
Local churches, global mission
Union Mission supports church planting and revitalisation around the world
Stories from our mission partners
Read stories and updates from our church planting partners across the world.
Church planter Marco Martella shares how support from Union Mission is helping Nuova Vita Downtown church reach Bologna with the gospel.
Church planter David Seckington, who is supported by Union Mission, reflects on opportunities to share Jesus in London.
Union Mission is supporting David Varney’s vision to see 32 church plants set up across Northern Ireland in partnership with the Advance Network.
As part of the Planting Pitfalls series building on his research among struggling plants, Dan Steel thinks about how church plants can maintain a healthy relationship with the parent church.
David Varney writes about church planting work in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It’s great to see Union’s missional ecosystem being a source of support here.
As part of the Planting Pitfalls series building on his research among struggling plants, Dan Steel, local pastor and part of the Acts 29 UK network, encourages church planters to build wisely and so avoid some of the most common risk factors. This article looks at the ways we allocate our time and what we trust to deliver results.
Lois Franks works alongside her husband church planting in the Rhondda valley of South Wales. Here, she shares some of the joys and challenges of being a church planting pastor’s wife.
Reports coming in from projects that have received Union Mission funds are a real cause for celebration.
As part of the Planting Pitfalls series building on his research among struggling plants, Dan Steel, local pastor and part of the Acts 29 UK network, encourages church planters to build wisely and so avoid some of the most common risk factors. This article looks at the vital topic of unity.
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"Funds received through Union Mission were used to train nine church planters from Greece and the Balkans. Several other congregations were established in Athens as the churches that were planted began to plant new churches."
Giotis Kantartzis, City to City Balkans initiative in Athens, Greece
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"This Union funding will allow us to strengthen our leadership by providing training programs and development opportunities over the next year for our emerging leaders. We are so grateful for the partnership and support of Union in standing with us as we strive to bring the gospel to the unchurched and unreached in our community.”
Rhys Gronow, UST student and church planter South Wales
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“The finances we received through Union Mission have been vital because it’s meant that as a new church we’ve had solidity and our presence in the community has been consistent week to week.”
Doug Clark, Union School of Theology graduate
Our impact
Union is a new ministry enabling healthy church growth through investing in leaders. Find out more in our Ministry Report 2024.
£107k
Distributed to church planting projects sin 2024
£1.5m
Channelled to church planting since 2017
25
Church planting projects supported in 2024

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