Seeds of Hope

Church Planting and fresh expressions of church in a changing context
Parish churches alone are no longer able to meet the needs of the highly mobile society of today. We need a range of expressions of church to engage with the variety of networks in our communities.
Mission-Shaped Church is a Church of England report, published in [...]

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Ed Stetzer wrote “Planting New Churches in a Postmodern Age”, in 2003, providing ‘an instruction book for planting biblically faithful and culturally relevant churches’.
Ed has planted churches in New York, Georgia and Pennsylvania. He serves as the Missiologist and Research Team Director at the North American Mission Board in Alpharetta, GA (Southern Baptist) and co-pastor [...]

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I’m starting a series on models of church planting, using material from Church Planting: The Training Manual, by Martin Robinson and David Spriggs. The book, published in 1995, is out of print.
First post is on three ways of starting ‘daughter churches’, the most widely used model.
The concept of ‘daughter church’ usually implies a relationship of [...]

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