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FaithFaith 1. Belief and trust in someone or something. 2. Acceptance of particular religious teachings. in the North looks to support the work of dioceses across the Northern Province towards the goal of 3,000 new worshipping communities.

Enabling new worshipping communities across the region

Funding Awarded

The Northern Province has been awarded £1.76 million, with an additional £1.62 million available in future funding, for a five-year programme to help northern dioceses launch up to 600 additional new worshipping communities. This grant will fund leadership training, access to specialist expertise, and a fund to accelerate church planting across the area.

Revd Dr Mark Powley and ArchbishopArchbishop Bishop who also presides over a group of dioceses or provinces. Stephen

Team

A small specialist core team

Our team offer focused consultancy, provide access to expertise and support peer learning about specific forms of planting in a range of contexts: estates; rural; children, youth and families; intercultural; resource churches; traditional Catholic; cathedrals and chaplaincy-based.

Camino

Camino

New training programme

Camino is a new collaboration between St HildHild, St (c.614-680). Sometimes Hilda. Abbess of the double monastery at Whitby. College and Faith in the North, to train more, better equipped and more diverse leaders for Northern Church Planting.

Funding

Starting New Worshipping Communities

We will offer ‘activation grants’ to local parishes who are working with a training partner, to launch a new service, congregation or community, where other funding is not available.

St Thomas Newcastle BaptismBaptism The Sacramental rite of admission into the Christian Church. The candidate is immersed in or sprinkled with water in the name of the Trinity and may also be anointed with oil.

Resource Churches

Targeted Support

We will provide additional support for Northern churches to revitalise other parishes through sending church planting teams.

New in the North

The New in the North research was commissioned to give a sense of developments with new worshipping communities in 2023.

Data for the report was gathered and analysed in 2024, based on the annual Statistics for MissionMission 1. A group of people sent out to share religious faith. 2. The task of sharing faith. returns in the Church of England.

Find out more and download the report here.



New in the North Report
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Thursday Prayers

Join us in prayer as we gather on Zoom to pray for the renewal of faith in the North.

Thursday 30th January – Estates

Thursday 13th February – Rural revitalisation and planting

Thursday 27th February – Resources Churches

Thursday 13th March – Schools and Youth

Thursday 27th March – Evangelism

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We aim to provide resources to support you on your journey to see New Worshipping Communities started across the Northern Province.

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