Boldy Bi-vocational?
James M Powell, Boldly Bi–Vocational (Christian Focus, 2025) is setting out a vision for bi-vocational church leadership and church planting which is not ‘of necessity’, not embarrassed, not second-rate but…
One Assembly?
Jonathan Leeman’s One Assembly: Rethinking the Multisite & Multiservice Church Models could equally be subtitled: ‘Rebuking the Multisite & Multiservice Church Models’. He doesn’t pull any punches and repeatedly asserts…
Future London
Ian Goldin & Tom Lee-Devlin, Age of the City: Why Our Future Will Be Won Or Lost Together, Bloomsbury, 2023. This is not a review (there's a good one here)…
Harder than it looks: 4 lessons from the first 3 years
The LCPA is based in London and our training is largely focused on the London context but we're increasingly wanting to serve planters further afield and also to learn from…
Because Hell is real, we work together as a matter of urgency
Neil Powell addressed the Planting Collective conference in May 2019 and this was his final point of a weighty message:
The rise of Asia and Africa and why that matters to church planting in London
David Kim of London City Mission (also working in an ambassadorial role for Co-Mission) shares some of his research showing why any strategy for church planting in London needs to…
Church planting as Great Commission obedience
Zim Okoli argues that planting churches is absolutely central to obeying the great commission. ----------- Now let me be clear. I’m not saying church planting is the only way to obey the Great…
We need more training on launching lifeboats
Richard Coekin, executive director of the Co-Mission church planting network compares the needs of London with the lessons learnt in the North Atlantic over a hundred years ago. ----------- The…
We’re very grateful that Neil Powell, senior pastor of City Church Birmingham, co-founder and convener of 2020 Birmingham and London director for City to City UK, will be coming to unpack Tim Keller’s Center Church for the London Church Planting Academy on 4 Wednesday afternoons:
