Accelerator Programme Handbook 2020/21 Welcome to the Church Planters Accelerator Programme! We are delighted to have the opportunity to journey and support you over the upcoming 12 months as you prepare to plant a church. We have been praying that you will grow and flourish over this coming year and look forward to getting to know you and the team as God draws alongside you.

CRT’s vision is to play our part in the ‘evangelisation of the nations, the revitalisation of the church and the transformation of society’, by planting new churches in key locations across the Welcome nation. We dare to believe that, whilst being led by the Spirit, we can play our small part in reversing the tide of church decline and see the Kingdom of God grow in our nation.

Your leadership development is central to the future flourishing of your church and its impact in the context God is calling you into. CRT’s Accelerator Programme is designed to provide you with the best possible support, resource and training through a mixed model of ‘taught’ and ‘caught.’ Your training is designed to dove tail with your allocated Sunday Services, post ordination training and ministry responsibilities. The curriculum is structured into 3 Academic to the Terms (Autumn, Spring and Summer) which include 26 weekly module sessions on Mondays 11-3.30pm including weekly homework assignments.

Each module is designed to provide you with best practice ministry and operational tools, grass roots experience from our national network of church planters, theological approaches to mission and ministry and a focus on your personal leadership development, which is pivotal to your future flourishing ministry and team. Accelerator We ensure that during the year you have completed; the School of preaching, prison and hospital visits, run an Alpha group, Homeless shelter and projects; attended the Marriage course and the Clergy Marriage retreat with your spouse. The AP is open for your church planting team to attend at any stage, with bespoke modules for your Spouse, Operations Manager, Worship, Children’s and Youth/Student Pastors.

Each module speaker has been chosen for their expertise in the area as well as being outstanding practitioners in their field. We hope that you will have the opportunity to ask Programme questions, glean from earlier planter’s experience and be well prepared and resourced for your first year of planting. We will be encouraging 1-1s with your spiritual director while resourcing you with a coaching qualification and site visits to existing CCRCs. The CRT team are here to support you through our operational and ministry Tool kits, 1-1 operational and buildings project management meetings and ongoing prayer.

George Bernard Shaw once said, ‘You see things; and you say ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?’. We too say why not – believing you and your team can bring fresh dreams of new life and new hope to a city. It can be a roller coaster ride and we will be cheering you on and praying for you at each stage of the journey.

Let the adventure begin!

Sarah Jackson CEO, Church Revitalisation Trust

5 The CRT Contents

Introduction from Sarah 3 Timetable 6 Accelerator The CRT Team - Who’s Who 14 Patrons 18 Board of Trustees 19 HTB Church Network and Events 22 Focus and Leadership Conference 28 Programme Map of Church Plants to Visit 32 HTB College 34 Clergy Marriage Retreat 36 Love Your Neighbour 38 Social Transformation 40 Handbook AP Chapters 1-26 45 Additional AP Courses 168 HTB Courses 178 CRT Online Toolkit 182 Recommended Reading List 185 2020/21 Handbook Information 197

6 7 Timetable Autumn Term Spring Term Summer Term

Chapters/Events Dates Time Subject Chapters/Events Dates Time Subject

1100-1300 Introduction & Overview Monday Bristol Site Visit: Reaching the Unchurched & Media, 7. Bristol Visit 1100-1530 1. The Theology of Church Monday 26 October 2020 Marketing and Branding Planting 7 September 2020 1330-1530 The Theology of Church Planting 1100-1300 Racial Diversity Monday 8. Diversity & Prayer 2 November 2020 1100-1300 Approach to Accelerator Programme 1330-1530 Prayer in Difficult Situations Monday 2. Vision and Strategy 14 September 2020 1330-1530 SDF, Finance and Buildings, The Common Fund Monday 9. Branding & Media 1100 - 1530 Branding and Media 9 November 2020

1100-1300 Vision to Action Evangelism: How to run and grow a church for the 1100-1300 Monday unchurched? 3. Vision to Action Monday 21 September 2020 10. Evangelism 16 November 2020 1330-1530 Building the Dream Team and Agile Teams 1330-1530 Reaching the Unchurched

1100-1300 PDR, Hiring, Firing and Performance Management Friday - Sunday Clergy Marriage Retreat 20 - 22 November Weekend Monday 4. HR & Operations 2020 28 September 2020 1330-1530 Difficult Staff Discussions & Church Operations 1100-1300 Ministry and the Holy Spirit Monday 11. Ministry 23 November 2020 1100-1300 Well-being 5. Healthy Mind Monday 1330-1530 Fearless Leadership and Selfcare 5 October 2020 1330-1530 Healthy Boundaries and Selfcare 1100-1300 Discipleship 12. Discipleship and Monday 1100-1300 Legal, Governance, Finance and Budgets Leadership 30 November 2020 Monday 1330-1530 Leadership 6. Finance & Giving 12 October 2020 1330-1530 Giving and Fundraising 1100-1300 Planting into Areas of Social Deprivation 13. Estates and Social Monday Deprivation 7 December 2020 Half Term 19 October - 23 October 1330-1530 Prison Ministry

8 9 Timetable

Chapters/Events Dates Time Subject Chapters/Events Dates Time Subject

Church Planting Course - Monday Thursday 14. City Mapping 1100-1530 City Mapping & Reflections from Andover Centre for Church Planting 0930-1600 14 December 2020 4 February 2021 and Growth

Monday 15. First 100 Days 1330-1530 100 Day Plan and 52-week teaching programme 1100-1300 Reaching The Next Generation 4 January 2021 20. 0 to 25s: The next Monday Generations 8 February 2021 1100-1300 Preparing for launch 1330-1530 Kids Ministry, Youth and Students Monday 16. Launch Day 11 January 2021 Church Planting Course - Thursday 1330-1530 Preaching Programme, Press and Media Centre for Church Planting 0930-1600 11 February 2021 and Growth

1100-1300 Impact Management & Theory of Change Half Term 15 February - 19 February Wednesday 17. Impact 18 January 2021 The Story of Love Church and Breaking Through Church 1330-1530 Impact Management & Data Collection 1100-1300 Planting Barriers 21. Church Planting and the Monday Diocese 22 February 2021 Wokefield Retreat Thursday - Friday How To Be a Blessing to your Bishop, Structures of 1330-1530 De Vere Wokefield Hotel 21 - 22 January 2021 the C of E

Church Planting Course - Thursday Centre for Church Planting 0930-1600 1100-1300 Strong Marriage, Strong Ministry 21 January 2021 and Growth 22. Ministry and Monday Marriage 1 March 2021 Planting a Church Together: Spouse Session 1100-1300 Creating Culture 1330-1530 Please invite your spouse! Monday 18. Sustained Ministry 25 January 2021 Church Planting Course - Thursday 1330-1530 Top Tips For Sustained Ministry Centre for Church Planting 0930-1600 4 March 2021 and Growth Church Planting Course - Thursday Centre for Church Planting 0930-1600 1100-1300 The Role of Worship to set the Culture 28 January 2021 and Growth Monday 23. Worship 8 March 2021 Latimer Retreat Thursday - Friday Great Missenden Abbey 28 - 29 January 2021 1330-1530 The Theology of Worship & How to Support Worship Leaders

Church Planting Course - Monday Thursday 19. Social Transformation 1100-1530 Church and Society Centre for Church Planting 0930-1600 1 February 2021 11 March 2021 and Growth

10 11 Timetable

Chapters/Events Dates Time Subject

Thursday Assemble All Day 11 March 2021

1100-1300 Existing Congregations, PPCs, Church Wardens, APCM Monday 24. Compliance 15 March 2021 1330-1530 Safeguarding and GDPR

Church Planting Course - Thursday Centre for Church Planting 0930-1600 18 March 2021 and Growth

1100-1300 The Heart of the HTB Network 25. Network & Transforming Monday the Church 22 March 2021 1330-1530 Transforming Church Conflict

1100-1300 Team Presentations Monday 26. Gradutation 29 March 2021 1330-1530 Graduation and Special Lunch

Coaching for Leadership April - June 2021 0930-1730 Dates to be confirmed. Resurgo

Monday - Friday Distinctive Leadership Course 0930-1700 26 April - 30 April 2021

Monday - Tuesday Leadership Conference 2021 All Day 3 - 4 May 2021

Friday - Tuesday FOCUS All Day 23 - 28 July 2021

12 13 The Church Revitalisation Trust

14 15 Sarah Jackson Kim Vaudrey Modupe Ogunniyi Andrew Parsons

CEO Chief Operating Officer Head of Communications Director of Building Development Sarah is the force behind CRT. She is passionate about Kim joined CRT in July 2017 as Director of Operations Modupe started with CRT in September 2020 with 7+ Andrew is responsible for ‘all things buildings’. This the revitalisation of the church across the UK and will and is responsible for CRT’s finances, operations and years’ experience in media and marketing including can include identifying suitable buildings, instructing do everything she can to make this happen. Having project delivery. Having started his career in financial senior roles. She is responsible for the comprehensive structural and valuation surveys, assessing the costs of been part of a planting team in 2000, she speaks services, Kim spent several years in operations in the planning and coordination of CRT and Love Your refurbishment, drafting provisional budgets, instructing from experience and can identify key transitions of hedge fund industry before joining HTB in 2014. He Neighbour communications, ensuring that a coherent architects and managing the tender process. Andrew’s church development and team change management. spent time in the Finance and Giving teams before his message runs through all communications, including the role is to work with church leaders to deliver a building Previously, she ran a property and design company current role as COO with CRT. website and social media, publications, media and PR. that is suitable for 21st century worship and mission. and she specialised in restoring and repurposing church He will help you to translate your vision into a plan buildings. By prayerfully overseeing the smooth running Get in touch with Kim for: SDF funding, finance, legal, Get in touch with Modupe for: Information about CRT for the physical space, navigate planning permission of CRT, she is dedicated to all aspects: from the pastoral systems and operations. Comms. and/or get a Faculty, draft a budget estimate, appoint relationships with the planting curates, ensuring that we contractors to do the work and provide you with project secure funding, to fostering a healthy staff body, first- management support throughout any refurbishment or class CRT resources and ensuring that the vision is put construction works. into action. Due to her passion and leadership (and plenty of good coffee!), CRT is flourishing, and we are Get in touch with Andrew for: Anything buildings. planting more churches each year.

Get in touch with Sarah for: Any question you have about church planting whether it be your vision, strategy, team recruitment, leadership development or 100-day plan. She is keen to support you in any spiritual, pastoral or practical way.

Erin Winfield Maddie Kalta Mark Elsdon-Dew

Director of Philanthropy Grants & Reporting Manager Director of Planting Erin oversees and drives the fundraising strategy for Maddie’s role is to help develop and execute the Mark works with Jeremy in the initial phase of any CRT to ensure funding remains an enabler rather than fundraising strategy of CRT. Maddie’s day-to-day partnership with a diocese – seeking to establish a a constraint to the ministry. Like most ministries, CRT is activity varies from looking after the pipeline of existing partnership with a bishop, the choice of a building and entirely reliant on the generous support of men and and potential donors, managing the database, research the appointment of a leader. He has responsibility for The women who give sacrificially to see churches planted, and organising donor events. A large part of her role the ‘clergy pipeline’. With his background in journalism, buildings restored, communities flourishing and lives is writing grant funding applications, donor reports and Mark oversees press relations on behalf of the HTB transformed. We are hugely grateful for our CRT donors funding proposals. Group. CRT Team and Erin works closely with them to ensure they know the vital part they play and what their gifts are making Get in touch with Maddie for: Anything to do with Get in touch with Mark for: Anything involving bishops, possible. Erin loves her job and counts it a huge privilege Fundraising, grant writing, report writing and research. the clergy pipeline or the initial stages of a church plant. to raise money for CRT and all of the extraordinary work happening across the growing Network of churches.

Get in touch with Erin for: Questions about raising money in your context to fuel your vision.

16 17 Annie Magee Veronika Morozova Jeremy Jennings Pippa Hawkins

LYN - Senior Operations & Project Manager Operations and Project Manager CRT Special Projects Network and Events Manager Annie joined CRT in January 2019, and is now the Veronika works in the CRT operations and project team Jeremy joined the staff of HTB in 1985 and served as Pippa’s role exists to support the HTB Network of 85 Senior Operations and Project Manager for Love Your alongside Kim and Annie. She works closely with Kim Pastoral Director, Director of Prayer and Director of churches working closely alongside Archie Coates Neighbour. She works closely with Tom Jackson to ensure on financial management, supporting CRT’s financial Finance during his time on the staff. He retired in 2010 (Head of the Network). Pippa is responsible for being the that the vision of Love Your Neighbour is delivered. processes and those related to church planting. This but rejoined the staff in 2015 in a part-time role and point person between HTB/CRT & the Network Church This means innovating and developing the Love Your includes invoice processing and church grants. Veronika now concentrates on leading the church’s weekly 7AM Leaders and providing support for the key Network Neighbour model, as we scale up, and liaising with a also works with the team across all operational stages Prayer Meeting and assisting with its church planting Events (Leadership Conference, Focus, the Network variety of external partners including government and of church planting. She is involved in data collection, activities through CRT. Within CRT, Jeremy gives vital Retreats & Assemble Network Day). She also oversees other charities and businesses. tracking and measuring the social impact of the advice on property acquisition and, together with Mark coordinating the Accelerator Programme which consists church plants across the network. Since the beginning Elsdon-Dew, develops relationships with the diocese of organising the speakers, working on the handbook, Get in touch with Annie for: Anything related to the LYN of COVID-19 Veronika has been closely involved in which are crucial for the church plant, liaising with the making sure that the year runs smoothly, and the planting National campaign. supporting the local and national LoveYourNeighbour Bishops and Diocese. On top of this, Jeremy is the prayer curates are fully equipped for their upcoming church Campaign. force behind CRT and is committed to praying for both plant. She is also one of the points of contact with the new and existing church plants as well as praying into bishops, ensuring that our relationships are flourishing Get in touch with Veronika for: Operations and data. those plants that don’t yet exist! with them.

Get touch with Jeremy for: Advice on property Get in touch with Pippa for: Anything to do with the HTB acquisition, relationship with the dioceses and prayer. Network, the Accelerator Programme, the Online Toolkit, advice about Bishops.

Louise Burns Victoria Fulton Sarah Wynter

Network Support EA to CEO Publications Editor Louise’s role is to work with Pippa to provide the best As EA to Sarah, Victoria is responsible for providing Sarah works on putting together the CRT Magazine - a support to the HTB Network of churches. Louise helps administrative assistance to Sarah and the CRT team. collection of news, testimonies and highlights from across to organise and run the key Network events that run She is exceptionally organised and always one step the HTB Network. One of her favourite parts of the role throughout the year (LC, Focus, Retreats, Assemble etc), ahead of the game. However, Victoria does more than is speaking to Network Churches and being able to support leaders and teams through the Accelerator just answer the phone, arrange meetings and organise celebrate and share their stories of changed lives and Programme and share key information with churches the calendar. She acts as a gatekeeper of CRT and is the social transformation going on as a result of the work through the Network comms. Louise is also a point of always willing to point people in the right direction. She of the church. contact for churches and teams should they need any is also a fantastic link between CRT and HTB... feel free information or help during the year. to ask her any questions. Get in touch with Sarah for: Stories and anything Magazine related. Get in touch with Louise for: Anything to do with the HTB Get in touch with Victoria for: Administration, Sarah Network. Jackson or general enquiries.

18 19 Patrons Trustees

Revd Nicky Gumbel Sir Paul Marshall is Vicar of Holy Trinity Brompton (HTB), a Church of England church is the Chairman and CIO of Marshall Wace, a $30bn hedge fund. in central London with 10 Sunday services on four sites with a regular He is also the Chairman of Ark Schools, a chain of 40 academies attendance of over 3,700 people – most aged between 18 and and founder of the Education Policy Institute and of the Marshall 35. Nicky Gumbel has written several best-selling books, including Institute for Philanthropy and Social Entrepreneurship. Paul is ‘Questions of Life’ - the Alpha course in book form – which has sold married to Sabina and they have been worshipping at HTB since more than a million copies worldwide. Nicky Gumbel is married 1997. They have two children. to Pippa. Together they write a daily Bible commentary called the ‘Bible in One Year’ which has over 1 million global subscribers. They live in central London and have three children. Nichola Pease (Odey) is a Non Exec Director of Schroders PLC with over 35 years of Ade Adebajo experience in the asset management and stock broking industries. is an investment banker with over 20 years’ experience across She is also the Chair of the Investment 2020 Apprenticeship global institutions including Standard Chartered, Citigroup and scheme. UBS. Much of his career has been emerging market focused, advising sovereign and corporate clients on accessing capital markets. He is a qualified accountant who started his career as a Tricia Neill graduate trainee at Price Waterhouse, London, prior to brief stints is the President of CRT and Alpha International. She has led the within fund management and the energy industry. He is also an Alpha team from modest beginnings at HTB to a global organisation Associate of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment and that has served millions of people in over 160 countries from Bishop Bishop a member of the Association of Corporate Treasurers. Ade has Richard Chartres Karowei been a regular worshipper at Holy Trinity Brompton (HTB) for many churches of all major Christian denominations. She speaks at many years and featured in the global Alpha poster campaign in 2001. leadership and church conferences throughout the year. Tricia is He is a member of HTB’s parochial church council (PCC), current the author of “From Vision to Action”, a practical guide for turning secretary to the Chelsea Deanery Synod, and an elected member vision into reality. of the London Diocesan Synod.

