Counties Church Growth
Church support and revitalisation play a key role in our vision to make Jesus known
Equipping Churches
Counties’ church support programmes inspire and equip local church leadership teams. Making Jesus known across your regions and nations.
You can receive in two areas:
Church Growth
Church Revitalisation
Church Growth
Counties aim is to equip and empower evangelistic effectiveness in local churches. We support and build up diverse church leadership teams from all backgrounds.
Since its launch in 2017, about 170 churches receive support from coordinators in England and Wales. From 2023, Counties intends to grow this support across the UK.
Whilst complementing theological training, Counties will offer church leadership teams a healthy experience. A regional community of peers to journey with. Formational relationships. All within the context of the increasing number of churches equipped by Counties.
Martin Erwin
UK
Andrew Conlan
South West England
Independent Churches
Andrew Dykes
North England & North Wales
FIEC/Affinity group
Phil Davies
South Wales
Brethren heritage assemblies
Simon Ladd
East Anglia
Association of Grace Baptist Group
John Jenkins
London & South East England
Micro-Church Group
Andy Hodson
West Midlands
Church Planting Group
Church Revitalisation
The Church Revitalisation Project is a multi-year pathway for local church growth. Designed for dwindling or ageing congregations that lack younger members or leaders. When elderly leaders struggle with challenges and change, this project aims to listen.
Since launching in 2016, 60 churches engaged with the process. The pathway involves an advisor working with you over a few years. Where required a worker can be part-funded to develop the church’s growth.
The Church Revitalisation Project involves advisors
evangelists and church leaders from Counties in the UK
experts in church properties Church Growth Trust
an international organisation growing mission focused churches in Europe GLO
You can receive discernment to strengthen your local church.
Highgate International Church’s Story
Mark Davies is an Elder at one of Church Growth Trust’s properties, Highgate International Church (HIC) London, and the Regional Training Director for GLO, one of CGT’s partners on this project. He has first-hand experience of how the project works. “We have been focusing on arresting the decline, stabilising the church, looking for some key giftings and regrowing a central core of committed workers.
“HIC has always been about building relationships and seeing people come to faith in Christ” Mark explains. “For us, it is not so much about starting new things, as building a team for the future, futureproofing our church against what was a dwindling and ageing congregation. Without the clarity that a health check brings, the mentoring and, in HIC’s case, the hands-on support from the project, our future would not be looking so positive.”
Stories of COUNTIES
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