News, updates and blogs
Updates and perspectives from the Advance family of churches, including posts by individuals in our teams and churches, as well as updates from our gatherings and activities.
Supporting growth in Cheltenham
How can you get involved in supporting the encouraging growth in our church plant in Cheltenham?
Two apostolic teams
In June 2024, we announced the formation of two new apostolic teams, as part of the changes we’re making following the June 2023 apostolic review. Read all about it!
Wind and wells
A profound encounter with the Lord led Geoff, one of our founding leaders, to write about catching afresh ‘the wind of the Spirit’ and redigging afresh ‘the wells of the Spirit’.
Hosting God’s Presence
Liam Thatcher, speaker at Thrive 2024 and leader of School of the Spirit, reflects on what it means to be a people that host and pursue the Spirit of God.
Church Family Meetings
A core practice for our family of churches, how do Church Family Meetings work as part of the process of discernment and leadership in a healthy local church?
Support teams
What we’re learning about supporting local churches well through diverse and gifted ‘support teams’.
Let’s get building!
Advance team leader Rich reflects on our current moment as a family of churches, with a blog based on his closing session at the recent Thrive conference.
Thriving churches Kingdom people
Resources, recordings and testimonies from Thrive 2024 - transformative for invididuals and significant for our family of churches.
Everything healthy is part of something bigger
That's a deep longstanding conviction for our family of churches – it's why we are in fact a family of churches!
Seeing all our churches thrive!
A new team for a new season in the life of the Salt & Light Advance family of churches
Time for Newbury
Time for Newbury? A prophetic word given at our 2023 conference ‘Multiply’ has led us to start exploratory prayer meetings in this Berkshire town.
Buy the truth
Our culture is to invest in sending leaders to learn from others. Why do we value that?
Everyone gets to play
Training and leadership development is a big part of what Advance focuses on!
A new day, a new start, a new space
A fresh start after the pandemic for Lifehouse (Bicester and Banbury)