The Joshua Centre 

The Joshua Centre has developed tonnes of experience in this area as part of the Diocese of Liverpool's overall plan for the city region, and we are pleased to recommend them.

You can click here for their website or else follow them on Twitter.

CCM church-planting resource

Our friends at Christ Church Manchester have   produced a wealth of content relevant to church planters, core teams and others in Christian ministry. They have made podcasts, "hangouts" and blog materials free to all, and can be accessed by clicking here: .

More info on CCM is at their website.

Redeemer City to City

We're inspired by the work Tim Keller and the

Redeemer City to City network have been

doing to encourage and equip church planting.   

Click here to check out this treasure trove, including content on avoiding burnout, Gospel neighbouring and lots more.

M4 Network

One of the best things to come out of Norway the M4 church planting movement.    Oivind Augland leads the movement and you can go to their website or by checking out their YouTube channel.

How to build a prayer

culture within a church

The Bible says that unless "the Lord builds the house, the workers labour in vain". Church planting must be steeped in prayer, and so here are some great resources on building the culture of prayer, from the 24:7 Prayer Network.

To run a "non-boring prayer meeting", click on this link. Or to do a course built on the Lord's Prayer, click here.

Crossing Cultures with Field Partner

Antioch has a housing estate church planting stream as well as an ethically diverse planting stream, and so developing people with keen cross-cultural awareness is crucial to our success in reaching people from different language and cultural groups. With 40 years experience of cross-cultural mission, Ross and Christine Patterson have developed a brand new resource to equip Christians reach those from different cultural backgrounds with the Gospel. To access these resources, click here:

Wise words for planting churches on housing estates

Leonce Crump is the leader of Renovations Church in the US, and he explains how he and his team prayer walk the neighbourhoods where they're based and listen to the community, to be able to serve it effectively. This is similar to our approach to planting, especially in how we aim to plant churches on housing estates.

How to share the Gospel in 3 minutes:

Francis Chan on "What is Church?"

 Francis Chan shares 4 key areas:

 (1) Love for each other

 (2) Urgent sense of Mission

 (3) Gathering around the Person and work of Jesus 

 (4) Equipping from leaders