansk. They have organised a Poland weeked 17-19th July for other adventurers to taste the plant too. Kev writes…. Someone once said, “What happens in Gdansk, moves the world”.The beginning of a world […]

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Ethnographics

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When Paul walked round Athens in Acts 17 he was getting a feel for the place and working out how he could communicate the Gospel to the people there. That’s now called “ethnographics” . Paul walked round, observing, talking to people and getting distressed by the sheer scale of idolatry. Verse 16 “While Paul was […]

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Russian Ministry Part 2

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This year we want to see a Russian speaking small group established at The Gateway Church from among the 4500 or so Eastern Europeans in the area. Daniel & Alisa Foytik are key in that – last year they did a great job making contacts and serving the Russian speaking community – to the point […]

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Church Plant Websites

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A good website is an important tool in your publicity armoury. It’s an anonymous way for people to check you out and quickly communicates your vision, values and what you do. The look and feel communicate that as loudly as the words! Vision and values are caught as well as taught. So it is worth […]

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Russian Ministry

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Last year saw an amazing start to our ministry with Russian speakers in Kings Lynn. Daniel & Alisa Foytik came over for the year from Tver, Russian on voluntary workers visas. They were fantastic at making contacts and getting right into the heart of the Russian speaking migrant worker community. Kings Lynn is a dormitory […]

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Gathering your core team

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Who do you want on your church planting core team? So you have worked out you have the characteristics of a church planter, you’ve realised from Acts 18 that most people will come because you ask them, but who do you ask? 1) Make a wish-list of the skills in the plant you will need […]

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