Church Planting
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.
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
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.
Resource Churches
Targeted Support
We will provide additional support for Northern churches to revitalise other parishes through sending church planting teams.
Resourcing the Church?
This newly commissioned research paper, co-sponsored by Faith in the North, CCX and The BedeBede, the Venerable (c.673-735) Anglo-Saxon historian and biblical scholar. Sent to study at the monastery of Wearmouth at seven; later transferred to Jarrow. Renowned in his lifetime for his learning, Bede wrote treatises on poetry, time and cosmography. Historical works include History of the Abbots, prose and verse versions of the Life of St Cuthbert and Ecclesiastical History of the English People. Centre for Church Planting TheologyTheology (Literally 'words about God') Ideas about the nature of God and church doctrine. Theological ideas have constantly changed and developed throughout church history., reflects on the present status and future prospects of resource churches in the Church of England. It finds significant signs of congregational growth and engagement with young people, while raising key questions about the diversity of church traditions currently involved.
“This is an honest & hopeful account of resource churches: exactly the typeType A person or event (usually in the Old Testament) which while accepted as historical was also held to foreshadow some aspect of Christ or the Church e.g. Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac was seen as a type of God's sacrifice of his only son. of realistic, missionMission 1. A group of people sent out to share religious faith. 2. The task of sharing faith.-minded reflection we need more of. As a resource church leader there is plenty of rich material in here for me to reflect on, and which will help us be more faithful to what God is inviting us into.” Revd Dr Will Foulger, VicarVicar (Latin vicarius 'substitute') 1. A substitute, representative, or proxy. 2. Title given to priest responsible for caring for a parish. In the Middle Ages many rectors (who had the right to the income from a parish church) appointed vicars to care for the parish in their place. Now also used of a priest who is a member (team vicar) of a team ministry. at St Nics Church DurhamDurham Durham Cathedral has its origins in the small church built in 995 to protect the relics of St Cuthbert. A century later, construction began on the church of the Benedictine Abbey, and Cuthbert's remains were transferred there and placed in a shrine in 1104. In 1242 the bones of Cuthbert were once again moved, this time to a shrine near the entrance of the Chapel of the Nine Altars.
Find out more and download the report here.
Hope Filled Conversations
Over 90 people gathered together in January 2025 to share in Hope-filled Conversations, a two-day conference about planting and growing intercultural and ethnolinguistic congregations.
Find out more about the event here.
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 Mission returns in the Church of England.
Find out more and download the report here.
Thursday Prayers
Join us in prayer as we gather on Zoom to pray for the renewal of faith in the North.
These take place from 7.40am – 8.00am. If you would like to join please click here to receive the link.
25 September 2025 – Intercultural
9 October 2025 – Estates
23 October 2025 – Evangelism
6 November 2025 – Small New Worshipping Communities
20 November 2025 – Resource Churches
4 December 2025 – Rural
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