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Who We Are

Fresh Expressions partners with churches and faithful risk-takers to unleash new forms of Christian community in the wild and wonderful spaces of everyday life

Rooted in tradition.

Animated by love.

Fueled with imagination.

We have a heart for the inherited church. Yet, an increasingly diverse world calls for a diversity of expressions of Christ’s Church. We help churches and pioneering leaders connect more deeply with the community around them, allowing the places we are in and the people around us to participate in shaping a form of Christian community that can best reflect God’s kingdom right there. Where God’s Spirit is kindling these fresh expressions of church, new people are coming to faith and bored Christians are coming to life.

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Rooted in tradition:

We honor the inherited church while helping it innovate.

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Animated by love:

Our aim isn’t growth for growth’s sake—it’s people encountering the grace of Jesus.

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Fueled with imagination:

We help Christians think creatively about how church can look and feel in their unique context.

We are an ecumenical movement in the broadest sense, not constrained by one strand of the North American Church. Rather, we are a movement of liturgical and non-liturgical traditions, conservative and progressive traditions, contemplative and charismatic traditions…all united in mission. 


We are partnered with our friends from the United Kingdom, where this movement first emerged, and showed the Western world that it is indeed possible for the treasure of the inherited church to co-exist–even thrive– with creative new experiments on the edges. We continue to live out this vision in the North American context, as we work together to foster fresh expressions of church in every neighborhood…every network…every region.



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Our Core Charisms

Missional. Practical. Adventurous. Rooted.

Missional

Church is more than a weekly worship service—it’s a community of disciples on mission with Jesus. We help churches live missionally beyond Sunday mornings, forming new kinds of community in the neighborhoods, networks, and everyday spaces where people live and long for connection.


Practical

Ideas spark imagination. But turning vision into reality takes support. Whether you’re a dreamer, mid-council leader, pastor, or pioneer, we walk with you—offering training, coaching, and community for the journey. We don’t just talk mission. We help you live it.


Adventurous

The world is changing, and Jesus is inviting the church into a more adventurous posture. Like the early disciples who prayed for courage (Acts 4:29), we step into a future that calls for holy risk, Spirit-led creativity, and deep trust. We equip leaders to experiment with intention and take faithful leaps into what’s next.


Rooted

We stand on the shoulders of those who came before us. The historic church, with its liturgies, wisdom, and witness, is not something we discard—it’s something we draw from.  We honor the traditions that have formed us while discerning how the Spirit is calling us forward. This is not about starting over. It’s about creative ways to share that treasure in a 21st century world.



What We Do

Through training, coaching, and community, we equip churches to take faithful risks and plant new expressions of church that meet people where they are.
Inevitably, as we work with these faithful risk-takers, we hear: “I feel like I’ve found my people!” We were not meant to be on mission alone. We exist to not only resource you, but accompany you on the fresh expressions journey. Let’s do this…and let’s do it together.
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Who do we work with?

We believe that anyone can start a fresh expression. This is one of the unique qualities of Fresh Expressions–it isn’t just a calling for those in full time ministry with a theological education…it’s for anyone!



We work with:


Lay People–equipping them to live out the fresh expression journey among the people or friend group that God is laying on their heart


Pastors–equipping them to cast vision for fresh expressions and unearth teams and leaders for this mission


Congregations–helping them discover where they might have unique opportunities for fresh expressions to take root


Regional Church Leaders–partnering with them to develop and implement a regional strategy for fresh expressions