Harry Lawson-Johnston Archie Coates is a Partner of LJ Partnership, responsible for heading up strategy The Rt Revd and Rt Hon Lord Chartres KCVO is The Rt Revd Dr Woyin Karowei Dorgu became planted and leads St Peter’s Brighton. He studied Theology at and business development. Prior to setting up LJ, he served as Dean of the Chapels Royal. He was Bishop of the 13th Bishop of Woolwich in March 2017. Oxford University and was Associate Vicar at HTB before going Managing Director of Guggenheim Partners, a global investment to Brighton in 2009 to pioneer the work there – and subsequently London from 1995 to 2017. Bishop Richard is Bishop Karowei is married to Mosun and they and advisory firm. Harry sits on the Development Board of the the church planting from St Peter’s itself, within Brighton and Institute for Statecraft and the advisory council of Resurgo Ventures married to Caroline and has four children. have an adult son, Timi, who is married to Ife. also Hastings, Portsmouth and Crawley. In 2015 he became an Honorary Canon at Chichester Cathedral. Archie is married to Sam and on the Advisory Boards of the Global Partnership of Family and they have four children. Offices, Humus Capital and HWSC, a US based direct investing platform. He is passionate about philanthropy and is an active anti- slavery supporter. Angus Winther has spent 27 years working in investment banking. He co-founded Lexicon Partners, a London-based firm in 2000 which was acquired Toby Baxendale by Evercore in 2011. He served as a senior advisor at Evercore until is an Entrepreneur, Investor, Ironman Triathlete, former Magistrate, October 2016. He is a church warden of HTB, deputy chair of the published Economist, Author, Philanthropist, Legatum Institute CRT, a trustee of St Paul’s Theological Centre and chair of trustees Executive Trustee, Centre for Entrepreneurs Advisor and Family of WeSeeHope. Angus is married to Emma and they have three Man. He built and sold a successful fish catering and wholesale children. business that turned over in excess of £100 million per year in 2010. Now he is involved with investing and supporting other Jeremy Herrmann entrepreneurs. Toby is married to Catherine and they have three is the founder and CEO of Ferox Capital, a fund management children. company. He has a variety of philanthropic interests which tend to be focused on environmental issues reflecting his passion for the countryside.

20 21 Network & Events

22 23 The HTB Church Network Revd Archie & Sam Coates

HTB’s strategy for church planting has been in its DNA since the early 1980s. Head of Network Former Vicar John Collins and his curate Sandy Millar first heard the concept In 2008, the Bishop of Chichester invited HTB of church planting from the American church leader, John Wimber. They were to plant into St Peter’s Brighton, a landmark both quickly convinced that this strategy held real potential for the aid of church church known locally as the ‘cathedral of growth and expansion. Over 32 years, HTB has pioneered 39 church plants, Brighton.’ Rev. Archie Coates, former associate with 27 in London (1985-2008) by invitation of Lord Chartres, former Bishop vicar at HTB, became the new vicar of St Peter’s of London and Patron to CRT. 2009 saw the first plant outside of the London in October 2009, joined by c. fifty members Diocese to St Peter’s Brighton, led by Archie and Sam Coates. Over the past of HTB’s London congregation. By early 2017, eleven years a further many more plants have helped further developed and St Peter’s was running its 48th Alpha course, refine the City Centre Resource Church (CCRC) model. a homeless shelter every Saturday and had a worshipping community of c. 1,400. The HTB Network is a family that aims to support, encourage and resource all its network churches including CCRCs, first, second and third generation plants across the country. Each plant, like a child is unique, carrying characteristics from both parents. Like all families, each member has a vital role to play, to contribute and to learn from and support one another at different stages of development. The network aims to foster close relationships between the leaders and their teams, provide forums for ongoing training, resources and facilitate two annual gatherings at Focus and Leadership Conference, to share best practice and have fun! Paul Nelson

As a future leader of a HTB Network church, CRT HTB Network Worship Pastor is committed to providing you, your staff team and Paul is the Worship Pastor of St Peter’s Brighton, congregation ongoing support and would encourage HTB’s first church plant outside of London. you to maximise the four key Network opportunities: Paul and his wife Sarah joined Archie and Sam’s core team whilst at HTB and moved to 1. To attend (as senior leader) the retreat at De Vere Wokefield Estate Brighton on the original planting team in 2009. 2. To bring your leadership team to the Leadership Conference Paul now oversees Bright City, which is the 3. To bring your church to Focus worship movement of St Peter’s Brighton, with 4. To run Alpha regularly and to be an Alpha resource church a conviction that true worship prepares the 5. To express the DNA of church planting way for Jesus to change a city. He has also recently taken on a new role overseeing the development of the HTB Network Worship, Plant Visits with a particular passion to pastor, encourage As part of the Accelerator Programme we will be visiting St Nicholas Bristol and train worship leaders. in the first term. However, we would really encourage you to visit as many church plants as you can throughout the year to get a good sense about what God is doing across the UK. It will also help you shape your church plant. If you would like more information and to arrange a time when you can visit a church plant, please do contact Pippa Hawkins: [email protected]

24 25 Aim High Audacity Ask God to give you a vision so big that you can’t do it HTB without him.

Enjoy it together Values Unity What unites us is infinitely greater than what divides us.

Give it away Generosity You can give without loving but you cannot love without giving.

Bow the knee Humility It is not thinking less of yourself but thinking of yourself less.

Never give up Tenacity A river cuts through rock not by power but perseverance.

26 27 The HTB Network will assemble at Brompton Road on the 11 March 2021.

An inspiring day to resource and equip your teams.

There will be bespoke streams specialising in the areas of: Children, Curates, Operations, Students, Relationships, Worship, Youth and more.

Sign up at crtrust.org/assemble21

28 29 Friday 23rd July – Wednesday 28th July 2021

About Focus: Focus is a time for our church network to spend quality time together, to pitch in as a family, sharing food, receiving and praying for one another, supporting each other and our churches. Experience impactful teaching, Big Top worship, a programme for all, friendships for life and transformational encounter with God. For more details visit: focus.htb.org

Church Commissioning: Throughout the week in the evening sessions we will be the commissioning at least one of the church plants. All your team will be invited up on stage where Nicky (and maybe a Bishop!) will hear about your upcoming plant, pray for you and commission you. This is always a highlight of Focus and a momentous occasion for the church planter; one which not only joins you to the HTB Family of churches but is an amazing opportunity for all at Focus to hear about your adventure and support you in the coming months.

Somerley Estate, Ringwood

30 31 Leadership Conference 2021

Monday 3rd May – Tuesday 4th May

About Leadership Conference: The Leadership Conference unites people from every corner of the world for two days of world class speakers, worship and encouragement. It is an opportunity to enhance your expertise, cultivate connections and be part of God-breathed moments with creative thinkers, church builders, influencers and entrepreneurs. For more details, visit: www.leadershipconference.org.uk

Royal Albert Hall, London

32 33 Jonny and Amy Hughes Jonny Nottingham Church, Trinity 2016 Rich and Lizzie Atkinson Nottingham St Margaret’s, 2018 Jim and Vicky Prestwood Lincoln St Swithin’s, 2014 and Liz Burston Steve Crawley St John’s, 2017 Ian and Jo Dyble Norwich St Thomas, 2013 Larkin Simon and Sarah Hastings Holy Trinity, 2014 and Sam Coates Archie Brighton St Peter’s, 2009 Whitehawk St Cuthman’s, 2013 Alex and Liz Wood Alex Portsmouth Harbour Church, 2016 Visit a Church Plant Visit a Church Janie and James Cronin Rochdale Nelson Street, 2020 Tim and Debbie Matthews Bournemouth Love Church, 2014 Rich and Louise Grant Gateshead St George’s, 2016 Olly and Ali Ryder St Matthias, Plymouth 2016 Phil and Anna Mann Derby St Werburgh’s, 2017 Sam and Hannah Haigh Preston Minster, Preston 2019 Ed and Jess Hodges and Jess Ed Exeter St Matthew’s, 2019 Andy and Rachel Kitchen Andy and Rachel Wrexham Hope Street, 2020 Ryan and Ellie Forey Ryan Cardiff Church, Citizen 2020 Toby and Gill Flint Toby Bristol St Nicholas, 2018 Tim and Rachel Hughes Tim and Rachel Birmingham Gas Street, 2015 Phil and Rachel Atkinson Phil and Rachel St Marks, Coventry 2017 Alex and Laura Rayment and Laura Alex Lane St Barnabas Penny Liverpool 2020 Joel and Cath Sales Swindon Pattern Church, 2018 Chris and Nai Bradish St Mary’s, Andover 2018 Jon and Hannah Finch Saint Mary’s, Southampton 2018

34 35 HTB College

HTB college offers a unique training experience for those who want to play their part in the evangelisation of the nation, the revitalisation of the church and the transformation of society. It is a year-long programme designed for individuals aged 18-25, who want to wholeheartedly pursue Jesus, up-skill in ministry leadership and join a movement that’s changing a nation!

Year Outline:

HTB College Students will be taught various modules including:

• An Introduction to Theology • Leadership Development • Personal effectiveness and Productivity • Ministry of the Holy Spirit • Communication and Preaching

Offering an incredible opportunity to take up ministry electives allows our students to be placed in a ministry area according to their passion and calling. Developing their skills and experience in ministries such as; Worship, Youth, Students, Kids, Creativity, Social Transformation and Operations.

Becoming part of your team?

After the one-year training, some of the HTB College students will be wanting to partake in ministry opportunities at your churches to further extend their passions, skills and join your adventure. We would highly recommend getting in touch with Rachael Wooldridge, HTB College Pastor, to discuss if there are any students looking for jobs or opportunities and would like to join you on your mission and church plant.

“HTB College has been the most transforming year of my life. It’s like my eyes have been opened to the works of the Holy Spirit and I can’t ever imagine a life before this.”

Rebekah Rivas | Class of 2019

36 37 Clergy Marriage Retreat

A weekend to invest in your marriage.

The Clergy Marriage Retreat takes place from Friday 20th – Sunday 22nd November 2020 at Wiston House in West Sussex, a beautiful, tranquil setting where couples can enjoy the comfortable surroundings, delicious food and space to relax.

First and foremost, the weekend will provide an opportunity for you to invest in your own marriage. There will be time to spend alone together as a couple. The sessions are designed to raise important and helpful conversations between you and are tailored to address the typical pressures on clergy marriages. Discussions as a couple will always be private.

Cost The Goring family are very generously hosting and sponsoring three quarters of the normal costs of a weekend at Wiston House. As a result we are able to offer the retreat at £390 per couple to cover accommodation and meals.

Our suggestion is that, if possible, the cost should be split three ways between the clergy couple, the Diocese (through the CME grant where allowed) and the parish, so that each is making an investment in the ongoing health of clergy marriages.

HTB will cover additional costs including resources, drinks and team costs.

38 39 Love Your

Neighbour Love Your Neighbour operates strategically across three distinct tiers of society:

Love Your Neighbour (LYN) is a nationally scaled, city- (a) Hyper-Local Presence -There are over centred and locally tailored response of churches and 40,000 active churches in the UK with other civil society partners to the social challenges caused the majority embedded on local estates by COVID-19. It exists to transform the on-the-ground or in other micro communities. They form availability of food, friendship, advice and training to an amalgam of local residents aspiring to vulnerable and isolated people such as the shielding, love their neighbour. Through their wider unemployed, indebted, homeless and other groups who relationships with friends, neighbours, school are falling between the cracks in existing provision. gate contacts, work colleagues and others; they can engage a far greater number of Starting with an emergency pop-up food bank in London in late local volunteers and mobilise them in a way March 2020, LYN has scaled to become a national alliance centrally coordinated programmes can’t. representing 100s of vibrant churches working in partnership with other organisations such as foodbanks, charities, shelters, (b) City-Wide Partnerships - At the centre of hospitals, businesses and local councils. It is currently clustered the LYN model is the formation of dynamic around 32 city-centre food-bank hubs – ranging from cross-city partnerships between city centre Gateshead to Liverpool, Bradford to Birmingham, Preston to food hubs and the local churches and Derby and Plymouth to Brighton. LYN is a collaboration under other organisations on the frontline of their the Church Revitalisation Trust with the HTB Network, Resurgo communities. In this way, the benefits of Trust and many other churches in the UK. It is headed up by a centralised food and resource hub are Tom and Sarah Jackson. combined with a truly local and personal reach into estates and communities. As well What is the Love Your Neighbour model? as distributing emergency food, they also provide a coordinated web of friendship, LYN’s model is to establish central emergency food bank hubs advice and training in areas such as debt in key city centre locations across the UK to resource a web of advice, housing support and employment other more localised civil society organisations. Each hub will training so as to ensure a hand-up as well gather and resource a constellation of satellite churches and as a hand-out. other civil society organisations, businesses and agencies into highly effective cross-city partnerships. (c) National Structure - The LYN network of churches includes many of the fastest For more information, please contact Annie Magee: growing and most entrepreneurial city- [email protected] centre churches in the UK. Growing originally out of the HTB Network of 100 www.loveyourneighbour.uk city and town centre plants and the Alpha network of 6,000 churches across the UK; it has grown to include many other church networks and movements. Through LYN the unique reach and diversity of these different churches are joining together with one voice and structure to work effectively with Government, the Food Industry and other national partners.

40 41 Social Transformation

Our Caring for Ex-Offenders Team connects The HTB Shelter is a multi- service drop-in that Crosslight Advice is a community-focused Kids Matter aims to bring about sustainable people leaving prison to a mentor and exists to see systemic homelessness ended charity which works with local churches to change in family life in hard-to-reach supportive church community in London. Our in our greater community. We believe that alleviate poverty caused by problem debt communities by equipping churches to vision is to reduce reoffending by reintegrating homelessness is not only distinguished by the and lack of financial capability. Crosslight was empower parents with the skills to build strong people into society though the local church. absence of a brick and mortar house, but by born out of the ministry of the local church and relationships with their children. Our vision The mentor and mentee meet weekly to focus the absence of the community and identity our calling is to work in partnership with local is to equip the church to empower parents on resettlement and planning for the future, that is developed within a home environment. churches to meet individuals at their point of and caregivers facing adversity to develop and the church team offers friendship, places to Our staff and volunteers meet practical needs need and help them through to full restoration confidence and parenting skills necessary for connect in with the community and support with through connecting guests with our in-house however long that takes. Our clients are some well-functioning family life. practical needs, such as offering debt advice, caseworks, addictions specialists and debt of the neediest and most vulnerable in our helping someone claim their benefits, helping advisors. We also offer a hot meal, bible study, communities and they are characterised by low Kids Matter partners with local churches and them clean their flat, or finding somewhere clothing store, haircutting station, art table, income, long-term physical or mental health Christian charities with a family-oriented they could get free driving lessons. We walk computer station and games area. problems, and/or complex social and family mission, as well as organisations that share alongside people as they seek to transform issues. a vision for reaching vulnerable parents and their lives. Curates are welcome to join us at the Shelter caregivers where they are. They run a 6-week, on Wednesdays and Fridays. They would have With the support and participation of our evidence-based programme where trained Curates are welcome to attend CFEO’s one- the opportunity to actively engage in enriching church partners we offer face-to-face debt facilitators lead groups which are coordinated day training which covers the model of CFEO conversation with guests, assist with the Shelter advice, money education through our Money by community links with pre-existing community and how it works in practice, safeguarding, Bible Study and (if female) help host our Course programme, practical assistance and relationships. maintaining good boundaries and mentoring. Women’s-only event. ongoing support to anyone who needs it. Other opportunities include offering pastoral Curates are more than welcome to experience or practical support as a befriender to one of Please contact [email protected] to get involved Please contact www.crosslightadvice.org for a taster session before choosing to get involved our mentees. or for more information. more information. with one of the 6-week programmes.

Please contact [email protected] Please visit www.kidsmatter.org.uk for more for more information. information.

42 43 Social Transformation

Safehaven is a social transformation enterprise The Spear Programme helps young people started at St. Peter’s Brighton out of a heart facing disadvantage into work or education. of compassion for their community and an RESURGO know that young people have huge expression of their love for the city. potential; SPEAR are helping to change what they believe about themselves by equipping Safehaven Saturday them with confidence, motivation and the Every Saturday St. Peter’s open their doors vital skills they need to succeed in long-term to anyone who wants a free meal and a safe employment. place to come. They try to get the whole church The Spear programme is for 16-to-24-year- helping out, through recruiting a big team, olds from disadvantaged backgrounds not in getting the Groups to help once a term, and education, employment or training (NEET). making it really easy for anyone to help out. They need help to kick start their career and Together, they share a meal and then have an find long-term employment. informal service with worship, communion, and ministry. It is about welcoming people into the The programme involves: church, introducing people to Jesus – a first • Coaching to overcome challenging step into the life of the church for guests, and attitudes and behaviours a first step into engaging with the marginalised • Practical training such as writing a good for the St. Peter’s team. CV and mock interview practice • A year of support for each candidate to Safehaven also run: help them find a job and succeed in work • Safehaven Men and Women • Safehaven Mother and Baby SPEAR have a strong track record of achieving • The Night Shelter significant results: over three quarters of those who complete the Spear programme get into For more information, please visit: work or further training and are still there a stpetersbrighton.org/safehaven year later.

For more information, please visit: resurgo.org.uk/spear-programme/the-spear- programme/

44 45 Autumn Chapters Term & Sessions

46 47 Notes & Sketches Introduction and Chapter 1 Overview Session 1

Aim:

• To set the expectations of the year • To introduce the CRT team and get to know one another

Sarah Jackson Content:

See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not Sarah is the CEO of CRT, the Church perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams Revitalisation Trust, which supports the in the wasteland. Isaiah 43 vs 19 planting of city centre resource churches across the UK. Prior to CRT, Sarah was HTB The purpose of this first session is to look ahead and set the Group Chief of Staff. Since joining HTB in expectations of the year. Sarah will introduce the CRT team – 1984, Sarah has been involved in strategic do refer to the ‘Who’s Who’ section in the AP Handbook – as church leadership positions including as well as talk you through the key books for the year and go over Director of Operations and Executive Pastor the AP Handbook. at St Paul’s Hammersmith where she was part of the core planting team in 2000 There will also be time in the morning for you to get to know and oversaw a six-million-pound extension one another as you will be journeying together in the year. This project and external advertising campaign. session is designed so the CRT team can get to know you and Sarah was also Founding Director of a understand how they can best support you throughout the year. successful Property and Design Company Tasks & Action Points Consequently, you will be asked to feedback about the areas working in the UK and Europe. you would like to develop both personally and specifically for your church plant.

Lastly, there will be time to ask questions – no question is a silly question!

Recommended Reading The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs by John C Maxwell

48 49 Notes & Sketches The Theology of Chapter 1 Church Planting Session 2

Aim:

• To understand why we are doing what we are doing • To look at the biblical premise for church planting • To inspire and encourage the church planters in their first session Ian Dyble • To have time for Q&A

In 2013 Ian moved, with his wife Jo, from his curacy at HTB to be the vicar of St Thomas Content: Norwich (STN), the second ‘HTB plant’ In this session we will look together at what the scriptures tell outside London. In the last 7 years STN has us about the Church and how it developed in the first century. taken on two additional sites, bought a pub We’ll also consider the relevance of that for us as church and formed ‘missional partnerships’ with planters today - what does the bible actually say about what two other nearby parishes. The team at STN we should be spending our time doing and why? And is what are also very involved in a diocesan church we hope to achieve what God is hoping for, too? planting and revitalisation programme which has recently received funding from the church commissioners.

