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3DM

3dm (3 dimension ministries) is the global home for an organic movement of biblical discipleship and missional church. We always try to reflect the three dimensions of Jesus' life - Upwards towards God the Father - Inwards towards the community of disciples - and Outwards towards a world in need of Gods love...

ACTUALReality

The ActualReality CD ROM is a critically acclaimed interactive exploration of the Christian faith, which uses the best in Christian music, videos, cartoons, interviews, and quick time movies to discover what the Bible is about.

Cell Church UK

Cell UK exists to encourage and promote the development of relevant cell churches across the denominations in the United Kingdom.  To this end Cell UK provides a range of resources for those interested in cell church, in the process of transitioning to the cell church model or planting a new cell church.

CPAS

An Anglican agency providing a wide range of resourcing and consultation for ministry and mission.

Church Army

Church Army is a Society of Evangelists within the Anglican Communion, which exists to enable people to come to a living faith in Jesus Christ. It's increasing emphasis is in placing its staff into pioneer teams to plant fresh expressions of church.

emergingchurch.info

This is an inter-denominational  resourced site for cutting-edge mission planting.

Fresh Expressions

The site was launched by the Archbishop of Canterbury on 16th February 2005 with the aim of resourcing a growing movement of fresh expressions of church.

re:jesus

A contemporary ecumentical evangelistic website to use in spreading the good news. Take a look, and participate in their forums.

Re:Source

An interdenominational process for training leaders and teams planting youth and young adults congregations.

The Sheffield Centre

In 1991 Archbishop George Carey invited Church Army to 'regroup' around its evangelistic identity.  One response has been the creation of the Sheffield Centre - to become a centre of excellence in Church Planting and Evangelism.  Led by George Lings and based in Sheffield it has close links with the ACPI team.

Steve Addison

Steve Addison's blog about movements for the renewal and expansion of the church. Steve is part of CRM.

Stream247

An on-line department store managed by St Thomas' Church in Sheffield, UK.  Our vision is to promote, enable and support mission through the release and distribution of Christian resources on a national and international scale to all cultures everywhere.

St Thomas Church, Sheffield

A large Anglican/Baptist Church developing a dispersed model across a city.  This involves a Minster/Resourcing centre and multiplying celebrations and clusters.  There is also an emerging Order of Mission focused on the training and releasing of missional leaders. St Thomas' host the ACPI office and this link provides support for those developing clusters/mid-sized communities in mission

Tribal Generation

A movement which seeks to encourage, equip and develop young adults in leadership to see new expressions of church for the emerging generation.

The Order of Mission (TOM)

The Order of Mission is a community committed to each other, under God, for the purpose of mission. Established in 2003 by the Archbishop of York, members of the Order are working in partnership with a variety of churches and denominations around the world, to raise up, equip and support missional leaders who will pioneer new expressions of church for our day and in our cultures.

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Ordained Pioneer Ministry guidelines - download your copy!

The Fresh Expressions website is full of resources for those involved in church ministry. Amongst other resources - guidelines for Ordained Pioneer Ministry are available for download here.

Lambeth Gathering - Podcast

Over 40 candidates for ordained pioneer ministry gathered at Lambeth in October 2007 for a one day consultation with Archbishop Rowan and each other. Listen to the Archbishop's address here.

Job opportunity: Carptenters Community Church

Associate church of St Andrews are seeking a full time youth pastor to work with church and youth in the community. (Job Page)

Watchnight Prayers - Live Video stream for churches

Archbishop Rowan and Methodist President Martin Atkins will lead "Watchnight Prayers for Mission & the nation" on New Years Eve 2007. All churches will be able to get a video link for use in Watchnight events.

National Anglican Church Planting Conference 2007

This conference was a great success at the start of October 2007 looking towards 'Hope for the future'. The recordings and accompanying PowerPoints are now online for those who missed out or want to re-listen to the sessions. Click here

Is planning "Old Hat" for church planting and Fresh Expressions of church?

Bob Hopkins explores the conflicting values of planning vs the organic development of church plants and fresh expressions of church. Click here

Homogenous Unit Principle Paper

This paper by the Lausanne Committee for Evangelism has now been published to the articles section of the website. This is of particular reference to those on a Mission Shaped Ministry course. Click here

New Job Listing

Pioneer training opportunity with youth / families in Mansfield. Click here for more information

Cluster book

Bob Hopkins & Mike Breen explore the concept of mid-sized expressions of church - clusters, as a way of radically reconfiguring and recovering truly biblical congregations in their latest book. Click here for more details, and to purchase.

Mission Audit

This new section of our website seeks to meet the need for the increasing importance of new and up to date Mission Audit resources - including the new booklet 'Listening for Mission' released October 2006.  (Click here)

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