Mother-Daughter Church Planting
Planting a church from a larger church can have advantages as well as challenges. The story of Rylands Community Church in Beeston, Nottinghamshire gives examples of both.
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In this episode, Adrian Reynolds (Associate National Director) and Graham Beynon (Associate National Director) are joined by Steve Baraniak (minister, Rylands Community Church) to discuss mother-daughter church planting: when a core group from a larger church start a new church nearby.
Rylands Community Church was planted in 2013 from Beeston Free Church and began as a congregation of Beeston Free, before becoming fully independent itself.
00:00 - Series introduction
02:40 - Rylands and Beeston in Nottingham
06:14 - Why plant a church in the Rylands?
15:40 - Starting a new church
19:08 - When does the daughter church leave the mother church?
25:29 - Challenges of mother-daughter plants
30:27 - How to recruit a planting team
This is the second in a series of podcast episodes to explore different ways to plant a church.
In:Dependence is the official FIEC podcast for local church leaders, where you’ll hear conversations on helpful topics from the FIEC staff team and guests.
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Podcast music: Drifting by Future Infinite.