Ian is passionate about discipleship and sheep (in a connected way), loves spending Tasks & Action Points time in North Norfolk, with his family and his dog Orla and is an eternally optimistic supporter of Ipswich Town Football Club.

Recommended Reading Paul’s Missionary Methods or Ours? by Roland Allen

50 51 Best Approach to Notes & Sketches Chapter 2 the Accelerator Session 1 Programme

Aim:

• To be able to talk through the strategies on how best to approach the AP year • To give ‘Top Tips’ and stories from the first year of the church plant to Preston Sam Haigh • To allow time for Q&A Sam was born in Keighley, West Yorkshire and prior to ordination was a bus mechanic. Content: He became a Christian in 2004 aged 18 and sensed a call to ordination. Sam This session will look at a recent example and hear stories and trained at Ridley Hall in Cambridge, served learning from Sam Haigh who, in September 2019 along with a curacy in Bedfordshire before taking up his wife Hannah and a small team, planted Preston Minster. a post as an Associate Vicar in Finsbury Sam will cover a range of topics from the importance of failure, Park as part of the HTB network. Sam spent the building of faith, the need for resilience and the absolute three years there before heading to HTB to joy of church planting. In particular, we will look at how to stay embark upon the Accelerator Programme healthy in the midst of madness and the importance of creating and to prepare to plant into Preston. Sam and nurturing culture. is married to Hannah and they have five children. Tasks & Action Points

Recommended Reading Planting Churches, Changing Communities by David Stroud

52 53 Notes & Sketches Chapter 2 SDF, Buildings and Session 2 & 3 Finance

Aim: Andrew Parsons • To understand the key areas Building Projects when doing a church plant Andrew joined the CRT team in May 2017 • To learn about what SDF is and how to apply as the Building Project Manager and is • To have time for Q&A responsible for ‘all things buildings’. This can include: identifying suitable buildings, Content: instructing structural and valuation surveys, assessing the costs of refurbishment, drafting In the first session, Andrew will be doing a brief walk through provisional budgets, instructing architects some of the key areas of building projects that you will be likely and managing the tender process, navigate to encounter in your early days and first few years as you take planning / Faculty, etc, through to delivery on the church plant. He will look specifically at the faculty of the completed project – a building fit for system and the main challenges you will face with a building 21st century worship and mission. project. He will talk you through the process of applying for funding and how this happens, with the CRT to support you along the way. Lastly, he will review come of the projects which have happened so far and what the planting curates have learnt through the process.

In the second session, Kim will talk through some of the key areas of Finance that you will likely encounter in your early Tasks & Action Points days and first few years as you take on the church plant. In Kim Vaudrey addition he will take you through the process of applying for funding and how this happens, with the CRT to support you along the way. Kim joined CRT in July 2017 as Director of Operations and is responsible for There will be time for Q&A at the end of both sessions. CRT’s finances, operations and project delivery. Having started his career in financial services, Kim spent several years in operations in the hedge fund industry before joining HTB in 2014. He spent time in the Finance and Giving teams before his current role as COO with CRT.

Recommended Reading Buildings for Mission by Nigel Walter and Andrew Mottram 54 55 Notes & Sketches Chapter 2 The Common Fund Session 4

Aim:

• To understand how the Common Fund works across the UK • To know how this will apply specifically to each church plant Jeremy Jennings

Content: Jeremy joined the staff of HTB in 1985 and served as Pastoral Director, Director All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed of Prayer and Director of Finance during that any of their possessions was their own, but they shared his time on the staff. He retired in 2010 but everything they had. Acts 4 vs 32 rejoined the staff in 2015 in a part-time role and now concentrates on leading the Based on this session, Jeremy will say what the Common Fund church’s weekly 7AM Prayer Meeting and is: the recovery of costs, contribution and how the common fund assisting with its church planting activities is not a tax! He will then go on to talk about the importance of through CRT. He has written a book on transparency – the need to be comprehensible, the need to corporate prayer called ‘The Church on its be defensible and the need to be fair – and the importance of Knees’, led a number of prayer conferences clarity in order to establish the right formula and understand and gives talks on the subject. His passion the net contribution after 5 years. It is important that we, as the is to see corporate prayer established in the church, are generous and take a long-term view. Lastly, Jeremy life of as many local churches as possible. Tasks & Action Points will touch on the importance of the Church Treasurer, Church His background is finance and he ran the Wardens and the vital officers in the church. church’s finances for a number of years. He is married to Milly and they have four children.

Recommended Reading Practical Church Management by James Behrens

56 57 Vision to Action: Notes & Sketches Operational and Chapter 3 Organisational Session 1 Leadership

Aim:

• To provide practical guidance on the right leadership structure • To understand how to keep the vision going in the long run Tricia Neill

Tricia Neill is President of Alpha International Content: and of the Church Revitalisation Trust (CRT). She joined HTB from News International, Vision to Action focuses on taking visionary ideas through to where she headed up News International delivery with strong operational and organisational leadership Exhibitions, in 1994. Tricia sits on the Board - it that is not just about seeing the vision but implementing of Alpha International, as well as being the vision. By surrounding yourself with the right people and on the boards of numerous Alpha offices leading your team from the front at every occasion, your worldwide. She is also a trustee of CRT. team will better understand the vision and encourage their She speaks at many leadership and church enthusiasm for it. conferences throughout the year and around the world. Tricia is the author of “From Vision to Action”, a practical “how to” guide for turning vision into reality and managing church growth. Tasks & Action Points

Recommended Reading From Vision to Action by Tricia Neill

58 59 Notes & Sketches Building the Chapter 3 Dream Team Session 2

Aim:

• To understand how to recruit the best people • To learn how to identify talent • To learn how to nurture the team and release giftings

Rebecca Stewart Content: Rebecca started her career in banking and Drawing from her years of experience, Rebecca will share her consulting, with HSBC and then Ernst & top tips on how to recruit an exceptional staff team based on Young. She moved into executive search in the four Cs: Character, Competence, Calling and Character! 1999 and in 2001 was appointed head of Rebecca will also talk about how to identify talent, whether the the Finance practice for the London office of beginning embers in someone new in your congregation to the Heidrick & Struggles, recruiting CFOs across well experienced in their field. In addition, Rebecca will cover a wide range of sectors. In 2003 Rebecca how to best care for your team in order to nurture them and moved into the non-profit sector and joined release their giftings. All of this will contribute towards forming Alpha International as Head of Alpha UK. the best ‘dream team’ that you could ask for! Over the following 12 years Alpha grew significantly and Rebecca served as Chief Operating Officer and Chief of Staff before being appointed as Group Chief Executive Tasks & Action Points of the HTB Group. Rebecca founded Goldstar Partners in 2015.

Recommended Reading Courageous Leadership by Bill Hybels

60 61 Notes & Sketches Agile Chapter 3 Teams Session 3

Aim:

• To understand what it is to have an agile team • To learn how to place and use your staff within the structure • To discuss the advantages of a flexible team and why this Al Gordon is needed in our church staff culture • To learn about changing times, changing teams and the potential pitfalls Al Gordon leads Hackney Church, a • To have a Q&A time thriving church on a mission to bring hope to the heart of East London. He is married Content: to Olivia, an architect, and they have three children. Al is a trustee of Alpha International In this seminar we will look at what makes teams agile - what and the charity: Water. the structure offers to growing church staff teams and how it enables growth, flexibility and efficiency in carrying out a vision in rapidly changing times in a diverse urban context.

Tasks & Action Points

Recommended Reading Canoeing the Mountains by Tod Bolsinger

62 63 HR: PDR, Hiring, Firing Notes & Sketches Chapter 4 and Performance Session 1 Management

Aim:

• To understand the process of hiring and firing • To know the most appropriate model to fire someone • To have a Q&A time Fi Sellers Content: Fi has been Director of People for HTB In this essential and full session, Fi will explore the best ways Group since early October 2018. Prior to build your initial team when moving to your church plant, to that Fi co-owned and was MD of a including: Interview skills and legal “do’s and don’ts”; assessing specialist HR consulting and executive what your initial team should look like; assessing what your search firm. Her earlier HR career was with team may need to look like in 2 years’ time and 5 years’ time, Marks and Spencer Plc, both in Head Office the merits of different contract types e.g. fixed term, permanent and various stores around the UK. Fi also etc and how to manage candidate expectations in a church served as a member of the leadership team plant/start-up situation. for 1 year and a PCC member for 3 years at St James’ Church in Gerrard’s Cross, She will go on to explore how to manage your team for Buckinghamshire where she lives with her optimal performance and looking at best practice and the husband and two teenage daughters and legal requirements for managing team members who are under she continues to support a number of local performing. She will give you enough basic understanding of charities as a Trustee and volunteer. Tasks & Action Points employment law to ensure you stay compliant regarding the following:

• Protected characteristics • Reasonable adjustments • Redundancy • Maternity, paternity and adoption leave • Mental health and safeguarding issues • Duty of care

Recommended Reading 5 Habits of a Dysfunctional Team by Patrick Lencioni

64 65 Notes & Sketches Building Healthy Chapter 4 Team Culture Session 2

Aim:

• Introduction about St Werburgh’s and yourself • Top Tips from the church plant • To learn how to have difficult staff discussions • To learn how to establish a healthy team culture when Phil Mann planting • To understand how to keep good relationships with your leadership team Phil Mann is the Lead Minister of St • To have a short Q&A Werburgh’s Derby which was planted out of HTB in September 2017. St Werburgh’s was sold off as a church over 30 years ago and Content: in the meantime had been a marketplace, a Chinese restaurant and then a derelict “As goes the team, goes the church.” Phil has learnt that the building. Phil took a team of 11 adults and saying ‘culture eats strategy for breakfast’ is so true. 7 kids to Derby to re-open St Werburgh’s. Phil started in ministry almost 20 years ago This session will explore what it means to build a healthy as Youth Worker at St Saviour’s Guildford, staff culture and what it looks like when it goes wrong. We where he went on to become Youth Pastor, will think about how to gather a team, how to lead the team Ordinand and then Curate before moving that is emotionally engaged and feels like family. We will also to St James Gerrards Cross to become think about when things go wrong and how to try and get Associate Rector. Phil then spent one year at Tasks & Action Points things back on track, including how to have some very difficult HTB on the pilot to the Accelerator Program conversations. before being commissioned out to the midlands to plant St Werburgh’s.

Recommended Reading Brian Houston Podcast: What makes a strong leader strong

bchleadershippodcast.libsyn.com/ leadership-vault-what-makes-a-strong- leader-strong-part-1 66 67 Chapter 4 Notes & Sketches How to run effective Session 3 operations

Aim: Penny Millar

• To understand the key components of effective operations Penny started her career in the legal world • To learn how to manage operations with a small but as a Legal Executive but after worshipping growing congregation at HTB for a year in her mid-twenties, she felt a strong call from God to work there. She ran the operations of HTB, the parish Content: church, at a time when the staff team grew from 40 to 240 and was involved in many What is your immediate reaction when you hear the word reorganisations during that time! ‘Operations’? Scrap that and expect to be challenged, After a career break to raise her 3 children, envisioned and dare I say, excited (!) during this interactive she has spent the last 9 years working at session. St John’s Hampton Wick, a church plant A well-run church is unstoppable and can transform the area it from HTB. She was the first staff member is in. It is very easy to overlook the nuts and bolts and only focus there and was tasked with getting all the on the ministry but when ministry and operations combine, and operations processes up and running and each understands and respects the other, GREAT things can built the staff team to the 18 that are currently be achieved. The church is in the people business and looking working there. after and connecting with people requires both spiritual and physical attention. If we are just concerned about the seats the people are sitting on, we’ve overlooked the spiritual needs … if we are simply concentrating on the sermon we are giving, we have overlooked whether the people are able to listen comfortably to the sermon! Tasks & Action Points • Action without Vision is only passing time • Vision without Action is merely day dreaming Sarah Jackson • But Vision with action can change the world Sarah is the CEO of CRT, the Church This session will cover 7 key areas: HR & Recruitment, Finance, Revitalisation Trust, which supports the Database, Website & Comms, Volunteer Management, planting of city centre resource churches Safeguarding & Site Management. across the UK. Prior to CRT, Sarah was HTB Prepare for growth - build great systems that will grow with you Group Chief of Staff. Since joining HTB in and recruit well - you won’t regret it! 1984, Sarah has been involved in strategic church leadership positions including as Director of Operations and Executive Pastor at St Paul’s Hammersmith where she was part of the core planting team in 2000 Recommended Reading and oversaw a six-million-pound extension Black Box Thinking: Marginal Gains and the Secrets of High project and external advertising campaign. Performance: The Surprising Truth About Success by Matthew Sarah was also Founding Director of a Syed successful Property and Design Company 68 working in the UK and Europe. 69 Notes & Sketches Mental and Emotional Chapter 5 Wellbeing Session 1 & 2

Aim:

• To understand how to remain robust and focused under significant pressure • To practice some psycho-education, self-appraisal and self-care tools Will Van Der Hart

Content: Rev Will Van Der Hart is the Pastoral Chaplain of HTB and a director of The Leaders involved in Church Planting and regeneration are faced Mind and Soul Foundation. He has been an with various challenges; these include forming completely new Anglican Vicar in London for 15 years. Will teams, forging confidence and partnerships within a locality, is the author of a number of books including, casting new vision and often establishing practical systems and The Worry Book, The Perfectionism Book processes at the same time. The combined impact of these and and The Guilt book. He is a board member other stressors can have a detrimental impact upon a leader’s of Mercy UK and on the Advisory Board mental and emotional health. This is why undertaking some of TLG. Will’s new book, ‘The Power of resilience training in advance of planting is beneficial for all Belonging’, was released in February. Will leaders. is married to Lucinda and they have three young children. One study suggested that 93% of leaders who underwent resilience training felt better equipped to deal with the Tasks & Action Points pressure and stressors in their workplace. Emotional health preparation through the Accelerator Programme involves some simple psycho-education, self-appraisal tools and self- care approaches. It provides a basic framework through which planting leaders can remain robust and focused in the face of significant pressure.

Recommended Reading Refuel by Kate Middleton

70 71 Top tips from planting Saint Mary’s and Notes & Sketches Chapter 5 setting healthy Session 3 boundaries for long term ministry

Aim:

• To learn from the top tips at Saint Mary’s, Southampton • To understand what a healthy boundary is • To set healthy boundaries that will last in long term ministry Jon Finch Content: Jon is married to Hannah with two small Jon will share from some of his learning and mistakes from the children and together they lead Saint Mary’s first couple of years of planting, how to thrive in the hectic and Southampton, a church plant from HTB in all-consuming nature of a start-up and how to grow in resilience 2018. They are passionate about spiritual, and develop a strong staff and church culture. In addition, Jon social and cultural renewal and believe that will talk about dealing with comparison and committing to church shouldn’t be contained in a building your calling as a leader. but it should flow out and permeate society by uplifting and bringing hope to everyone. Hannah is the editor-in-chief of the Leesman Review, a thought leadership magazine. Before getting into the vicar game, Jon worked as a session musician. Tasks & Action Points

Recommended Reading You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit by James A.K. Smith

72 73 Notes & Sketches Legal and Church Chapter 6 Governance Session 1

Aim:

• To gain a deeper understanding of the governance of the church from both an ecclesiastical and charity law perspective • To provide an overview of other legal issues that may Jon Shippen impact a plant

Jon Shippen is Director of Legal Services at Content: HTB and has been on staff for over 14 years. He has a master’s degree in Ecclesiastical Understanding the legality of planting a new church can seem Law and trained as a barrister. Jon has been all too daunting without the correct knowledge and guidance. involved in helping advise various church But getting to know the legal side of church planting as well as plants from HTB throughout the 14 years church governance is a vital aspect of preparing for launch. that he has been on staff. He also assisted This session will allow you to explore a complex topic, discuss the Diocese of London with securing its concerns and ask those head-scratching questions that you first £1 million of funding from the Church may not have found your answer to just yet. This session will Commissioners Strategic Development also go into greater detail in the CRT Toolkit should you need Fund. further guidance once you and your team have planted. Jon met his wife Sue at St Paul’s Shadwell, where she was part of the planting team sent from HTB. Jon, Sue and their three children Tasks & Action Points were also part of St Matthias Canning Town, an estate church plant in East London, before they moved to Northampton in 2018.

Recommended Reading Practical Church Management by James Behrens

74 75 Planning your finances Notes & Sketches Chapter 6 and budgets for Session 2 church planting

Aim:

• To help understand finance systems, budgeting, cash flow management, church accounts, 5 year forecast and church-specific finance Kim Vaudrey Content: Kim joined CRT in July 2017 as Director Finance is never the most popular or engaging topic but of Operations and is responsible for healthy finances and giving are critical to the success of any CRT’s finances, operations and project church plant, as leaders soon realise! This session will cover delivery. Having started his career in the basics of Finance & Budgets and the systems needed financial services, Kim spent several years specifically in a new church plant context. We will aim to cover in operations in the hedge fund industry simple budgeting and cash flow management, putting the right before joining HTB in 2014. He spent time systems in place, how to understand church accounts, doing in the Finance and Giving teams before his 5-yr forecast and church-specific finance. current role as COO with CRT.

Tasks & Action Points

76 77 Finance and Giving Notes & Sketches at St Swithins and Chapter 6 Top Tips for Church Session 3 Planting

Aim:

• To understand the importance of finance and giving • To learn from Jim’s ‘Top Tips’ about how to navigate grant funding, gift days and congregational giving and starting the year in deficit Jim Prestwood • To hear about Jim’s experience at St Swithin’s Lincoln

Jim and Vicky spent 12 years as a youth and Content: children’s workers in Kent before Jim trained for ordination at St. Mellitus. Jim was then We know God is a God of abundance and is the Lord who Curate for 3.5 years at Tollington parish in provides. We know he is a generous God who gave it all for Finsbury Park London and in October 2014, us. Church planting is an adventure into discovering more of moved with their 3 children and a team of God’s provision and an opportunity to re-imagine how we can 9 others to plant a church in Lincoln. The use our resources together to build the Kingdom of God. last 6 years have seen the church grow In this first part of the session, Jim will look at... and develop amidst constant challenges • How do you nurture a culture where people give freely not least discovering unpaid bills when they and generously? arrived, the church roof being unsafe and • How do you balance good stewardship with bold steps of not having a building to call home for the faith? last 3 years. They are about to plant locally • How do we make sure we resource the community and city and in summer 2021 send a planting team Tasks & Action Points and not just keep our ‘show on the road’? to Grimsby. • How do we keep going when the resources are tight or Jim is a proud Yorkshireman who loves appear to be drying up? nothing more than getting out into the hills with the family, gathering round a table The second part of the session will explore giving beyond the (with good food of course!) and loves norm and how to establish strong foundations spiritually. geeking out on books, blogs and podcasts about strategy and leadership.

