A church pioneer
Colin Baron
"Planting churches used to be seen as exclusively for the 'radical' people"
How times have changed.
Over the past six months I have been asked to get involved in two inter-denominational church planting groups in Greater Manchester. This church planting thing is really catching on!
When we came the city 14 years ago, church planting was often seen as a threat to existing churches… I must say with some justification, as it did tend to involve whole groups of people ‘moving in’ to an area from elsewhere. It was also seen as an activity exclusively for the ‘radical’ people.
A few years ago I wrote a manual outlining lessons we had learnt in our first phase of planting churches in Greater Manchester. I now want to bring it up to date as we have now embarked on our second phase of church planting bringing some new ideas into the text.
I am going to use the blog as a vehicle to go through the text and so over the next months I will unpack the manual.
Watch this space!
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Colin's Profile
Colin leads Christ Church Manchester (CCM), a new church on the east side of the city birthed out of a passion to see significant churches planted in each of the ten boroughs of Greater Manchester.
Colin also travels internationally for the Newfrontiers team, encouraging and equipping church planters as well as coaching leaders and developing teams in established churches.