Growing Churches

Planting and growing life-giving churches that reproduce churches across the nation

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We are fully committed to our shared task of making the gospel of Jesus Christ known in individual lives and communities.

We aim to facilitate the movement’s ever-increasing and effective planting of Elim churches across the nations.

HELPING YOU GROW CHURCHES

Home-Group-thm — Evangelism Partnerships

CP570 — Planting disciple-making churches

ELIM STORIES

Coolings help turn up the heat at growing church!

Tim and Sara Cooling have a heart for revitalising churches. So when the chance to help renew Glossop Elim came up, they leapt at it. Chris Rolfe reports

Challenge for church as congregation grows

How do you grow in fruitfulness as a widespread church whose congregation is drawn from three communities? Letchworth Garden City Church’s Carl Johnston explains

Church e-merges to reach out to wider community

How do you successfully merge two churches? Trudi Smyth and Dan Bennett tell how they and their teams did just that to form Beacon Elim church

Hesitant because ministry runs in the family

Stepping into the call of God on your life may need a nudge, says Dan Hudson of Derby City Church

Trusting God through the twists and turns

Sam Foentjies and Alisha Whatnell’s journey as Ministers in Training took an unexpected path but they didn’t lose their focus on God’s call

Why we’re still serving after all these years

Over almost eight decades, Elim churches across the UK have been blessed to welcome stalwart servants Norman and Beryl Polden to their congregation. James Hastings caught up with them…

Navigating ministry together: One married couple's journey to God's calling

Ministry training is an exciting journey for anyone, but what’s it like when you do it as a couple? We asked recent ordinands Jacqui and Leigh Richmond for their views

God has given me the drive to help Hartlepool

As New Springs City Church, part of the Elim Network, set out to plant in Hartlepool this autumn, Minister in Training (MIT) Sarah Weaver scoped out the town in an unusual way. She told Chris Rolfe the story