Over the past 10 years Catalyst has planted more than 300 new churches in different parts of the world. We have some remarkable brothers and sisters pioneering into new cities and new nations, establishing new church communities bringing glory to Jesus! Recently God has stirred us to train 1000 church planters before the year 2030. We’d like to keep you updated if you’d either like to be praying for us, train with us or become a coach who could care for future church planters.

This initiative began with Simon Holley sensing God drop into his spirit a challenge. This is how Simon recalls that moment:

Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about what’s next for us. In a quiet moment of prayer, I felt a nudge, a whisper in my spirit, saying ‘train 1000 church planters’. At first, this idea seemed overwhelming – even impossible. But then I remembered that God had spoken to us like this before and we raised far more than the £100,000 he asked us to raise for the Covid fund. If it’s from Him then he will enable us to not only achieve it, but maybe even to exceed it!”

As Simon shared this with other leaders across our family of churches, quickly there was a rise of faith. There is now a genuine sense that God is speaking to us and challenging us to believe Him for a wonderful church planting advance over the coming years.

Listen to Simon Holley and Martin Tibbert, share more about Train1000 at our recent leaders gathering.

We feel we have weighed this word and are therefore seeking to train 1000 church planters by the year 2030. We believe this is a global initiative that God is asking us all to own together. Our family around the world are leading the way in spreading the gospel and impacting their communities with the Kingdom of God. Many of the resources that end up being produced for the Train1000 initiative will be in multiple languages and include learnings from across our family.

For more details about how you can be involved, subscribe to our email list. When you join the list, you can opt to pray for us, express interest in coaching or training, or simply stay updated.

By Abi Flavell

Abi works for Catalyst as their Projects and Communications Manager. She serves as part of the Catalyst Strategy Team, as well as Matt Hatch’s Hub Team and as part of the Senior Leadership Team of River City Church Hull. She’s a passionate evangelist and church planter, loves reading and fitting as many people around her dining table as possible.