London vibe shift?
A lot of people are talking about the possible dawning of a new age of opportunity and openness to the gospel. It does seem, anecdotally, that a lot of London…
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)…
5 streams of joy for the Christian Leader
The following is an abbreviated and edited version of Jonny Burgess’ essay for the Union MTh Spiritual Formation module. ——————————————— Christian leader, how is your “inexpressible and glorious joy”…
UMP Lite Review
Guy Troop, elder at New Life Church Catford, was part of the last UMP Lite cohort. We wanted to hear his experience of the course. Can you just explain…
Am I answering the questions people are actually asking?
People usually love Fridays. For a few years, I loved Mondays. I loved them because Monday evenings I went to the seminary, back in São Paulo, Brazil, and usually had…
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…
Progressing as preachers in the midst of planting
I have never planted a church, been involved in a church plant or had any overwhelming desire to plot that particular course in ministry. However, I know many people who…
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 dangers of over and under contextualisation
Zim Okoli leads New Life Catford with Remi Adedire. Here Zim brings to bear research on the history of the Nigerian church on the issue of contextualisation. ---------------- “To over-contextualize… means you…
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…
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:
