Young Senior Leaders of Rapid Growth Churches

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For churches experiencing rapid growth, usually with younger leadership teams (i.e. senior leaders under 50). These churches are typically innovative in approach, creating significant impact and emerging as national influencers. The objective for this community will be to learn from one another’s models, and to explore models for accelerating growth.

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Case Study
Through the ECPN Leadership Community, participating teams were given the opportunity to share their experience of church planting, aiming to highlight effective practice through their stories and examples.

The Good to Great Church Planting: Accelerating Growth and Effectiveness in Church Planting concept paper from 2009 focusses on principles for accelerating growth and influence:

What will make your church move from being good at planting churches, to being great? This paper describes some of the principles churches and networks across Europe today are using to accelerate their growth, influence and effectiveness in church planting.

ECPN teams featured in this paper include:
• AAVM in Arhus, Denmark; senior leader Keld Dahlmann
• The Message Trust, Manchester, UK; executive director Matt Wilson
• Vineyard DACH, Germany; senior leader Marcus Hausner