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.

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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!

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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’.

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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.

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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?

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Support teams

What we’re learning about supporting local churches well through diverse and gifted ‘support teams’.

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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.

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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.

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Buy the truth

Our culture is to invest in sending leaders to learn from others. Why do we value that?

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