Major Church Planting Conference Report Published

|TOP|The Mission 21 Conference was held at Philadelphia Campus, St Thomas’ Church in Sheffield, during March 2006.

To help spread all the important issues that were discussed during the event, issue 9 of Healthy Church Magazine has provided a summary of all that was said at the Conference. Fourteen different papers are included to inform, encourage and stimulate discussion among church leaders and members.

Mission21 was a major conference to encourage and equip church planting and fresh expressions of church. It brought together leaders – both activists and strategists – to consider what God is doing at this time, to assess the new landscape, honestly face past failures, and look at our faith and expectations for the future.

|AD|Philip Walker from Healthy Church, testified, “All over the UK, a fresh wind of God’s Spirit is producing many and varied new forms of Church. Even where church planting has not featured highly on the agenda of many streams and denominations there is a growing grass-roots level emergence of church planting activity.

“Even plants which appear to be traditional are finding new ways of being Church in terms of how they build community and reach out to the communities around them. This activity is happening right across the diverse cultures that make up the UK Church today – including Afro-Caribbean, British Asian and other minority groupings.”

The event was jointly sponsored by the Group for Evangelisation of Churches Together in England, Together in Mission and Wycliffe Bible Translators.

This issue of Healthy Church Magazine is described as a valuable resource for those present at the Conference and for those who were not able to be present.