OK, we didn’t actually choose a model; it’s more like the model chose us as it grew in our spirits. We know that 85% of Australians don’t go to church, don’t see the value of church and/or will never step foot inside a church. This formed the first aspects of our approach. We needed to […]

The number 100 came to mind as we brainstormed how we might invite and encourage people to pray for us as we planted a church. We know that an absolutely essential element to planting a church is to pray. Our own prayer lives needed to be healthy and vibrant. As a team, we needed to be […]

One of the first books we read was the most helpful. It was a book called Simple Church by Eric Geiger and Thom Rainer. The book’s premise is that for a church to effectively make disciples it needs to be as simple as possible. To do this its values need to be its discipleship making strategy […]

One of the greatest challenges we faced was knowing what to talk about in our first meeting. How much did we share? What did we ask? What would establish us on the right course? What were the absolute essentials we wanted our team to take hold of? Nothing we read or could find helped us to […]

I’ve never planted a church before so right from the get-go I felt like a fish that had just jumped out of a fishbowl and into the ocean. There are so many models by which to establish a church, and none of them are right or wrong. We’ve come to realise that the best model […]

In Matthew 16:18 Jesus says “And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it.” He was as clear as he needed to be, the church is His to build and he will build it! Our role is to […]

“They said yes!” was what I texted to Lyndal in the middle of an Elders Meeting, but the lead up to sending that text had been anything but standard or routine. Our Church Planting Story was beginning but in some ways we never saw it coming. Nine months prior I put a paper before the […]