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Gateway Adventist Centre has a culture of planting new churches – and the latest plant will go public on May 24 (read more)

 The ‘Hope Chapel’ movement has planted over 700 churches representing over 70 000 people. Some of these churches are large. Some are small. In the last three years, they have planted 19 churches in Japan. Ralph Moore is the leading voice in this movement. Some observe that everything is centred on a simple, relational and [...]

In a report in the RECORD (July 28, 2007) the leader of the Adventist church in Australia, Chester Stanley, discussed the 2006 Australian census figures which suggest as many as 10,000 on the official membership lists of the church in Australia do not now identify themselves as members. The census figures provide challenging reading for [...]

The vision of the Gateway Adventist Centre is to be “a soul-winning and training centre that multiplies churches every three years.” This is one story of a local church plant that is intentionally planting new groups and churches. Your church plant could also become a planting movement - multiplying! Check out the new pages Churches Planting [...]

Confronted by the enormous needs & hopelessness of their communities, growing numbers of Christians believe it is time to become serious about their churches becoming a movement of church-planting-churches – “gatherings” that are life-changing. Last week over 50 leaders met (south of Sydney, Australia) for a Next1000 summit – to plan & pray for the planting [...]

These figures show the increase or decline in weekly attendance in Australian churches over a 10 year period (1991-2001). The attendance picture is then compared to the increase or decline of the number of congregations in that denomination. Those that are growing are planting churches – those that are not planting churches have leveled off or [...]

Here are some facts! Church plants do fail (check out Why church plants fail? and share your comments) - but - 
 
1. Church planting is good for the “parent” church. They are healthier & grow faster despite (or because of!) having released people to church planting. Churches that have planted another in the past 5 years have higher proportions of [...]

There are two important conferences being held in Australia in the next few weeks – conferences that will foster cutting edge church planting movements:                   
Fueling an Australian Church Planting Movement : next1000 Summit
This is an opportunity for church planting leaders to meet to share stories of progress in fueling a church planting movement across Australia. [...]

next1000 is a partnership of individuals, churches and organizations actively committed to planting one thousand new Australian churches. Visit the website http://www.next1000.org/ to learn more or to download a copy of the next1000 ebook.

Recently I heard Michael Frost say that it was time for the Baptist church in Australia to be a ‘movement’ rather than just a church. There was a time when the Adventist church saw itself as a ‘movement’! That term could not be used of the church in most areas of the western/northern world. A [...]