Church planting takes more than passion - it takes clarity. This article outlines 10 essential questions every church planter needs to wrestle with before launch day. From vision and funding to disciple-making and multiplication, these questions help align your team, sharpen your strategy, and build a strong foundation for a church that lasts. Whether you're planting soon or just exploring

The next ten years will look radically different for the Uniting Church in Queensland. With the newly endorsed 2025–2035 Church Planting, Re-Planting and Revitalisation Strategy, every congregation is now invited to play a part in planting or revitalising churches across the state. What was once a distant dream—funding, coaching, prayer networks, and aligned systems—has become a Spirit-led movement. This article

Last week I saw a leader with his team at the Exponential Creating a Movement Culture Workshop in Melbourne. There were three things that I saw that were very impressive ...

Many church leaders feel torn between growing a vibrant church and meaningfully reaching their local community. In this powerful article, Paul Bartlett shares how a shift in mindset—not another program—helped him activate his congregation for everyday mission. Discover how to mobilise your people right where they already live, work, and serve. It’s time to stop building around events—and start moving

For a while we’ve talked about reaching the 84% - those not regularly connected to church. But new research from NCLS suggests the tide may be turning, with encouraging signs of spiritual re-engagement across Australia. Yet with only 2% of churchgoers fitting the biblical definition of a disciple, big questions remain: Are we truly making disciples, or just gathering attendees?

Launching a new church plant will generally be an exciting, adrenalin filled, faith inspired time. If God has called you to plant, and you know that your area needs more vibrant, soul winning, disciple making churches, what could go wrong?

A Shift In Focus Is Required. Recent trends in relation to the future of the church in Australia are far from positive with National Christian Life Survey (NCLS) reporting that

Across every state in Australia there is a grassroots movement of microchurches emerging. Like blades of grass in a Queensland lawn during summer, they are increasing in number and size daily. Microchurches can be described as small, Jesus-centred communities of disciples, who are empowered by the Spirit, compelled by the love of God, and driven by His mission to proclaim

“Multiplying will not happen on it’s own. If we aren’t choosing to make it happen, it’s probably not happening” (J. D. Greear in the Forward to “Hero Maker, Five Essential Practices for Leaders to Multiply Leaders” by Dave Ferguson and Warren Bird) I’ve come to believe that a true Kingdom vision for a church will involve multiplication rather than just

The two big items that most churches have as their primary KPI’s are, you guessed it, attendance and income, people and dollars. I’m not saying that these aren’t important. They are important in managing your church and should likely be part of it’s dashboard reporting but they don’t tell the story about how successful the church is at achieving it’s