An innovative way of tracking the the progress of church planting in Australia has recently been launched. In a project initiated by Exponential Australia, NCLS Research has been commissioned to track church plants in Australia and provide regular Reports on their research findings. The New Churches Database (https://new.churches.org.au/home ) launched in October 2023 currently contains information on over 500 new

This report provides a snapshot of ‘new churches’ which have started since 2011. The snapshot was taken from the New Churches Database on 12 April 2024 and contains information about the current status, locations and denominational affiliation of known new churches. While it is not a census and can only represent an incomplete list of new churches, this report aims

Does One Have an Advantage Over the Other? The simple answer is yes. Megachurches and other large churches can have a substantial impact on a city. They can provide resources and ministries that benefit many inside and outside the church...

How you can begin to engage with CHURCH PLANTING. Exponential Australia is working with 20 denominations and 40 networks and ministries to identify the top things we can do in this season of VUCA and Church crisis to stimulate 1,000 new churches a year by 2032.

This report draws on the Australian National Church Life Survey (NCLS) to describe aspects of local church growth or decline and church planting in 2021 and 2022. It draws on historical information about church sizes and new information provided by local church leaders about their church size and experiences with planting of new churches.

Hint: the answer is nothing to do with ego! My wife Sharon and I felt stirred to do something worthwhile with our lives. OK, truth be told, it was Sharon who felt this way more than me...

The Professor shocked my wife and myself when he said that a recent decision of the leaders of the church was obscene and that what they were planning

Who am I discipling? That was the question that was booming in my head as I read Steve Smith’s account of Ying Kai in

Like most Aussie Christians, I would love to see a move of God in our nation. Just think for a moment about what that would mean