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This week I’m in London visiting our team here. Friday and Saturday I’m at St Mary’s refresh conference in the heart of London. It’s the end of the first day and Alex the tech guy already has the sessions available for free download.

They’re all good. Debby Wright’s session is a MUST. The theme was how [...]

Off to Sweden to speak at Pionjär (Pioneer) 07. It’s their national church planting conference. If you know Sweden it’s down south in Malmo, not far from Copenhagen.

I’m going via London to catch up with Ian and Verlie Hamilton of CRM UK and drop in on refresh at St Mary’s London.

If you’ll be at either [...]

Registrations close for the next1000 on February 15.

Register here.

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The first few months of 2007 are jam-packed with excellent training opportunities. Here are some of the best.

The next1000 for church planting leaders.

Liam Glover from NxCD will be training church planting coaches in the application of Natural Church Development early in 2007. You can find out more and sign up for the workshop on the [...]

The next1000 website has launched: www.next1000.org

Visit for a free download of the next1000 ebook on how we can start 1000 Australian churches.

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Peter Roennfeldt attended the Revolution Conference in Seattle. His report on the conversion of George Barna into a spiritual revolutionary is worth a read.

George Barna

Gospel Outreach is bringing Martin Robinson out next year to run a series of one day church planting workshops around Australia.

Martin has written more books on mission, church planting and postmodernism than I’ve had hot breakfasts. . . almost.

Here’s the conference brochure.

Here’s the Gospel Outreach strategy for planting churches around Australia: Church planting info kit.

Here’s [...]

The details are out for the National (US) New Church Conference in April 2007. I was there last year and I’ll be there with a band of Aussies next year.

The blurb:

Exponential: Moving Beyond Addition – It was Jesus that cast the vision for this emerging, seeker-targeted church that would soon exponentially grow to impact [...]

Following up: Anyone for TEE? Michael Higgins has sent through this comment on the application of TEE to evangelism and church planting in the West.
A Vision for Life

October 6th-8th Friday-Sunday 2006

We invite you to join us at Weycroft Hall to explore together the challenge of discipleship and training in the UK. drawing from International and [...]

My call to fuel church planting movements came back October 1988. I wasn’t looking for it. The call found me. In fact, I wasn’t even looking to be a church planter. I stumbled into it.

For the last eighteen years I’ve been chipping away at fuelling church planting movements here in Australia and elsewhere. Every now [...]