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New and Renewing Churches is a department of the Office of Local Mission of the Lutheran Church of Australia and New Zealand. The Local Mission office walks with missional communities by providing leadership and support and by growing missional culture across the entire church.

Love comes to life when God’s people grow in his grace and go out into their world with his love.

New & Renewing Churches

We are mobilising congregations to participate in the work of seeing new believers come to Christ. We want to see mature churches that plant churches as the norm.

  • We assist churches to begin, evaluate or progress their journey in church planting.
  • We work with church leaders and pastors to build church planting capacity.
  • We provide resources, training opportunities, conferences and a supportive network for church planters and missional communities.

We are helping congregations discern the voice of the Spirit as they follow Jesus into the world, which he has claimed as his own and where he is already at work.

  • We work with congregations and agencies to help them assess opportunities for church planting and we provide mentorship for church leaders and pastors as they embark on this journey.
  • We walk with missional communities and church planters as they establish new groups of believers. This is not a ‘one size fits all’ approach and it is definitely not another program.
YOUR SUPPORT CREW
RESOURCES TO EQUIP YOU
5%

our target growth rate every year

23

new church plants every year

100%

dependence on the Holy Spirit

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