Recommended Reading If God Will Provide, Why Do We Have To Ask For Money? by Rick Dunham

78 79 How to approach Notes & Sketches Chapter 6 Giving in a new Session 4 church plant

Aim:

• Explore what it means to create a culture of generosity • Discuss giving as a spiritual gift and how we can help release our community into it • Look at various methods of giving and which ones work Rebekah Weiler best • Create operational excellence for giving Rebekah is the Director of Stewardship at HTB. Prior to joining HTB, Rebekah was Content: Business Development Manager at global law firm, White & Case, overseeing client This session will look at how to create a culture of generosity in relationships, panel pitches, opportunity your congregation, how to honor giving as a spiritual gift rather spotting and new business in Europe, than treating it as a transactional or operational necessity, and The Middle East, and Africa, and former the different methods of funding for your ministry. We’ll also Business Development Director of Litigation look at some of the operational elements of giving, including Fund, Augusta Ventures. Rebekah is focused giving methods, gift aid, matched giving and other important on creating a culture of generosity at HTB considerations. and overseeing operational excellence for all methods of giving. Tasks & Action Points

80 81 Fundraising: why is it Notes & Sketches important and how Chapter 6 to do it in a church Session 5 context?

Aim:

• To understand why fundraising is important • To learn how to fundraise in a church context • To have a brief Q&A time Erin Winfield Content: Erin is an experienced fundraiser, This session will start with a broad view of the role money passionate about the role philanthropy plays in Christian ministry, then look at some of the dynamics and fund development can play in the surrounding fundraising, and hopefully challenge the common health and success of a mission-driven misconceptions and the pervasive reluctance to ask people to organisation. Erin is currently the Director of financially partner in a vision. Erin will look at some of the Philanthropy for CRT, responsible for driving practicalities of fundraising and aim to give you a vision for and overseeing the fundraising strategy to the vital role fundraising can play in fuelling your ministry. The raise a budget of roughly £3m. Prior to this session won’t presume to cover everything but will provide a Erin was the Global Development Director good introduction so that when the time comes to raise funds for Alpha, overseeing an international for a project, you have enough of an understanding of where team and responsible for raising the global to begin, what you need, and where to go for further support. budget of £13m+. Erin is American, married to Russell (Dean at St Mellitus College), and, together with their 2 kids, are long-standing Tasks & Action Points committed members of HTB.

Recommended Reading Keeping Faith in Fundraising by Peter Harris & Rod Wilson

82 83 Notes & Sketches Site Visit to Chapter 7 St Nicholas, Bristol Site Visit

Aim:

• To start to think about the importance of branding and media • To practically get involved with thinking and designing • To learn from Toby and his team about setting up Toby Flint St Nicholas • To learn how they have overcome barriers and ‘Top Tips’ on evangelising in the city Toby is the Senior Leader of St Nicholas • To have time for Q&A Bristol. He previously worked at HTB where he headed up Alpha and was one of the presenters of the Alpha film series. Toby Timetable and Content: is married to Gill and they have one son, Barny.

St Nicholas is a vibrant resource church in 11:00 Arrive at St Nicholas, Tea & Coffee the city centre of Bristol led by Rev Toby and 11:15 Check-in and introductions Gill Flint. Commissioned by the Diocese of 12:30 Session on setting up Media, Marketing, Social Bristol and planted from HTB in September Media and Branding 2018, St Nicholas opened its doors after 70 13:00 Lunch years of being closed as a place of worship. 13:30 Session on ‘St Nicholas Bristol, Alpha and Top The reopening of the church in 2018 as a Tasks & Action Points Tips for Church Planting’ led by Toby Flint centre for worship, mission and social engagement continues this legacy of being 15:15 Q&A a church in the city, for the city. St Nicholas 15:30 Session finish is a space where anyone can come to explore faith in a pressure-free environment, to encounter Jesus for themselves and to make a difference in the world around them.

www.stnicholasbristol.org

Recommended Reading The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry by John Mark Comer

84 85 Notes & Sketches Chapter 8 Racial Diversity Session 1

Aim:

• To consider the creation of diversity and its importance to God • To address the theological imperative for racial diversity in unity Alwyn Webb • To understand the importance of diversity and inclusion within the context of church planting and church leadership • To have a Q&A time Alwyn joined the clergy team at HTB in November 2019 and was appointed Content: HTB Pastoral Chaplain in July 2020. His association with HTB began in October During this session, Alwyn will outline the creation of diversity 1988 when he came to faith at an evening and God’s goal for racial diversity as presented in the books service at Brompton Road. Prior to this, he of Genesis and Revelation, respectively. He will also present a was a soldier and served in the Army’s, ‘cultural and social mandate’ (drawn from the New Testament) Airborne Forces. In 1996, he completed for the promotion and maintenance of diversity in unity, within teacher-training and thereafter, taught in the Body of Christ and contrast this, with some of the historical secondary schools for the next 14 years and ongoing barriers to racial and cultural diversity, today. in both the state and independent sector. While a Deputy Head, he received God’s He will also address the importance of ‘diversity’ and ‘inclusion’ call to ordained ministry and began training for church leaders who are planting churches located in at St Mellitus in 2011. He was ordained in Tasks & Action Points multicultural towns or cities. 2013 and served his curacy at Holy Trinity, Richmond. He lives in Twickenham with his wife Kate and two boys.

Recommended Reading We Need To Talk About Race: The Black Experience in White Majority Churches by Ben Lindsay

86 87 Planting Holy Trinity Notes & Sketches Chapter 8 Hastings & Prayer in Session 2 Difficult Situations

Aim:

• To understand how to build at the heart one’s church and personal life • To facilitate conversations on the challenges and disappointments in planting and how to pray and Si Larkin overcome in these circumstances • To learn how to implement prayer initiatives e.g. Kingdom Come Simon and Sarah Larkin planted HTH in November 2014 from St Peter’s Brighton. HTH is a town centre church in Hastings Content: with a particular calling to be a church for the young, the non-religious and the Life during the first year of a church plant is a fun adventure but marginalised. Simon’s previous career was also challenging, daunting and all-consuming. This session will in International Development where he spent look at some of the challenges and ideas for keeping a healthy a number of years in East Africa working personal prayer life in the midst of the first year. We will look in complex emergencies before becoming at the rhythm of prayer used at Holy Trinity Hastings (HTH) as Head of Programme Development at an example of one church’s prayer life. We will be looking at Tearfund. some leadership challenges experienced in the first year of a church plant, and how key assumptions influence strategy. We will also examine some key principles which have been central Tasks & Action Points to establishing HTH.

Recommended Reading Dirty Glory by Pete Grieg

88 89 Notes & Sketches Branding For A New Chapter 9 Church Plant Session 1

Al Gordon Aim: • To look at some church branding examples and see what make them effective Al Gordon leads Hackney Church, a • To understand the language of designers and how to thriving church on a mission to bring hope specify what you what to the heart of East London. He is married • To plan designs for church branding to Olivia, an architect, and they have three • Time for Q&A children. Al is a trustee of Alpha International and the charity: Water. Content:

Al and Toby will be teaching about media and branding: what to do, how to go about it and the timescale before planting. In this practicle session, you will have an opportunity to start thinking about your website and social media platforms. We hope this will be a really fun session for you, hearing about one of the church plants and learning about media and branding. There will be plenty of time for Q&A too! Toby Thomas

Toby is a professional film maker who Tasks & Action Points loves to see young people using their skills and passions in creative ways. Toby is an Ordinand at Hackney Church and is a part of a exciting new partnership with Shoreditch Church to create an new hub for outreach in the neighbourhood.

https://hackney.church/

Recommended Reading Designing Brand Identity by Alina Wheeler (4th Edition)

90 91 Social Media & Notes & Sketches Chapter 9 Engaging Audiences Session 2 Online

Aim:

• To understand what makes social media platforms effective • To look at examples of different churches social media – how does it engage the audience Hannah Finch • To understand the pitfalls of social media and how to make it firm in theology yet engaging the unchurched • To have time for Q&A Hannah is married to Jon with two small children and together they lead Saint Mary’s Southampton, a church plant from HTB in 2018. They are passionate about spiritual, social and cultural renewal and believe that church shouldn’t be contained in a building but it should flow out and permeate society by uplifting and bringing hope to everyone. Hannah is the editor-in-chief of the Leesman Review, a thought leadership magazine. Tasks & Action Points

Recommended Reading The Connected Church: A Social Media Communication Strategy Guide for Churches, Nonprofits and Individuals in Ministry by Natchi Lazarus

92 93 Thinking Differently Notes & Sketches About Evangelism: Chapter 10 How to run and Session 1 grow a church for the unchurched

Aim: Alex Wood

• To start a conversation about how we can reach people Alex is the Vicar of Harbour Church outside of church Portsmouth. Alex and his wife Liz moved • To have a time of Q&A from St Peter’s Church in Brighton to plant Harbour Church in the Summer of 2016. A group of 17 people moved from Brighton Content: and London to be part of the planting team. The church is now over three locations We all want to meet people who don’t go to church yet, but so with 600 people regularly attending each often our church activities are aimed at those who are already Sunday. Alex came to faith on an Alpha attending our church. In this session Alex and Jess will think course while working as a Producer at through some ways to focus activities and communications to the BBC, he then went on to join the staff engage the 99% of people who don’t yet go to church. Be of Alpha International before moving to prepared for collaborative thinking and looking at ways to Brighton where he became the Chaplain think outside the box. at Sussex University. Alex and Liz have two children and a cat called Rocky Balboa.

Tasks & Action Points

Jess Elliott

Jess is Head of Communications and Culture at Harbour Church Portsmouth. Jess came as a Communications Intern to Harbour in 2017 and has never left. Jess graduated in History at Royal Holloway University before realising the academic life was not for her and has since used her creative gifts to find ways to engage the 99% of people who don’t go to church and to present the Church Recommended Reading in new ways that reach the unreached. Culture Making: Recovering our creative calling Andy Crouch

94 95 Reaching the Notes & Sketches Chapter 10 Unchurched in Session 2 Birmingham

Aim:

• To learn about how to evangelise to those who don’t attend Church • To learn about Rachel’s Top Tips about church planting in Birmingham Rachel Hughes • To understand about the power of Alpha • To have a Q&A time Rachel is married to Tim and together they have 4 children. She is the co-Lead Pastor Content: of Gas Street in Birmingham; a church they planted in 2015. Rachel has a background Drawing on her experience at HTB, and on her role as Lead in Television & Media and also served on Pastor at Gas Street Church for the last 5 years; Rachel will the staff team at HTB for several years. She share some of the lessons learned (the successes and the is passionate about seeing God’s Kingdom failures!) in attempting to communicate a vision for evangelism come in Birmingham and communicating within the context of a new church plant. This includes creating the freedom and transformation that comes and sustaining a culture of “invitation”, as well as launching through a relationship with Jesus. Alpha for the first time and raising up Alpha leaders. Tasks & Action Points

Recommended Reading The Provocative Church by Graham Tomlin

96 97 Ministry and how the Chapter 11 Notes & Sketches power of the Session 1 Holy Spirit can change a church

Aim:

• To be an interactive session in order to learn how to be Sandy Millar led by the spirit and lead a church that is led by the spirit The Rt. Rev’d John Alexander Kirkpatrick (Sandy) Millar practised for 10 years as Content: a barrister before being ordained into the Church of England in 1976. He joined the Bishop Sandy Millar, as the vicar of HTB, led the church staff of Holy Trinity Brompton as curate in through significant moves of the Holy Spirit encouraged 1976, becoming Vicar in 1985. He oversaw initially by his friendship with John Wimber and his experience the growth of Holy Trinity Brompton to the of the Spirit in the early 1980s. Under Sandy’s leadership, HTB largest church in the Church of England and was significantly impacted by the ‘Toronto Blessing’ in 1994 its ‘church planting’ initiative into church and continued to foster a culture and expectation of encounter buildings in other parts of London on the with God and prayer ministry. This interactive session will draw verge of extinction. He was responsible for on over 40 years of Sandy’s church leadership experience, overseeing the growth of the Alpha course focusing on how to be led by the spirit and how to lead a from a small local parish resource to one church that is led by the spirit. used by thousands of churches around the world. He was installed as a Prebendary of St. Paul’s Cathedral in 1997. After 20 years as Vicar of HTB, he stood down in July 2005 Tasks & Action Points and became Vicar of St. Mark Tollington Park in a deprived part of London. In November 2005, he was consecrated as an Assistant Bishop in the Province of Uganda in a joint initiative of the Archbishop of Uganda, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London. In February 2006 he was licensed to act as an assistant Bishop in the Diocese of London at a major service led by the Bishop of London in St Paul’s Cathedral. He retired in 2011 and is still active as a licensed Honorary Assistant Bishop in both the Diocese of London and in the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich where they now live. Sandy is married to Annette and Recommended Reading they have four children. Come Holy Spirit by David Pytches and John Wimber

98 99 The Holy Spirit: Notes & Sketches Chapter 11 The Role it plays in Session 2 Church Planting

Aim:

• To understand the role of ministry and the spirit in a resource church • To learn about planting to St Matthias • Time for Q&A Olly Ryder

Content: Olly planted a City Centre Resource Church to Plymouth, St. Matthias, in September But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; 2016 and is dedicated to play his part in and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea the re-evangelisation of Plymouth and the and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth. Acts 1 vs 8 South West, the revitalisation of the Church and the transformation of society. Previously, In this session, Olly will share his experience of planting a Olly was the Vicar of St. Mark’s Kensal Rise Church, how he has engaged with the community and why the for six years and served his curacy in the Holy Spirit is such a key component of their church plant and Tollington Parish with Bishop Sandy Millar. outreach. He will share some stories about his experience and Before his training for ordination, Olly hopefully will be able to answer some questions. worked for more than 5 years for Alpha International as Reporting and Advertising It is clear that Olly involves the spirit in all that he does, and it Manager. Olly is married to the wonderful is infectious. Come prepared to be challenged and inspired Ali, they have two gorgeous daughters and Tasks & Action Points by all that Olly and Ali have done in Plymouth in the last three a Springer Spaniel. years.

Recommended Reading Practice The Presence of God by Brother Lawrence

100 101 Fearless Leadership: Notes & Sketches How to be leaders Chapter 11 that are led by the Session 3 Holy Spirit

Aim:

• How to be fully led by the Holy Spirit • How to connect with your diocese • To have a time of ministry Bishop Jill Duff Bishop of Lancaster

Content: Bishop Jill was born and brought up in We are extremely privileged to have Bishop Jill Duff speaking Bolton, Lancashire, and educated at Christ at the Accelerator Programme. Bishop Jill has been given a College, Cambridge and Worcester mandate for church planting in her diocese and is passionate College, Oxford. From 2005, she took up to seek out what the Holy Spirit is doing through church the role of pioneer minister, church planting planting across the nation. Bishop Jill has a passion for those in Liverpool City Centre until 2011. In 2009 who are hidden and on the margins and in this session she she was appointed chaplain to Liverpool will explore how to raise up leaders and call them into God’s College, going on in 2011, to work as purpose for their lives. On top of this, she will she will speak vocations development advisor in the on what ‘Fearless Leadership’ really means and tell many diocese of Liverpool. inspiring stories about how God is on the move. Be prepared for an amazing session and come ready to receive the Spirit of From 2012, Bishop Jill worked to build the Lord! a partnership between the North West Tasks & Action Points Bishops and St Mellitus College, London, and in 2013 became the founding director of St Mellitus College, North West, based at Liverpool Cathedral.

Since 2018, Bishop Jill has been the Bishop of Lancaster, a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Blackburn. Being born and brought up in Lancashire, the region has been on her heart and in her prayers for many years.

Bishop Jill has a close relationship with HTB and has spoken at the leaders retreats and Recommended Reading Accelerator Programme. She is passionate Becoming a Resonant Leader by Annie McKee and Richard about church planting and the fire of the Boyatzis Holy Spirit.

102 103 Discipleship: Notes & Sketches Chapter 12 The role it plays in Session 1 Church Planting

Aim:

• To explore the importance of disciple making in church planting • To look at ways of being able to make discipleship central to the vision of the church Pete Hughes • To understand the simple and helpful language to give your congregation a discipleship structure • To explore the importance of culture in disciple making Pete Hughes, along with his wife Bee, lead King’s Cross Church (KXC) in central London. They planted the church in 2010 with the Content: simple vision to recklessly give themselves away to God, each other, and the period of The journey of discipleship is central to our mission because it’s King’s Cross and beyond. in becoming like Jesus that we see the world changed. If there is a strategy for cultural renewal, community transformation and kingdom ministry present in the gospels and book of Acts, it would have two solid foundations: become more like Jesus and follow the leading of the Spirit. Everything else is built on this. Yet often in the church we reduce discipleship down to knowing the right things and rely on a Sunday worship gathering to form disciples. How do we recapture a biblical Tasks & Action Points vision for discipleship that sees us be with Jesus, become like him and do the stuff he did, so we might see followers of Jesus shaped by his heart and sent out to redeem and restore the world around us.

Recommended Reading The Complete Book of Discipleship: On Being and Making Followers of Christ by Bill Hull

104 105 Notes & Sketches Discipleship & Chapter 12 Leadership Session 2

Aim:

• To explore the relationship between discipleship and leadership • To envision the building of a leader rich culture • To equip leaders with tools for raising leaders Pete Wynter • To understand the nature of distinctively Christian leadership

Content: Pete Wynter is Leadership Pastor at Holy Trinity Brompton, Director of the Leadership Pete will inspire vision and practical application of raising up College London (endorsed by the Institute leaders who will both strengthen and build churches. Using of Leadership and Management), and some tried and tested models, we’ll discuss the impact of Founding Director at Onelife Leadership, multiplying a leader rich culture and empowering distinctively a charitable company working with young Christian leaders. leaders around the UK and beyond.

