1. Evolving models of Authority
Church planting and Bishop’s Mission Orders

3. City Centre Resource churches – already started4
Started: 14
Gateshead
Salford
Lincoln
Nottingham
Birmingham
Brighton
Portsmouth
Bournemouth
Plymouth
London
Norwich

5. History
Joining in with an ancient tradition since St Augustine & St Cuthbert
1st Bishop of Islington

6. Minster
Parish
Daughter church

7. What part does church planting play in the growth of the church?
Invite 8%
8+%?
Grow
Plant

8. Capital Vision 2020
To create or renew 100 worshipping communities

9. 100 new worshipping communities
London’s history of church planting
Permission giving culture
Policy & legal framework
Structures to support church planting

12. Getting on with it… Learning as we go
Bishop's initiative and encouragement
Communication
Stakeholders
Information and listening
Consulting early
Moving from reactive to proactive

13. Kings Cross Church Team of 30 Uses a BMO
Planted from St Mary’s Bryanston Square
Planted into St Silas Pentonville & St Andrew’s Barnsbury
Focussed on people around Kings Cross
Uses a BMO

14. Grace Church Highlands
Team of 30
Planted from Christchurch Cockfosters
Planted in St Peter’s Grange Park Parish
Based in a school in Highlands Village
Uses a BMO

15. St Luke’s Millwall Graft Team of 25
Focussed on Isle of Dogs inner estates
Planted from St Paul’s Shadwell
Planted into Christchurch Isle of Dogs Parish
Uses a BMO

16. Gurnell Grove Estate Mission community Team of 7
Focussed on Gurnell Grove Estate
Planted from St Paul’s Ealing
Planted into another parish
Uses a BMO

17. So far… 67 plants from 1985-2015 54 cross a border 20 BMOs
34/100 NWC in CV2020

18. Core elements for planting
Authority
Leader / team
Building / place
Resources