Starting new churches

1) Why do you plant churches when there are lots already?

The New Testament describes a number of ways new churches began. These include the preaching of the gospel to large crowds; giving an account before a few people; gathering a crowd through miracles taking place; and teaching in a home. Newfrontiers is involved in all of these. One particular area of success has been through Alpha courses, which continue to result in people coming to faith and small groups being started in various places - the beginnings of new churches.

Many of our churches, some of which now number in the hundreds, started in a similar way with a small group meeting in someone's home. As we start new churches, we also want to see churches grow to hundreds and even thousands.  Large churches can have a large impact upon a town or city and resource so much more.
 
"God has called us as a movement to this great task of planting churches. As God builds our family of churches into an army on the move I believe we will be amazed at the increasing rate churches will be planted."
Colin Baron (South Manchester Family Church - UK)

" The need to model New Testament churches that are genuinely biblically based and are authentically open to the Spirit is a huge challenge and is something we must fulfill"
Terry Virgo (Church of Christ the King - Brighton UK)

2) Where are we currently starting churches?

We are starting churches in many nations across the world. For more detailed information click on the individual nations from the 'select country' drop down box on the left hand side.

3) What is your church planting strategy?

We are working with apostolic teams across the nations and are flexible in our strategy to start churches wanting to be open to the Holy Spirit's leading.  The Gospel not only needs to be proclaimed, but also to be demonstrated in tangible ways, and the best way is through Christians living out the Gospel together in a locality. In this way new communities are established, often in places that have not seen authentic Christianity outworked through the church. Whether in major cities and towns, or small rural communities, we long to help evangelise the nations through starting churches across the world.