Pete speaks and coaches into a range of leadership competencies, with the specialism of increasing capacity and character in Leaders. He has delivered transformational leadership programmes globally and has been instrumental in establishing Tasks & Action Points the Leadership College Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He has spoken at and hosted the international Leadership Conference in the Royal Albert Hall for several years.

Pete has enjoyed training in contexts like BMW, PWC and YTL. He is also Leadership Coach at Gloucester Rugby, working with international players from the top rugby teams in the world.

He enjoys adventure, tries to keep his competitive edge in check and loves heading for Cornwall with his wife Sarah, their three children and one adorable dog called Luna.

106 107 Notes & Sketches Planting into areas Chapter 13 of Social Deprivation Session 1

Aim:

• To share practical tools, essential concepts and spiritual confidence which will help you and those you lead plant into areas of social deprivation Ben Atkins Content: Ben lives with his wife Sarah in the old docks After short introductions and ascertaining the expertise in the of East London where they are working to room, Ben will talk about power dynamics in ‘planting into multiply churches across the neighbourhood. areas of social deprivation’. He will then progress onto looking Over the last four years they have seen God at four areas and end with a time of reflection and Q&A. do amazing things with a small team, few human resources and no church building The four areas Ben will look at are: for the first two years. He is also a church- 1. Understanding the Neighbourhood planting coach with the V3 Movement. 2. Engaging the Neighbourhood 3. Discipling in the Neighbourhood 4. Gathering & Growing in the Neighbourhood Tasks & Action Points

Recommended Reading Unreached by Tim Chester

108 109 The Story of the Gosport Church plant Notes & Sketches Chapter 13 and the First Principles Session 2 of Planting To An Estate

Aim:

• To learn the role of a resource church in an estate • To understand the different requirements and challenges Ray Driscoll when planting to an estate • To have a Q&A time Ray is on the staff team at Harbour Church, with particular responsibility for the church Content: plant in Gosport. He is married to Nic and they have two boys, Charlie and Joe. Ray This session will explore the contextual particularities of housing grew up on housing estates and is passionate estates and the joys and challenges of church planting in this about sharing the gospel and transforming context. Through telling the emerging story of the church plant lives in the poorest communities. Ray enjoys in Gosport, Ray will offer insight into the defining elements of walking the dog, trips to the beach and planting into an estate and identifying how we might need listening to music. to modify our planting methodology in order for our church plants to thrive. Tasks & Action Points

Recommended Reading Ordinary Miralces: Mess, Meals and Meeting Jesus in Unexpected Places by Chris Lane

11 0 111 Prison Ministry; Notes & Sketches Chapter 13 Providing Hope out of Session 3 Despair

Aim:

• Hear the history of HTB’s prison work • To understand the importance of training • To be aware of crossing boundaries • Have an understanding how to work with the marginalised Revd Paul Cowley MBE • To understand the importance of partnerships Paul has a very interesting background, growing up in a dysfunctional home and Content: finding himself in a gang and then in HSP Risley prison. Since coming out of prison, In the session, we will not only have an understanding about Paul threw himself into the army and had Paul’s exceptionally difficult childhood and his story but we will a radical conversion to Christianity, having also hear about the history of ‘Alpha for Prisons’ and the crucial been an atheist before. importance of aftercare when the guests come out of prison. Paul has now been on staff at HTB for 21 Often many new curates or church leaders want to understand years and was the site pastor of HTB Queens more about the integration of ex-offenders into their church, Gate one of HTB’s sites for 8 years, running how to train and mentor them and any safe-guarding issues tradition and Anglo Catholic services. He is that might arise. Paul will cover this, and much more, as well as now pioneering HTB’s 5th site on an estate share some key resources which are available and hopefully in North London near to the Grenfell tower have time for Q&A at the end! area. He is also a Chaplain Governor of Tasks & Action Points Glendower Preparatory School for girls in London. In 2016 He was appointment Bishops’ Advisor for Prisons and Penal affairs and is further developing this work in the London diocese.

After 21 years’ experience of working with socially excluded and vulnerable adults - both inside and outside prison - Paul was awarded an MBE in 2016 from Her Majesty the Queen for ‘Services to Ex-Offenders’.

Recommended Reading Thief Prisoner Soldier Priest by Revd Paul Cowley MBE

CFEO handbook 112 113 City and community mapping: Notes & Sketches Chapter 14 Vision casting for Session 1 churches that love and serve their cities

Aim:

• To understand the areas which need mapping • To practically implement city mapping, using laptops and understanding more about the city Sarah Jackson Content: Sarah is the CEO of CRT, the Church This session is a practical opportunity, with laptops to hand, Revitalisation Trust, which supports the to map the area God is calling you to serve. In teams we will planting of city centre resource churches investigate and explore what are some of the greatest practical across the UK. Prior to CRT, Sarah was HTB needs of the area: Who is the largest local employer? Who is Group Chief of Staff. Since joining HTB in the local council, police, Diocese? What are the Ofsted results? 1984, Sarah has been involved in strategic What is the local sports team? What specialism do the local church leadership positions including as universities offer? Is there a local prison or Hospital – who Director of Operations and Executive Pastor are the chaplains? What are other churches doing well that at St Paul’s Hammersmith where she was you can support? What are significant historical events, both part of the core planting team in 2000 positive and negative that may continue to bear influence on and oversaw a six-million-pound extension the spiritual climate of the city? How through your research can project and external advertising campaign. you better position your church community to be a blessing Sarah was also Founding Director of a and of service to the local communities to facilitate individual successful Property and Design Company Tasks & Action Points and community transformation? working in the UK and Europe.

Come prepared to dig deep as we prayerfully and prophetically undertake this exercise of city mapping and present back our findings to the cohort. As Bonhoeffer encourages us, ‘The church is church only when it is there for others.’

Recommended Reading Center Church Europe by Tim Keller, Chapter 4

114 115 Notes & Sketches Chapter 14 City Mapping Session 2

Aim:

• To understand how to map a city effectively • To learn about the influence city mapping has had in Andover • To have a Q&A time Chris Bradish

Content: Chris is Vicar of St Mary’s Andover. He is married to Nai and they have three young Understanding your plant city is a mission-critical task. Cities children. Following a curacy in Winchester are complex places and how you define yours will shape the Diocese, they moved to serve and train at character of your mission and the kind of church you end up HTB before being sent to lead a planting planting! Cities have multiple identities which vary depending team in Andover. Andover is a fast-growing on who’s talking – as the saying goes, ‘every point of view is town in Hampshire (just an hour from London) a view from a point’. Intuitively we get this but thinking through and home to Army HQ. It’s surrounded by how you’re processing your learning and which sources you’re amazing countryside and is a great place to drawing on can be a helpful part of the planning stage. call home. Before ordination Chris worked as a lawyer in London. Nai is a social worker In this session, Chis will look at a few practical tools that he has for Children and Families and over the years found helpful in Andover to how he has got to grips with social has worked mainly to support children with narratives, local networks, spiritual and cultural dynamics, disabilities. Tasks & Action Points collective memory and social data. All these will help you start to get under the skin of your city quickly, avoid some pitfalls and sharpen your vision for the church God has called you to plant.

Recommended Reading Center Church Europe Chapter 4 by Tim Keller

116 117 Spring Term

118 119 Notes & Sketches Chapter 15 100 Day Plan Session 1

Aim:

• To understand what is needed for the first 100 days after launch • To spend time planning the first 100 days • To see models of a 52-week preaching programme Sarah Jackson

Content: Sarah is the CEO of CRT, the Church Revitalisation Trust, which supports the Without a long-term vision or plan, people perish. planting of city centre resource churches Proverbs 29 vs 18 across the UK. Prior to CRT, Sarah was HTB Group Chief of Staff. Since joining HTB in This fast paced, practical and participatory session will cover 1984, Sarah has been involved in strategic the operational cycle of year one of a church plant. It will cover church leadership positions including as the operational cycle for management of church staff teams, Director of Operations and Executive Pastor weekly mapping of the three academic terms including church at St Paul’s Hammersmith where she was events, courses and best practice timetabling for forward part of the core planting team in 2000 planning. The session will outline how to build an effective and oversaw a six-million-pound extension annual communications plan and matrix. project and external advertising campaign. Sarah was also Founding Director of a This session will look at how to build an outstanding, well thought successful Property and Design Company Tasks & Action Points through, spirit-filled preaching programme, as participants working in the UK and Europe. draft a 52-week themed, topical or lectionary preaching programme. At the end of this workshopped session, each planting team should have completed a draft 100-day plan for their staff teams, 3 termly church calendar and 52 week preaching programme. Come ready to work hard and dream some dreams!

120 121 Civic and public Notes & Sketches church launch and Chapter 16 preparations leading Session 1 up to the launch

Aim:

• To understand the difference between a Civic and Public launch • To map out the pre-launch plan • To understand the format and who to invite Joel Sales • To learn from Joel’s experience in Swindon • To have a Q&A time Joel leads Pattern Church in Swindon, a HTB resourcing church which launched Content: in December 2018. He grew up in the independent church before serving as a Joel will take you through how he gathered his team, built worship Pastor in Cape Town and Bath. momentum, shared vision and got the word out in the run up to After Vicar school, Joel was a Curate at launching Pattern Church. He will explain how and why they St John’s Hampton Wick and a Plating differentiated between a Civic and Public launch, and talk us Curate at HTB. He’s married to Cath who through some of the ingredients and thinking needed when runs a creative business and they have two launching a resourcing church. legendary sons. Tasks & Action Points

Recommended Reading Joel Sales Article on first 6 months church planting: joelsales.wordpress.com

122 123 Notes & Sketches Preaching Chapter 16 Programme Session 2

Aim:

• To learn the best way to construct an outstanding sermon and preaching programme • To understand the tools and how to apply it Stephen Foster

Content: Stephen Foster is the Preaching Pastor at Every effective preacher needs tools to craft faithful, engaging, Holy Trinity Brompton, where he leads the text-driven sermons. However, since vicars have limited time Discipleship Team and School of Preaching, each week and there are thousands of potential preaching oversees Alpha at HTB, and helps to run resources; knowing the best commentaries and books to help Alpha across the UK. He read Law at Oxford in sermon preparation can be a daunting task. But once you’ve and Theology at Cambridge, and worked read the best texts and put together a sermon, how to you then as a Barrister for six years, specialising in deliver it effectively and poignantly? In this session, Stephen criminal law. He is married to Beth and they will explore various techniques of communication which assist have four beautiful girls. in constructing talks as well as communicate effectively with a range of different people. Tasks & Action Points

Recommended Reading Preaching by Tim Keller

124 125 Notes & Sketches How to navigate the Chapter 16 press and media Session 3

Aim:

• To learn how to deal with the press and media at the launch and in the future • To learn how to deal with difficult emails and requests • To have a Q&A time Mark Elsdon-Dew

Content: Mark is a legend at HTB and has worked at HTB since 1991. Formerly he was Foreign In this session, Mark will speak about general relations with the Editor of the Sunday Express newspaper. local and national press, especially in relation to your launch He looks after press relations for the group day. Press and publicity can be a wonderful opportunity for and is involved with church planting and the you to evangelise and reach out to those who might not come clergy pipeline. to church but it must be dealt with in the right way, using the right methods and tools. Therefore, Mark will speak about dealing with the trickiest of issues such as email correspondents, press and the local people. He will help you understand how Press and Media can influence your relationship with the Bishop and your Diocese and encourage your Bishop with new church planting opportunities. Lastly, Mark will touch on the governance of the church by working with your PCC and Tasks & Action Points Church wardens.

126 127 Notes & Sketches Impact Management Chapter 17 & Theory of Change Session 1

Aim:

• To learn how a ‘Theory of Change’ approach can help Jo Rice the Church increase its impact on society Jo Rice is Co-founder and Managing Director of Resurgo, and author of the Spear programme (www.resurgo.org.uk/spear). Content: Prior to Resurgo, Jo’s background was in corporate coaching and she is passionate In this session we will visit the Theory of Change model and about embedding a coaching culture and consider how it can help us think more strategically about the social impact into organisations. Through impact we want to bring about. What would it look like to have Resurgo, Jo works with a range of high- clear understanding of the outcomes we are bringing about profile businesses and charities. She is a through the Church and how might this affect the programmes trustee of International Justice Mission UK. we choose to run? To what extent is it possible to measure the impact we’re having, and how do we focus our efforts when we’re presented with multiple complex needs? Assisted by a panel who have faced these issues in their own Church contexts, we will explore these questions whilst giving space for personal application and interaction. Tasks & Action Points

Pete Bacon

Pete is Executive Director of Impact and Operations at Resurgo. He joined Resurgo as part of the coaching team in 2009 before managing several the Spear Centres. He joined the Impact team while Resurgo was embarking on the Theory of Change process, and pioneered Resurgo’s internal quality and development work.

Recommended Reading Lean Impact: How to Innovate for Radically Greater Social Good by Ann Mei Chang 128 129 The Importance of Notes & Sketches Collecting Data: Chapter 17 CRT Impact and Data Session 2 Measurement

Aim:

• To understand why impact measurement is important for Kim Vaudrey you and your church plant Kim joined CRT in July 2017 as Director • To see how you can collect data in a straightforward way of Operations and is responsible for • To understand what collecting data means for all of us as CRT’s finances, operations and project a network delivery. Having started his career in financial services, Kim spent several years in operations in the hedge fund industry Content: before joining HTB in 2014. He spent time in the Finance and Giving teams before his In this session we look at the importance of impact measurement current role as COO with CRT. in church planting, and how to practically go about measuring impact. This includes some ideas on how to collect and use data to gain insights about your church, which you can use to ensure you are operating at your best.

Tasks & Action Points Annie Magee

Annie joined CRT in January 2019 and she is now the Senior Operations and Project Manager for Love Your Neighbour. She works closely with Tom Jackson to ensure that the vision of Love Your Neighbour is delivered upon. This means innovating and developing the Love Your Neighbour model, as we scale up, and liaising with a variety of external partners including government and other charities and businesses.

Recommended Reading Good To Great by Jim Collins 13 0 131 Notes & Sketches The Story of Trinity, Chapter 18 Nottingham Session 1

Aim:

• To learn about the story of planting to Nottingham • To understand what challenges and opportunities were faced • To give ‘top tips’ about what you wish you had known Jonny Hughes and what you would do differently • To lead a group exercise • To have a Q&A time Jonny leads Trinity Church Nottingham with his wife Amy. They planted the church in late 2016, and it has been the adventure of their Content: lives so far. They love living in Nottingham with their four kids and their dog. Jonny Jonny & Amy planted Trinity in September 2016, having moved loves sport and has taken up running since to Nottingham with a small team of six others. Since then, they planting a church to deal with the stress! have seen the church grow to around 350 weekly worshippers, Before moving to Nottingham, Jonny and with a thriving kids ministry and culture of worship and prayer. Amy had spent most of the preceding The real story, however, has been the discovery that Trinity was decade in church leadership, at HTB for four a church that existed in the mind of God before any one of years and on the staff team at Rock Harbor, them dreamt it, and that He had been making provision for the a church in Southern California, for four church before anyone had any idea they’d be there. years before that. This session will be focused around a few of Trinity’s key stories, Tasks & Action Points each of which will introduce a value that makes Trinity what it is. Jonny will speak about some of the key learnings along the way and will focus in on prioritizing worship, and the importance of building a healthy staff culture.

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132 133 Notes & Sketches Top Tips and Interview Chapter 18 with the Gumbels Session 2

Aim:

• To learn from Nicky and Pippa about how to sustain a flourishing and healthy ministry • To have time for Q&A Nicky & Pippa Content: Gumbel

This interactive session with Nicky and Pippa Gumbel will Nicky Gumbel is Vicar of Holy Trinity include them sharing their experiences from over thirty years in Brompton (HTB), an Anglican church in church leadership. Focusing on the different stages of ministry, central London which holds 11 Sunday family life and leading a global ministry. services across 5 sites with a regular attendance of around 4,500 people – most The session will give time for Q&A while covering key aspects aged between 18 and 35. Nicky is married of church leadership such as: to Pippa and together, they run and look after HTB. They are pioneers of Alpha, an • How to prioritise in the mist of multiple demands? introduction to the Christian faith. Since • How to build a balanced lifestyle with effective personal 1993, more than 26 million people have habits and disciplines? completed an Alpha in 169 countries. They • How to prevent spiritual, emotional and physical burn also write a daily commentary on the Bible out? Tasks & Action Points in One Year which has around two million • Identifying key risks and danger signs for the ministry. subscribers. • How to cast vision well? • How to develop a deeper, growing relationship with God within limited time pressures? • What can a leader delegate and what is essential to hold onto? • How to have fun in ministry? How to deal with disappointment. • Key pointers in how to structure and lead your senior team effectively: Ministry Heads. • How to build in habits for the long haul?

Recommended Reading Telling Others: The Alpha Initiative & The Bible in One Year by Nicky Gumbel

134 135 Notes & Sketches Social Transformation: Chapter 19 Church and Society Session 1 & 2

Aim:

• To learn how to develop a church and congregation that fosters social change and city transformation • To understand how social transformation is the heart of the mission Tom Jackson

Tom is the founder and Chief Executive of Content: Resurgo Trust which works with businesses to help them employ young people from In this session, we will think about the way in which God is disadvantaged backgrounds through the calling us to engage with and help transform areas such as Spear Programme (www.resurgo.org. business, the arts, charity, media, health care and politics in uk/spear) as well as supporting other your local area and re-examine the relationship between the entrepreneurs with a social purpose to Gospel and its impact on our culture. We will also start to increase their impact and scale through consider how to discern God’s calling when faced with many Resurgo Ventures. Tom is on the clergy team different areas of need. In partnership with a panel who have at HTB where he hosts the HTB Entrepreneurs had to grapple with these issues, we will explore a holistic view and Screen and Stage Networks, as well as of Church led social impact with plenty of opportunities for running regular Cultural Impact Debates with open discussion and application. the congregation. He was co-founder of the Centre for Social Justice think-tank in 2004 Tasks & Action Points & of Faithworks in 2000. Tom qualified as a solicitor in 1995 and was awarded an MBA from Henley Business School in 2007.

