The Firestarters Network of growing churches helping other churches to grow is part of our Baptist Movement. In January On This Rock was published – looking at repeatable traits of growth that all churches could embrace.
By mid year On This Rock had sold out its initial print run. Now revised and updated, it is available again. This includes two extra sections looking at Health, Growth and Conflict in the story of growing churches; and reflecting on the cost of being a growing church – generally for everyone and specifically for leaders. The font is slightly increased for ease and some chapters have revised applications and ideas added in.
It remains fundamentally the same book – short, intentionally written to be easy to read and accessible to volunteer leaders in busy lives as well as paid ministers.
This second print run is now available for church ministers, leaders and teams to engage with and is available from the Resources page.
Season 2 of the Firestarters Network Podcast
The second season of the Firestarters Network Podcast began in September with a focus on Evangelism For People Who Don’t Do Evangelism. Throughout the season, hosts Alex Harris and Chrissy Remsberg will explore how pastors and church leaders can equip and enable both whole churches and individuals to do evangelism well and navigate growth. In responding to growing requests from our Baptist churches, the first season explored traits of growing Baptist churches via conversation with various volunteer and paid leaders across the country. Both seasons and upcoming episodes can be found on Apple, Spotify and other places where podcasts are downloaded or you can listen directly from our Resource page. Just scroll to the bottom of the page to find the podcast player with our latest episodes.
Next Firestarters Network Conversation
The next Firestarters Network onsite conversation is in Leicestershire 25-26 September. These are intentionally conversational spaces where volunteers and paid leaders work together, listening and learning from stories of churches that are growing and wondering together the next steps God has for them. You can register for this conversation and see dates of other upcoming conversations on our Events page.