Recommended Reading Church in Hard Places by Mez McConnell & Mike McKinley

13 6 137 Reaching the Next Notes & Sketches Generation and Chapter 20 Church Planting with Session 1 Soul Survivor

Aim:

• To understand the way an effective youth ministry runs • To give top tips about reaching the unchurched • To understand how to engage the youth and the next generation Mike Pilvachi • To give top tips about church planting and the story of Soul Survivor • To have a Q&A time Mike Pilavachi is the co-senior pastor of Soul Survivor Watford church alongside his friend Andy Croft. Over the past 26 years he Content: has also been the co-founder and leader of Soul Survivor ministries (a charity that aims Mike is passionate about young people: helping them to reach to equip young people to live their lives for their potential and know who they are in Jesus. In this session, Jesus). Mike will focus on how relationships with youth are key and how being part of the God’s family allows youth to flourish. Mike speaks at conferences around the Be ready to be inspired by the many stories that Mike has world, trying to make people laugh and about how to cultivate relationships and draw the best out of point them towards Jesus at the same time. youth, how to set a fire in their hearts for Jesus and how to bring He has written a number of books the latest them into the Family of God. This is a brilliant opportunity for of which is called ‘Lifelines’. questions and answers and there will be time for ministry. Tasks & Action Points In his spare time, he loves to cook, watch the West Wing and tend to his grape vines!

Recommended Reading iGen by Jean Twenge

13 8 139 Notes & Sketches Setting up 0-11s Chapter 20 Kids Ministry Session 2

Aim:

• To understand what makes an effective kids ministry • To impact knowledge from the church plant at Portsmouth and setting up the kids ministry • To have a Q&A time Sarah Jeffery

Content: Sarah moved from Brighton to be part of the church planting team for Harbour Church Establishing a vibrant children’s ministry is central to a Portsmouth in 2016. She started the Harbour flourishing City Centre Resource Church and, on top of this, Kids ministry as an intern and then started as reaching out to the community through kids ministry will help a full-time kids pastor in 2017. 4 years later, bring many people into the church. Yet, this is a lot easier said the Harbour Kids ministry reaches over 150 than done. Evidence has shown that families will continue to children each week and pioneered ‘The attend a church and invite non-churched families to a service Four’, a weekly family service which has if the children’s groups and ministry is outstanding. But how do effectively grown the church population you make it outstanding? from 12 people to over 150 young families. Sarah is also heading up the HTB Network Sarah will share her thoughts on what makes an effective of Kids Pastors and has been part of the kids ministry and what resources and tools are essential or core team running Focus Kids. desirable. She will also share her ‘Top Tips’ about setting up Tasks & Action Points the kids ministry at Harbour Church Portsmouth and what were the challenges she faced. Sarah will talk about how finding the right Kids Pastor is key, and with a fun kids ministry that puts on outreach events for unchurched families and the local schools, this could be one of your most effective resources for engaging with the City and bringing families to church.

140 141 How to set up a Notes & Sketches Chapter 20 thriving Student Session 3 Ministry

Aim:

• To identify what makes an effective student ministry • To understand how to reach students • To share top tips and best practice • To have a Q&A time Luke Smith

Content: Luke has worked with students in church for 20 years. He loves helping churches In the last 40 years, there has been a radical shift in the university figure out how to reach students. He leads landscape. Student numbers have dramatically increased and the Fusion team to keep them sharp and universities have appeared in new locations. Halls of residence focused as they serve the local church. Luke have popped up and whole neighbourhoods have become lives in York with his wife Hannah and their mainly student occupancies. There are now 2.3 million students two boys Morgan and Aaron. He is often in the UK but only 1.1% of these students are part of local found on a golf course! churches which makes students the biggest, identifiable people group in the UK. We are also in a time of change right now and the landscape is still shifting. Young people are still considering whether to go to university as much as they used to due to COVID. Universities are struggling financially. Nevertheless, the leaders of tomorrow are university today. Imagine if we Tasks & Action Points can reach them with the gospel while they are still figuring out who they are going to become.

Throughout history, some of the most significant moves of God have started amongst groups of students and our prayer is that He would do it again! Drawing on lessons from his own experience and student ministries across the nation, Luke will walk us through the fundamentals of a thriving student ministry. We will discuss key issues facing students today. We will explore the balance of discipleship growth vs mobilising your students for mission. There will be plenty of time for Q&A so Recommended Reading we can discuss the key features in launching a student work in A Call Less Ordinary by Rich Wilson your church.

142 143 The story of LoveChurch and Notes & Sketches Chapter 21 breaking through Session 1 Church Planting barriers

Aim:

• To learn about the journey at Love Church • To understand how best to be equipped for a church plant • To learn about the potential barriers in the first months and then the first couple of years Tim Matthews • To understand how to do the unthinkable and break the barriers • To have a Q&A time Tim holds a PhD in Business Science and Social Psychology and was a Chartered Accountant with KPMG prior to retraining Content: in theology at Oxford University. He joined HTB as curate in 2008 where his core This session will look at the case study of St Swithun’s job was running the mid-week pastoral/ Bournemouth, planted in 2014, and that of its first church plant discipleship groups, growing those to over out to St Clement’s Boscombe in 2017. It is recommended that 100 groups. Tim tried and failed to plant prior to the session attendees read Tim’s book “Love Church”, out from HTB 11 times before successfully a source of much encouragement and learning across the starting St Swithun’s Bournemouth in 2014, network and beyond. In it, Tim tells the real-life stories of the which quickly grew to a large, young church blessings and battles of church planting, and shares many of enacting social mission. They planted a the mistakes he and his team made, as well as reflecting on the second-generation church in 2017 and things they got right. plan to plant several more over the coming Tasks & Action Points years. Tim has collected some battle scars Tim Keller’s “Leadership and Church Size Dynamics – How along the way and written an honest and Leadership Changes with Growth” (widely available for free encouraging account of the whole story online) is a key paper to read for this session. Tim will take in his book, “Love Church”. He regularly us through how St Swithun’s have attempted to navigate that interacts with other church leaders to train change as a church, and how he has done so as a leader. He’ll and encourage them. be honest in sharing the “inner game” of church leadership and the necessity for lifelong learning in how to lead and pray. The material will be highly interactive so come armed with questions!

Recommended Reading LoveChurch by Tim Matthews

144 145 Church of England Notes & Sketches Chapter 21 Structure and Session 2 Hierarchy

Aim:

• To understand about the structure of the Church of England • To understand that role of the church commissioners • To learn how to be a blessing to you Bishop and Diocese Rt Revd • To learn how to develop a long-term healthy partnership Ric Thorpe with the Diocese, Deanery and Bishop

Rt Revd Ric Thorpe has been Bishop of Content: Islington since September 2015. Before being appointed to Islington, Bishop Ric was The vision of a City Centre Resource Church is to be a blessing the Bishop of London’s Adviser for Church to the local parish, neighbourhood community and the wider Planting and Rector of St Paul’s Shadwell. city. A large church only becomes a ‘resource church’ when The role of Bishop of Islington – a revived it has planted into the diocese, an area of social deprivation post that had been vacant since 1923 – is or a further city. From the outset of planning a CCRC plant, to support London’s Church growth strategy the relationship between the incumbent planter and the as part of Capital Vision 2020, which sets local Bishop is key. This session will highlight key diocesan a target of creating 100 new worshipping relationships to invest in, how to build a strong relationship with communities within the Diocese by 2020. your Bishop, local clergy and independent church leaders. It Rick is married to Louie and they have three will navigate the landscape of diocesan structures, common children. Tasks & Action Points funds and resourcing. Bishop Ric will share how local clergy can be a blessing to their Bishop, sharing best practice from his wealth of experience. He will also give top tips on how to integrate and become a blessing to your local diocese from an incumbents position and how to build strong relationships with the local clergy. There will be time for contextual questions and advice regarding each planting diocese.

Recommended Reading The Blessed Church by Robert Morris

146 147 Notes & Sketches Strong Marriage, Chapter 22 Strong Ministry Session 1

Aim:

• To think about the importance of marriage with church planters • To identify the pressures on clergy couples • To work on establishing healthy patterns of life to allow Nicky & Sila their ministry and marriage to flourish Lee

Content: Nicky and Sila Lee are the Founders of The Marriage & Pre-Marriage Courses and The This session will address the pressing need to invest in the Parenting Children & Parenting Teenagers health of clergy marriages. It will look at the importance and Courses. Over the last thirty years, they behavioural outcomes that our expectations and priorities have have developed and produced resources on our marriages and ministries. It will explore ways in which to help support family life through the local the couple can be available to each other and how to maintain church. They regularly speak to thousands effective communication for married clergy as flourishing in of guests at training events and conferences their marriage is essential for flourishing in their ministry. Nicky worldwide. They are the co-authors of The and Sila will share ways of ensuring clergy marriages continue Marriage Book, which is based on The to grow and flourish against the pressures and demands of Pre-Marriage Course and The Marriage ministry. Course, and The Parenting Book, which is based on The Parenting Children Course Tasks & Action Points and The Parenting Teenagers Course. Over 2 million people have attended The Marriage Courses in 127 countries. The courses have been translated in to 45 languages, including Mandarin, Spanish, French, Russian, and Arabic. Nicky and Sila have been on staff at Holy Trinity Brompton (HTB) in London for 35 years. Nicky is one of the clergy team. They have been married for over 40 years and have 4 children and 9 grandchildren.

Recommended Reading The Marriage Book by Nicky and Sila Lee

148 149 Notes & Sketches Planting a Church Chapter 22 Together Session 2

Joint Session with Aim:

• To provide an on-the-ground and honest account of each Debi Matthews spouse perspective James Cronin • To set healthy expectations about what it will really look Louie Thorpe like Liv Gordon • To understand how to set the conditions for you and your Andy Kitchen family to flourish

Content:

We believe that husbands and wives are a God given team and when you plant a church, you plant as a team, lead as a team and operate as one team. We believe that strong ministries can come out of strong marriages and recognise that each couple is uniquely called, each spouse has unique gifts, different skill sets and often distinct roles. Equally, we fully recognise the blessing and challenges of planting as a single person and the unique dynamics where both spouses are ordained clergy. However, this session is primarily designed for spouses who are married to a clergy-person.

This seminar is led by a panel who have experienced first-hand Tasks & Action Points what it is to plant and lead a church as part of a married couple. They have navigated relocating their families, juggled the demands of ministry, busy home lives, invested in careers and experienced endless expectations upon them, their family and their ministries. This session will provide a real, on the ground honest account from their unique perspective. It will reflect on lessons learnt early on, how to build healthy expectations and how to help set the conditions for you, your marriage and family to flourish as you undertake this huge and exciting step of planting and leading a church.

Come ready to ask any question, to think about your expectations of your role in ministry and leadership and to learn from these fun, dynamic women.

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150 151 Notes & Sketches ‘Worship First’ Chapter 23 Culture Session 1

Aim:

• To understand the role of worship in setting the culture of a church • To learn how to carry and to teach that culture Paul Nelson Content: Paul is the Worship Pastor of St Peter’s Jehoshaphat appointed men to sing to the Lord and to praise Brighton, HTB’s first church plant outside him for the splendour of his holiness as they went out at the of London. Paul and his wife Sarah joined head of the army. 2 Chronicles 20 vs 2 Archie and Sam’s core team whilst at HTB and moved to Brighton on the original Worship is our priority. Activity is secondary. We see time and planting team in 2009. Paul now oversees time again in scripture that it is worship that prepares the way Bright City, which is the worship movement for a move of God. of St Peter’s Brighton, with a conviction that true worship prepares the way for Jesus to This session will explore how, as we establish our activities change a city. He has also recently taken on and programmes, and look to reach our communities with a new role overseeing the development of the Gospel, we are building the Church with a ‘worship first’ the HTB Network Worship, with a particular culture. passion to pastor, encourage and train worship leaders. Tasks & Action Points

Recommended Reading The Unquenchable Worshipper by Matt Redman

152 153 The Theology of Notes & Sketches Chapter 23 Worship and Church Session 2 Planting

Aim:

• To think about why it matters to think about worship • To understand what really matters in worship • To learn about why worship is such a crucial part of building a church Nick Drake • To look at the biblical reasons why

Nick is Associate Vicar at St Luke’s Gas Content: Street in Birmingham and has been since they planted from HTB. He is involved in Why does the theology of worship really matter? theological formation and teaching ministry as well as pastoral care. He was Director Nick is passionate about putting into words what is happening of Music at St Paul’s Hammersmith in in the experience of worship. Why? Because it is invitational London for many years and is involved in and allows everyone to join in. We will talk about the challenge a song writing ministry called ‘Worship For of putting into words the felt experience of this and tackle why Everyone’. He is married to Becky and has it really matters. 4 children. He loves coffee!

What matters in worship?

Worship, at the highest level, is God’s provision to fulfill calling Tasks & Action Points – worship is God as well as us. God has designed worship as we need it and we get changed. Nick will open up a discussion about this and how it is applicable to your church and what truly matters.

154 155 Notes & Sketches PCC, APCM and Chapter 24 Church Wardens Session 1

Aim:

• To understand the role of the PCC and APCM • To learn how to work with an existing PCC and Church Wardens • To understand the role of the Anglo-Catholic Service Adam Atkinson

Content: Adam is an Archdeacon in London Diocese, covering Central London (known as ‘Charing In this session, Adam will be speaking about understanding the Cross’), with a brief to develop mission and governance of the Church, management divide and distinctions. strategy along with the troubleshooting, Adam will talk you through the different models of the PCC and leadership, fixing and pastoral work of an how to choose which is the best model for you. However, some Archdeacon in the Church of England. He is churches come with existing PCCs, which can be a tricky or also one of the leaders of the Peter Stream smooth transition – and one which can be navigated so that it and a vocations adviser/ADO. Previously all works effectively. Apart from the PCC, Adam will be talking Adam was HTB Network Chaplain for 3 about the “standing committee”, the church wardens and how years, latterly on staff with CRT. He was the staff team relate to governance groups.... plus, some more Vicar of St Peter’s Bethnal Green 2010– exciting things! 2019, a church plant/revitalisation from St Paul’s Shadwell. Tasks & Action Points Adam is a Bishop’s Visitor to a Resource Church BMO, is an Associate at the Gregory Centre for Church Multiplication and has been a Tutor at the Centre for Theology and Community. Adam is married to Heather who is a Vicar in the HTB Network and they have 3 grown up children and a relatively new son-in-law.

Recommended Reading Practical Church Management by James Behrens

156 157 The Essentials of Notes & Sketches Chapter 24 Safeguarding for Session 2 Church Plants

Aim:

• To understand the meaning of safeguarding, promoting a safer environment and responding well to any identified concerns • To understand the policy commitments of the Church of Andy Goodwin England to ensure the care and protection of children, young people and vulnerable adults • To understand the importance of learning from past Andy joined the staff of HTB and Alpha failings International as Safeguarding Advisor in 2015 having previously served for 30 years in the Metropolitan Police, the Content: last 25 as a detective. He subsequently spent several years working within police Why is safeguarding so important? Safeguarding is nurturing, intelligence, leading a team assessing and respecting and caring for children and is essential if you are managing the risks presented by dangerous setting up a new church. Safeguarding is the action that is taken offenders living in the community. During to promote the welfare of children and protect them from harm. this period, he was part of London multi agency steering committee overseeing In this session, Andy will explore the definition of Safeguarding, the introduction of multi-agency public the importance of promoting a safe environment for all, and an protection arrangements in London. He understanding of the role the Church plays in responding to was also posted to both a covert policing Tasks & Action Points any concerns raised or identified. He will look at the Church unit, and then supervising a borough CID of England Safeguarding policy, the implementation of that team, investigation acquisitive crime, hate policy nationally and through Diocese including the role of crime, domestic abuse, and overseeing the Diocesan Safeguarding teams. development of DC’s.

Lastly, he will consider lessons learnt from past failings both from within the Church and from other organisations.

158 159 GDPR: Top tips Notes & Sketches Chapter 24 when setting up Session 3 a new church

Aim:

• To understand the principles of the GDPR • To know how this will affect the church plants • To put in place the procedures needed • To have a Q&A time Matt Fien

Content: Matt is the Data Protection Specialist for HTB Group, coming on board just before the The session will focus on how the principles of the GDPR function GDPR took effect to help manage and direct to ensure peoples’ personal data is protected. You will learn the implementation of the new Regulation how to remain compliant with the GDPR whilst carrying out the across the four charities. He is qualified day-to-day activities of a new church plant. We will also look as a Data Protection Practitioner from PDP at how to recognise and deal with Data Subject requests and Training, an industry leader in privacy data breaches. By the end of the session you will have a basic compliance qualifications. Before working understanding of what’s required when starting a new church, for HTB Group, Matt was in Australia how to avoid the pitfalls that lead to bad data practices and where he worked for a couple of law firms how to create a good privacy foundation when it comes to doing a stint in Finance law, Elder law and growing your operations. Construction Litigation. Matt also enjoys acting and has a passion for storytelling. Tasks & Action Points

160 161 The Heart of Notes & Sketches Chapter 25 the HTB Network Session 1

Aim:

• To understand more about the HTB Network • To understand what distinguishes planting in the HTB Network • To hear about the plant to St Peter’s Brighton Archie Coates • Q&A

Content: Archie planted and leads St Peter’s Brighton. He studied Theology at Oxford University What is distinctive about planting within the HTB Network? and was Associate Vicar at HTB before As well as all the questions to do with planting in general – going to Brighton in 2009 to pioneer the team, priorities, for example – is there anything about planting work there – and subsequently the church within this Network that is particular? What can I expect from planting from St Peter’s itself, within Brighton the Network, and what are they expecting from me? In this and also Hastings, Portsmouth and Crawley. session, we will look at these questions together. In 2015 he became an Honorary Canon at Chichester Cathedral. Archie is married to Archie will touch on his experience on leading St Peter’s Sam and they have four children. Brighton, the first HTB Chruch Plant outside London and what his heart is for the HTB Network going forward. Tasks & Action Points

162 163 Notes & Sketches Transforming Church Chapter 25 Conflict Session 2

Aim:

• To understand the potential areas of conflict in a church context • To learn the best ways to deal with conflict Bishop Graham Tomlin Content:

Peace-making and reconciliation are key ideas in the teaching Graham is the Bishop of Kensington and of Jesus, but in Christian communities they are often a weak President of St Mellitus College in London. element of the culture. So, when there is disagreement and Among past roles he has served as tension amongst Christians, they can find themselves struggling. Chaplain of Jesus College Oxford and Vice In this session, Bishop Graham will address these issues and Principal of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, where talk about the biblical ways of dealing with conflict. He will he taught within the Theology Faculty of share some of his own experiences about how he has dealt Oxford University on Historical Theology. with change within the church and the lessons he has learnt He has lectured in churches and universities when dealing with tricky situations. in countries across the world and was very involved in the response to the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017. He is the author of many books and articles, including The Provocative Church, Looking through the Cross, The Tasks & Action Points Widening Circle, and most recently, Bound to be Free: The Paradox of Freedom and Luther’s Gospel: Reimagining the World. He is married to Janet and has two married children and three grandchildren.

164 165 Chapter 26 Graduation! Session 1

Graduation is a time for us to look back over the year of Prayer and Prophesy the Accelerator Programme and look forward to the future and your church plant. It is a time to celebrate where you To mark the final session of the Accelerator have come to and mark the end of the formal Accelerator Programme, we set aside time to pray for Programme sessions. The day will consist of presentations, a one another, prophesy and listen to what special lunch and a time for prayer and prophecies. Holy Spirit is speaking over each one of you. It is a very powerful time which is often very moving! Presentations

These are always a highlight of the year as you will present All team, spouses and families are on your church plant to the cohort, the CRT Team and notable welcome, and we look forward to guests. The ‘Church Plant Presentations’ are put together by having you all there! you (and your team) and they will be exceptionally useful when speaking to potential employees, team, the diocese and donors, giving you a very clear idea of the main areas of your church plant. It is an opportunity to gather all your thoughts together and consolidate the many things you have learnt on the Accelerator Programme.

There will be time set aside to work on these presentations in the second term and we will talk you through the process and show you an example made by one of the team last year. By the 29th March it is good to have slides on at least the following:

• Values • Vision • City Mapping (demographic, history, etc) • Team • 100-day plan • Income • 5 Year plan

Some churches by this time have made a film of their church plant which they like to show at Graduation too.

166 167 Summer Development Term

168 169 Relocation Leadership Church Planting September Phase Courses Commissioning 2021 Team Retreat

Depending upon your Diocese, launch and funding transfer The Summer Term sees the end to our usual To end the academic year, on Tuesday 27th July we would Many previous plant teams have benefited by agreement, we anticipate you and your team may be Monday meetings and becomes a time for be delighted if you and your team could join us up on Main taking their plant teams away for 24-48 hrs pre- relocating to your new location as early as May or during you to finalise the preparations for your Stage at Focus to be sent out and commissioned by Nicky launch to pray, to plan and eat together. This is June or July. We recognise this transition is crucial especially church plant. It is also an essential time Gumbel and the bishop of your Diocese. an excellent opportunity to develop the vision if you have family to relocate. We would highly recommend for you to develop your leadership skills together and start to articulate the ideal culture that you aim to settle into your new home and give yourself as through: It is a fantastic opportunity for you to be prayed for by the and values of the team and subsequently the much time as possible to reorientate and explore the basics of whole HTB Network and an acknowledgement of how, as church. Please be in touch with us at CRT if we life – best coffee locations, shopping areas, cinema and fun • The Coaching for Leadership Course church family, we can pray and support you. can help you locate a suitable venue for this or activities for the family as well as sign up to the dentist and • The Distinctive Leadership Course if you would find a facilitator useful to join your doctors and find a new garage to MOT the car! • The Leadership Conference 2021 team sessions, which some planters have found invaluable. From experience of past planters, please do not underestimate We believe through equipping you with how key this pre-launch transition period of settling in is for these in-depth leadership skills, you will CRT is here to support you in any way we can, the family unit and team. Although there may be continued know yourself better, how to lead your so please do get in touch if you would like 1-1 building works on your building, we would recommend you congregation and fulfil your vision. meetings with our team this term or if you need book a holiday in July/August to ensure you begin the church any help and advice. We are cheering you on plant as refreshed as possible, even if your instincts tell you during these final and critical run up months! there is too much to organise for the launch – holiday is vital! See our Online Toolkit for our top tips for moving to a new city and the final preparations before your plant include:

• Moving to a New City • Prayer Walking the City • Settling in with the Family • Setting up Remote Office Working • IT Set Up • Local Press Coverage and launch services

170 171 Exposure Opportunities

We really see all the below as a vital part of the training Do you have a Spiritual Director? and encourage you, and your teams, to gain maximum exposure to the available options. We believe it is important During your time at HTB, we advise that you as a future leader you have the experience of all the below find a coach and a spiritual mentor to guide as your future role may require this. We continue to pray you on your journey. We believe that having that God will equip, envision and empower you and your the right spiritual mentor makes the world of plant through the Summer Term. difference: someone to encourage you with the church plant, give accountability, act as a role model, be a listening ear and most importantly, So far, you should have: help you flourish in your faith. A spiritual mentor will affirm and encourage you in your mission • Visited a church plant and they genuinely want the best for you. • Attended the School of Preaching • Been to the Clergy Marriage Retreat

During the Summer term, we encourage you to:

• Host on an Alpha Course. • Volunteer with the Homeless Shelter (Wednesdays and Fridays). If you would like any more information about • Attend the Marriage Course. how to start any of the following opportunities, • Help with the Pre-Marriage Course as a support please do get in touch with Pippa Hawkins and couple of a helper. she will be more than happy to help you! • Visit a Prison. • Support the chaplain at the hospitals. [email protected] • Investigate the following courses at HTB:

• The Money Course - supporting people to get on top of their finances. • The Post-Abortion Healing Course - for women who have been through an abortion. • The Bereavement Journey - helping people work through grief and loss. • Restored Lives - supporting those who are divorced or going through a divorce.

172 173 Coaching for Leadership What’s included in the programme?

Understand yourself, develop your Our ‘Coaching for Leadership’ programme communication, lead others well and handle equips leaders, directors and senior conflict in a way which strengthens team managers to develop their skills in coaching, trust. delegation and group facilitation, with the goal of improving business performance. Coaching for Leadership runs regularly at our facilities in Hammersmith. The five-day programme is arranged over six weeks These 5 full day sessions will work through how to create a so that delegates can practice and apply strong, motivated and committed staff team, which releases their new coaching skills at work between each member to their full potential. Establishing a coaching sessions. Each delegate also receives culture in your church will require your senior management two one-to-one coaching sessions with team to be able to both understand, and deliver, a coaching one of our senior coaches. Coaching for approach in their own line management and their delivery Leadership equips leaders with powerful of team meetings. Coaching for Leadership can equip your skills, including: Senior Management Team to do both, while addressing some key communication or relational challenges that often exist within the senior team that may be undermining a church’s • Creating an effective coaching culture performance. It will also equip you to plan the change process • Coaching and empowering the people that may be required for long-term culture change. you manage • Understanding yourself by using a profiling tool (C-Me) “Our most senior management have emerged with a suite • Communicating effectively with of embedded leadership skills that are producing real people that are different from you results - greater managerial confidence, better teamwork, • Managing in challenging but improved employee engagement, more effective delegation motivating ways and accountability, as well as improved communication.” • Delegating effectively • Making inspiring leadership Jonathan Gill, Operations Partner, MJ Mapp presentations • Facilitating effective meeting

“After 23 years in the Army it might have been easy to The programme is approved and certified by think I knew a lot about people and how to get the best out the Institute of Leadership and Management of them. Coaching for Leadership has given me another and counts as 40 hours towards the essential dimension to my understanding of people, how International Coach Federation’s Associate they work and how to get the very best with, for and from Certified Coach accreditation. them.”

Jonny Wrench, Wilsher Group

174 175 Church Planting Course

The Church Planting course is designed to equip church How long does the course run for? planters to prepare themselves and their teams for planting. The course will benefit those in the year leading The course runs each academic term up to their plant. When they start the course, they should starting in January, May and September. have a specific place, a date and clear authority to plant e.g. approval from their Bishop. Spring Plant Course 2021 Dates:

21 January 2021 – Planning Course content: 28 January 2021 – Growing The course is not so much about theology, which is assumed, and more about the practicalities of planting. At the end of the 04 February 2021 – Going course, church planters present their planting vision, strategic plan, budget and growth plans to one another and a panel of 11 February 2021 – Resourcing experienced clergy. The course follows a learning community pattern where participants learn from each other as much 18 February 2021 - Half term as they learn from the input they are receiving. This cohort of 25 February 2021 - Half term planters continues to support each other after the course in the planting phase and beyond. 04 March 2021 – Leading

Each day begins with breakfast at 9.30am, with the first main 11 March 2021 – Establishing session beginning at 10am. There are two main sessions with lunch provided at 1pm. The sessions include taught input 18 March 2021 - Presenting from experienced practitioners, book review discussions, video interviews with church planters and practical work on strategic plans and exercises to draw out each planter’s Where does the course take place? context. Homework will be set to make the most of each session. The course will be held at St Edmund the King, Lombard Street, London EC3V 9EA, The course is led by the Right Revd Ric Thorpe, Bishop of a 2-minute walk from Bank or Monument Islington, who is responsible for the London Diocese goal of Station. creating 100 New Worshipping Communities by 2020. He is also a Tutor in Church Planting at St Mellitus College and former Rector of St Paul’s Shadwell. Contact

Course Speakers: Please email: [email protected] The course is overseen by Ric Thorpe and run by John Valentine, or visit: Andy Blacknell and Toria Grey. Biographies for the three stmellitus.org/church-planting-course leaders can be found by going to the following link, at the to book a place on the course. bottom of the page under ‘Associates’: ccx.org.uk/about/

176 177 Prison Ministry

What is involved in assisting with a Prison Visit? If you decide to volunteer with Prison Ministry in the Summer Term, you will be able to help on The Accelerator Programme offers an opportunity to gain experience of prison an Alpha Course. This would involve: chaplaincy, prison ministry with inmates and learning about the aftercare through the ministry of Caring for Ex-Offenders (CFEO). • Visit the Alpha course. • Meet with other prison volunteers. Prison ministry regularly requires pastoral responses to issues such as; • Visit other Christian courses running in addiction, depression, mental health, broken relationships, suicide and anger prison. management. The prison chaplain is often the first port of call in these areas • Gain insight into Prayer ministry with and sometimes must break the news of a family bereavement to an inmate and prisoners. broker reconciliation and forgiveness. These are key transferable pastoral skills that will be invaluable when ministering it, not only in a prison context but also in urban priority areas that are outside of the prison system. Where is it held?

When it is running and how long for? The Accelerator Programme offers future church plant leaders several opportunities to A morning session will involve the following: experience prison ministry and the aftercare within two large London prisons: HMP 1. Meet the Managing Prison Chaplain of HMP Wormwood Scrubs or Wormwood Scrubs and HMP/YOI Feltham. HMP Feltham Prison. 2. Sit in on the daily briefing meeting of Senior prison staff. 3. Meet with the Governor. Contact 4. Shadow one of the chaplaincy team as they carry out the daily statutory duties such as; If you would like to get involved, please contact: Paul Cowley – [email protected]

• Visit new prisoners transferred within the last 12 hours. You will need a DBS for this part of the course • Visit prisoners on segregation. and security checks may be taken. • Visit the Vulnerable Prisoner Unit. • Visit the Health Care Centre inmates. • Engage with other faith leaders within the chaplaincy team.

178 179 HTB Alpha Prayer Room

Originally developed as a short course at HTB in London, Alpha at HTB HTB Prayer KC7am Prayer + Worship (KC8am whilst in lockdown in 1990 Nicky Gumbel took over running Alpha and found via Zoom) that many people outside of the church wanted to explore Come and join We believe Prayer & Worship are the base the Christian faith. Alpha now runs in every part of the global of the HTB volcano – the core that helps set Each week we gather for an hour of powerful, Spirit-filled church, including the Catholic Church, the Orthodox Church Currently running online, register to join our spiritual temperature as a church and prayer and worship, helping to influence the destiny of our and all mainline Protestant denominations. a new group starting regularly here: all of our activities. We are convinced that church and nation! www.htb.org/alpha prayer is the start and sustainer of every Alpha has since become a global ministry with over 24 million kingdom endeavor and so prioritise it with Coming together as a community to pray and worship at the people having tried it over 169 countries and it has been HTB are kicking off morning and evening time, physical space, people and resources. dawn of a new day is one of the most powerful things you translated into over 100 different languages. Since then, it has Alpha online from Wednesday 9th can do to influence your environment. Every Tuesday during been such a privilege to see lives and communities transformed September. They’re launching 5 courses HTB 24/7 Prayer Room term time we gather in the main church at Brompton Road to encounter Jesus, pray for the many ministries of the church as in the name of Jesus through Alpha. every week from there so the final one will The HTB 24/7 Prayer Room has been the well as the city, nation and world. launch on Wednesday 7th October. Each ‘engine room’ of the church for over 8 years. Alpha takes place across eleven sessions with the option of one will run for 11 weeks. The room is designed to inspire and equip Time: Tuesdays, 7.00 – 8.00 am (Term Time) a day or weekend away in the middle. Each session includes people to pray BY PRAYING! Location: The Spring, HTB Brompton Road food, a short talk and a discussion at the end where you can The Alpha Weekend Away Contact: [email protected] share your thoughts. Individuals are able to book a prayer slot for At the moment, this has changed to ‘Alpha an hour or more through our website, after Kingdom Come Alpha runs primarily in person but due to the Covid-19 Saturday’! Each Alpha Saturday takes which they will receive email / text confir- pandemic in 2020, it is also available to run online. place after week 7, ‘How does God guide mation with information on how to access the Kingdom Come is are agenda free nights where we allow the us’ - so that date is dependent on when room. Spirit to lead us as we move through the evening. We gather As part of the Accelerator Programme, we would encourage you start hosting. as a whole church to passionately seek God and cry out for you to become a host on Alpha at least one term this year Time: 24-7 (with short ‘breaks’ for room im- Heaven to come to earth. It has been particularly exciting to to get a better understanding of how it works and the guest Contact: provements) see the youth and young adults of the church mobilised to experience. Location: The 24/7 Prayer Hut, by the Car pray in this space. If you are interested in hosting on the Alpha Park at HTB Brompton Road What does a host do? Course, please contact: Jemima Adjei Date: Twice a term – one Tuesday / one Thursday [email protected] Monthly Day of Prayer & Fasting Time: 6.45pm, starting at 7:15 - 9pm The host’s main role is to develop friendships with guests, have Location: HTB Brompton Road fun and facilitate the discussion in the group. Hosting is about We meet monthly for a day of prayer and being genuinely interested in people’s lives and in what they fasting – during lockdown, this has involved 11:02 have to say, as well as holding the balance in allowing all those meeting on Zoom at the start of each hour in the group to be able to share their thoughts and opinions. www.alpha.org.uk (between 8am and 7pm) for 12minutes to Luke 11:02 “Your Kingdom Come…” pray. Fasting is optional! At the start of most terms, in the lead up to Alpha commencing, we call the church to 21 days of prayer by asking them to set their phone alarms to 11:02 and take a moment to pray for God’s Kingdom to come over our city and for 3 friends to come to know Jesus.

180 181 The Pre-Marriage and Marriage Courses

What is involved in assisting with The Marriage Course When do they run and how long for? and acting as a Support Couple or a host:

The Pre-Marriage Course needs lots of Support Couples for physical and The Pre-Marriage Course online courses, and about 20 or so Course Hosts for a physical course while • Support Couple Training/Team Night The Marriage Course needs around 10 Course Hosts. • 5 Thursday evenings each term • 7 – 9.30pm (prayer meeting at 6.30pm) at HTB Being a Support Couple and being Hosts can be combined or done separately. Onslow Square

For physical and online courses: The Marriage Course Support Couples for The Pre-Marriage Course: Support Couples host between • 7 Monday evenings each term one and three couples individually, either for dinner at their home or remotely, • 7 - 9.30pm (prayer meeting at 6.30pm) at HTB to discuss their Couple Survey. Support Couples should have been married Onslow Square for 2 years, have done The Marriage Course and have attended our Training Evening. This is a fantastic way to invest in your own marriage as well as to sow into a new one.

For physical courses only: Course Hosts for The Marriage Course or The Pre-Marriage Course: Course Contact Hosts can be couples or singles, who attend the course evenings and host a If you would like to get involved, group of guest couples. They welcome the guests, have dinner with them, help please contact Katherine Wells: serve refreshments and generally support them on the evening. This is a great [email protected] way to get a feel for how the course is run as you can hear all the course content and see the format of the course.

182 183 CRT Online Resource Toolkit

The CRT Online Toolkit is designed specifically with you in mind. We have made it our mission to gather and compile all the years of expertise, guides, policies and best practices HTB and other church plants have amassed.

Three main pathways Register for Access

The Departments Register for an account to have This is where you will find practical support and best practices access to the CRT Online Toolkit. categorised in their respective departments (i.e. Media, HR, Finance, Legal, Giving, IT, etc.). The departments will include crtrust.org/toolkit best practices, set up guides, policy example downloads and recommendations.

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186 187 Developing the Leaders Around You John C. Maxwell Why do some people achieve great personal success, yet never succeed All I Want is You: A collection of Christian reflections in building a business or making an impact in their organisation? John C. Sandy Millar Maxwell knows the answer. “The greatest leadership principle that I have This collection of fascinating stories, anecdotes and illustrations from Sandy ever learned in over twenty-five years of leadership,” says Maxwell, “is that Millar’s teachings is for anyone who shares Sandy’s energy and love for those closest to the leader will determine the success level of that leader.” It’s life and Jesus. This book is a storehouse of Christian wisdom from one of not enough for a leader to have vision, energy, drive, and conviction. If you its most respected practitioners. In short paragraphs, he talks about Jesus, want to see your dream come to fruition, you must learn how to develop the God’s call to intimacy, the power of the Holy Spirit and the teaching of the leaders around you. Whether you’re the leader of a non-profit organisation, Bible, alongside more personal stories from his Scottish upbringing, his time small business, or Fortune 500 company, Developing the Leaders Around as a criminal barrister, his family life, his love of poetry and literature & his You can help you to take others to the limits of their potential and your experiences of God at work... organisation a whole new level.

NIV Alpha Bible In One Year: Paperback & App Dirty Glory: Go Where Your Best Prayers Take You The Alpha course is a great way to find out more about Christianity. Now Pete Greig the Alpha Bible In One Year offers you a practical way to get to know the For many Christians, prayer is an obligation that has little bearing on everyday Bible better. Starting in January, the whole Bible is divided up into easy daily life. The story of the 24/7 prayer movement demonstrates in gripping detail readings to take you through the year. With an introduction and daily online how prayer is far more than an obligation and how God is far more interested commentary from Alpha founder Nicky Gumbel, reading the Alpha Bible in prayer than we are. Continuing to chronicle the life and extraordinary In One Year is designed to be a community experience that will inspire and ministry of the 24/7 prayer movement for a readership anxiously awaiting equip you in building lifelong faith on firm foundations. www.bibleinoneyear. this title, Pete Greig tells story after story of God’s faithful interaction with org human prayer to change lives and cultures.

Culture Making: Recovering our creative calling Get It Across Loud And Clear Andy Crouch Ali Martin Crouch unpacks the complexities of how culture works and gives us tools A practical resource to equip and develop public speakers to communicate for cultivating and creating culture. He navigates the dynamics of cultural the word of God effectively. How can we take the Bible and help it to come change and probes the role and efficacy of our various cultural gestures and alive for others? How can we ensure that church talks aren’t just something postures. Keen biblical exposition demonstrates that creating culture is central people have to endure but instead are opportunities for people to understand to the whole scriptural narrative, the ministry of Jesus and the call to the church. and respond to the word of God? This book is packed full of practical tips to A model of his premise, this landmark book is sure to be a rallying cry for a enable speakers to refine and develop their ability to communicate. new generation of culturally creative Christians. Discover your calling and join the culture makers. Good To Great Jim Collins Courageous Leadership After a five-year research project, Collins concludes that good to great can Bill Hybels and does happen. In this book, he uncovers the underlying variables that This is far more than another book on leadership strategies and techniques. enable any type of organisation to make the leap from good to great while You’ll find those topics in here, to be sure. But beyond them, you’ll find the very other organisations remain only good. Rigorously supported by evidence, his essence of one of today’s foremost Christian leaders—his fervent commitment findings are surprising - at times even shocking - to the modern mind. to evangelism and discipleship and his zeal to inspire fellow church leaders even as he seeks to keep growing as a leader himself. If unchurched people matter to you . . . if you love seeing believers serve passionately with their The Blessed Church spiritual gifts . . . if God’s heartbeat for the church is your heartbeat as well . Robert Morris . . then this book is a must. Courageous Leadership will convince you to lead In The Blessed Church, Pastor Morris of Gateway Church explores how a with all your might, all your skill, and all your faith. And it will give you the church can be fast-growing and spiritually-enriching—and still healthy. With tools to do just that. the powerful stories, candour, and humour he’s known for, Morris shows how every component of your church—including mission, government, teaching, worship, small groups, giving, and outreach—can receive God’s richest blessings. 188 189 The Church On Its Knees: Dynamic prayer in the local church Jeremy Jennings From Vision to Action: Practical steps for church growth The story of how prayer developed at Holy Trinity Brompton, a dynamic Tricia Neill church in central London and home of the Alpha course. Written by Jeremy From Vision to Action is a practical and encouraging ‘how-to guide’ for Jennings, this book is a practical approach to dynamic prayer in the local turning vision into reality and managing church growth. Tricia Neill draws church. more than nineteen years’ experience at HTB and Alpha to produce a book that offers valuable insights for churches of all sizes. Updated and expanded, this edition includes new material on how to form a vision. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable Patrick Lencioni In The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Patrick Lencioni once again offers a Live, Love, Lead: Your best is yet to come! leadership fable that is as enthralling and instructive as his first two best– Brian Houston selling books, The Five Temptations of a CEO and The Four Obsessions of an Whether you are searching for your calling or wholeheartedly pursuing your Extraordinary Executive. This time, he turns his keen intellect and storytelling life’s purpose, Brian Houston’s transformative approach to life will help you power to the fascinating, complex world of teams. navigate a faith path that is all your own and discover unique gifts tailored perfectly for your journey. In this straightforward book, Brian Houston shares his own life-tested experiences and the powerful biblical truths he’s learned The Marriage Course that will enable you to live fully, love completely, and lead boldly - the Nicky and Sila Lee hallmarks of Jesus’ time on earth. When it comes to life with Jesus, there is no How can we be happily married to one person for the whole of our lives? doubt - your best is yet to come! How do we resolve conflict? How can we discover and rediscover sexual intimacy? Full of practical advice, this best-selling book is easy to read and is designed to prepare, build and even mend marriages. Preaching Tim Keller Most Christians - including pastors - struggle to talk about their faith in a The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs way that applies the power of the Christian gospel to change people’s lives. John C Maxwell Timothy Keller is known for his insightful, down-to-earth sermons and talks The path to leadership begins with a question only few of us ask: How do that help people understand themselves, encounter Jesus and apply the Bible I lead myself? John Maxwell presents twenty-six insights, not just for those to their lives. In this accessible guide for pastors and laypeople alike, Keller who aspire to positions of leadership but also for veteran leaders who aim to helps readers learn to present the Christian message of grace in a more build and improve upon the steps that led them to the front of the line. Sound engaging, passionate and compassionate way. leadership will impact any endeavour, but sound leaders are prepared for risk-and importantly, failure-just as they point the way toward achievement. With application exercises and a “Mentoring Moment” to accompany each Refuel chapter, The Leadership Handbook presents a road map for a path many Kate Middleton may cross but few choose to follow. “A leader,” counsels Maxwell, “never Stress is a massive issue in our 21st century culture, and the Church is by no has to recover from a good start.” means exempt. There is some evidence that people involved with the church might be at particular risk of stress related illness and burn out. How do we get the balance right when there’s so much more than work and life to A Call Less Ordinary juggle? How do we manage the tension between our passion for God and Rich Wilson our other responsibilities? How do we manage to reach our full potential This is a helpful insight a tool for anyone working with Students. without burning out? Good stress management isn’t about living a half-life - it WHAT IS MY CALLING? It is a question wrestled with in every stage of life. is possible to remain motivated, passionate and on fire, without constantly You might know that God has a plan for you, but how do you know what it is? being on the brink of burnout. Kate Middleton’s biblical self-help book will Rich Wilson shares his journey of pursuing calling through adventure and help readers to identify understand the dangers of stress and offers practical adversity. After discovering his own calling as a student, he now encourages tips to reduce and manage stress in a biblical way. many others to do the same through his work with Fusion and beyond. This book will challenge and guide you as you embrace your own call less ordinary.

190 191 Planting Churches, Changing Communities David Stroud Center Church Europe A hands on guide to successful Church Planting. Have you ever wondered Tim Keller what you need to do to start a church? Or to become the sort of leader who Today many pastors are struggling to adapt to a post-Christian culture without could? Packed full of road tested practical wisdom for every would-be church abandoning orthodox theology. How do we communicate the concepts of planter and leader, David Stroud draws on twenty years of experience in grace and substitutionary atonement in our globalized culture and context? planting churches and training others, to put together a powerful book that In Center Church Europe, Timothy Keller offers challenging insights and will instruct and inspire you to play your part in building the church. provocative questions based on over twenty years of ministry in New York City. This book outlines a theological vision for ministry, applying classic doctrines to our time and place. Chapter 5 focuses on the Cultural Crisis of Buildings for Mission the Church, the responses, models we can assume and cultural engagement Nigel Walter and Andrew Mottram through blended insights. This practical and comprehensive guide offers essential and expert advice on every aspect of caring for churches. A money-saving handbook for all who care for and maintain church buildings, it provides expert advice from Designing Brand Identity a leading church architect and an experienced heritage buildings specialist. Alina Wheeler From research and analysis through brand strategy, design development through application design, and identity standards through launch and Black Box Thinking: Marginal Gains and the Secrets of High governance, Designing Brand Identity, Fourth Edition offers brand managers, Performance: The Surprising Truth About Success marketers, and designers a proven, universal five-phase process for creating Matthew Syed and implementing effective brand identity. Black Box Thinking is a new approach to high performance, a means of finding an edge in a complex and fast-changing world. It is not just about sport, but has powerful implications for business and politics, as well as for You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit parents and students. In other words, all of us. James A.K. Smith James K. A. Smith explains how our life, worship, and daily habits shape our loves and desires. He shows that God has given his grace through his Word Becoming a Resonant Leader and sacraments, received in the context of the church’s worship, to shape our Annie McKee and Richard Boyatzis desires and help us to live the Christian life. This book will help you to think McKee, Boyatzis, and Frances Johnston share vivid, real-life stories illuminating about how prayer fits into your daily life and will make you more aware of how people can develop emotional intelligence, build resonance, and renew how God is present with you to draw you to love. themselves. Reflecting twenty years of longitudinal research and practical wisdom with executives and leaders around the world, this new book is organized around a core of experience-tested exercises. If God will Provide, why do we have to ask for Money? Rick Dunham If God will Provide, why do we have to ask for Money?’ is a truly fresh and The Connected Church: A Social Media Communication Strategy biblical perspective on our mandate as leaders to challenge God’s people to Guide for Churches, Nonprofits and Individuals in Ministry fund His work in the world today. And it is challenging! The work leaders do Natchi Lazarus in developing the funds for their ministries is a vital part for their ministry. This We are in a new era of communication. The internet and social media have book helps explain why and how. changed the way we connect and communicate with each other. As the body of Christ, it is important that we understand these changes, so that we can effectively serve others. The four-part communication model and the six-step Keeping Faith in Fundraising framework presented in this book will help you successfully implement a Peter Harris & Rod Wilson social media and digital ministry program, laying a strong foundation for the Fundraising has always been an essential element of the Christian life: churches, future of your ministry. schools, and many other organisations rely on it to function. But it is a risky enterprise, fraught with questions and challenges. How can Christians raise funds with integrity? In this book Peter Harris and Rod Wilson, experienced Thief Prisoner Soldier Priest fundraisers themselves, bring fundraising within the scope of normal Christian Paul Cowley life and work. They consider fundraising in light of the relationships that lie This remarkable and touching account of Paul Cowley’s early years, from at its heart with God, with creation, and with ourselves. After first laying a thief to prisoner, soldier and, eventually, priest, should inspire anyone who biblical foundation, Harris and Wilson develop seven themes central to the feels their life is out of control. It is, by turns, a dramatic, traumatic and comic giving and receiving of money: integration, people, work, success, need, story, yet one that stands as a testament to how God offers hope to all who method, and money. 192 have the courage to respond. 193 Sacred Privilege Preach the Word Kay Warren Greg Haslam Drawing on more than forty years in ministry in every possible size church, Preach the Word! conveys a deep and passionate vision to bring powerful, Kay provides encouraging principles and life lessons, along with intimate purposeful and Spirit-filled preaching back into the life of the Church. A wide personal stories, that will give readers the confidence needed to lead and live range of outstanding teachers, preachers and communicators were invited well. Life as a pastor’s wife offers meaningful opportunities to play a significant to share their skills, wisdom and strongest convictions on a host of themes part in God’s work, to witness and participate in the beauty of changed lives. related to this great task, and a large number of delegates gathered each Yet it also carries the potential for deep wounds and great conflict that can month at Westminster Chapel, London to give them an enthusiastic hearing. drain the joy out of service. Whether excited, struggling, or feeling broken and tired, every pastor’s wife will find hope and encouragement for their calling in Kay’s warm and wise words. The Provocative Church Graham Tomlin Sometimes Christians assume that people ‘out there’ are eager to listen to Unreached what the Church has to offer. But why should those we try to evangelize want Tim Chester to hear the gospel? Surely people will only be intrigued by Christian life and Think of the thriving evangelical churches in your area, and the chances are community when they see something provocative or attractive. Then they will that they will be in the nice areas of town and their leaders will be middle want to know what’s going on. The Provocative Church offers a liberating class. Unreached is about reaching deprived, urban, working-class areas, understanding of evangelism as a corporate activity, in which all the gifts often estates or housing schemes. It offers us the experience of the Reaching needed to enact the life of the Kingdom - to stir people into asking, What the Unreached working group, an informal network of Christian leaders from does this mean? are spread throughout the whole Church. It encourages different parts of the UK. This book doesn’t claim to offer the final word, but it the development of a theology of conversion that sees beyond ‘becoming presents us with a vision of what can be done. a Christian’ to bring each individual life increasingly under the rule of God.

Ordinary Miracles: Mess, Meals and Meeting Jesus in Unexpected Come Holy Spirit Places David Pytches and John Wimber Chris Lane Many churches have experienced renewal and are seeking to know God When Chris Lane and his friends planted a church on an inner-city estate more deeply and share His power and love with others. The gifts of the Holy notorious for crime and deprivation, they could not imagine the rollercoaster Spirit are an integral part of this process, but are often neglected or used ride that awaited. Committed to loving and living in one place - the Langworthy with little confidence. “I have become convinced that signs and wonders estate in Salford - they have spent 18 years seeing Jesus’ hope and healing are a proper element in the ministry of all the people of God”, writes David transforming even the darkest and most desperate situations. Pytches. In this clear and practical handbook he offers guidelines for learning At the heart of Ordinary Miracles is an understanding of Jesus’ meal table, to minister in the power of the Spirit, drawing on his own wide experience. and how Langworthy Community Church has seen the most unlikely people welcomed into Jesus’ Kingdom as they share at His table and invite others to do the same. Be encouraged by the radical inclusivity of Jesus’ invitation and Leading and Shaping a Discipleship Culture the remarkable miracles that happen when we eat with Him! Cris Rogers This action-packed short booklet argues that authentic, enabling, empowering leadership is vital for creating a healthy culture within churches. It draws on Simple Church experience and observation of disciple-making churches to lay out a practical, Rainer and Geiger six-part process for encouraging a culture of whole-life discipleship. Simple Church encourages Christian leaders to adopt the Bible’s clear, simple model of discipleship instead of the complex, program-based ministries that have become common in many churches today. Rainer and Geiger offer four The Complete Book of Discipleship: On Being and Making Followers areas that can help churches simplify: Clarity, Movement, Alignment, and of Christ Focus, which will guide Christians back to the simple gospel-sharing methods Bill Hull of Jesus. No bells or whistles required. Well organized and readily accessible, The Complete Book of Discipleship pulls together into one convenient, comprehensive volume relevant topics to discipleship such as, spiritual growth, transformation, spiritual disciplines, Practice the Presence of God discipleship in the local church and beyond. It’s a call for churches, pastors, Brother Lawrence and all who claim the name of Christ to return to a true, biblical understanding This book challenges us to think that God’s presence isn’t something we bring of what it means to follow Christ: personal transformation into the likeness of upon for others but something that exists and can be experienced in our daily Christ. Hull reminds the reader that it’s not enough to know about Jesus and lives. his commands, Christians must live out those commands and mature in faith. 194 195 Church in Hard Places The Unquenchable Worshipper Mez McConnell & Mike McKinley Matt Redman In recent years, Christians have shown an increased commitment to helping A refreshing and original look at worshipping God. Using many examples the poor. But this renewed interest in poverty alleviation is doomed to fail from the Bible and drawing on his own experience as a worship leader, if it’s not rooted in the local church—God’s established means of drawing Matt Redman shows us how to make our worship more meaningful. The downtrodden people into a transformative relationship with himself. Unquenchable Worshipper reveals the heart of a worshipper and the passion Emphasizing the priority of the gospel, Mez McConnell and Mike McKinley, of a person and people who seek to go deeper in their relationship with both pastors with fruitful ministries among the poor, offer biblical guidelines Christ. and practical strategies for planting, revitalizing, and growing faithful churches in hard places—in your own community and around the world. iGen Jean Twenge Practical Church Management iGen is crucial reading to understand how the children, teens, and young James Behrens adults born in the mid-1990s and later are vastly different from their Practical Church Management provides essential information on all aspects Millennial predecessors, and from any other generation. With generational of modern church life. Its clear layout and practical approach has made it divides wider than ever, parents, educators, and employers have an urgent a favourite for clergy, church wardens, PCC treasurers, Gift Aid secretaries, need to understand today’s rising generation of teens and young adults. Jean PCC members, and all others involved with church management, both at the Twenge collates the data on a generation and not only surprises readers parish and at diocesan level. This third edition incorporates new law and with astonishing discoveries, but also helps us to make sense of what to do guidance in a range of areas, including the Ordinariate, lead theft, chancel with those discoveries. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in repair liability, 24-7 prayer, food banks, smoking, bishop’s mission orders, understanding youth and students. and several other topics. The book is full of useful contact details and web site addresses for further reference. The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry John Mark Comer Canoeing the Mountains Who are you becoming? That was the question nagging pastor and author Tod Bolsinger John Mark Comer. By outward metrics, everything appeared successful. But Drawing from his extensive experience as a pastor and consultant, Tod inwardly, things weren’t pretty. So he turned to a trusted mentor for guidance Bolsinger brings decades of expertise in guiding churches and organizations and heard these words: ‘Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life. Hurry is the through uncharted territory. He offers a combination of illuminating insights great enemy of the spiritual life.’ It wasn’t the response he expected, but it and practical tools to help you reimagine what effective leadership looks continues to be the answer he needs. like in our rapidly changing world. If you’re going to scale the mountains of ministry, you need to leave behind canoes and find new navigational tools. Reading this book will set you on the right course to lead with confidence and We Need To Talk About Race: The black experience in white majority courage. churches Ben Lindsay From the UK Church’s complicity in the transatlantic slave trade to the Love Church whitewashing of Christianity throughout history, the Church has a lot to Tim Matthews answer for when it comes to race relations. Christianity has been dubbed the This book tells the story of the process of moving to Bournemouth to set up white man’s religion, yet the Bible speaks of an impartial God and shows us a new church from scratch, on the back of numerous similar failed attempts a diverse body of believers. It’s time for the Church to start talking about race. in London, and the bumpy and scary journey to success St Swithun’s has Ben Lindsay offers eye-opening insights into the black religious experience, travelled since. Tim demonstrates, through his story, how he has pushed challenging the status quo in white majority churches. through failure and disappointment with tenacity to trust in God and his plan and timing - and how hundreds of people are discovering faith in Jesus Christ as a result. Lean Impact: How to Innovate for Radically Greater Social Good Ann Mei Chang Social change is far more complicated than building a new app. It requires Paul’s Missionary: Methods Or Ours? more listening, more care, and more stakeholders. To make a lasting differ- Roland Allen ence, solutions must be embraced by beneficiaries, address root causes, and In this book, Roland Allen invites us to look at the missionary work of the include an engine that can accelerate growth to reach the scale of the need. Apostle Paul with fresh eyes and an igniting perspective that is strikingly Lean Impact offers bold ideas to reach audacious goals through customer in- relevant to the greatest challenges we are facing today in modern missions. sight, rapid experimentation and iteration, and a relentless pursuit of impact. He offers a well of insight from the methodology of Paul that will focus and 196 unite us as we draw nearer to our goal of fulfilling the Great Commission. 197 The CRT Accelerator Programme Handbook 2020/21

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