Pioneering Parishes

Into all
the parish

Tools to help parishes engage with people who are unconnected

Pioneering Parishes helps parishes become more outward looking, enabling parish priests and their churches to extend the care of souls into all the parish.

About

Founded on the belief that pioneering is integral to parish life, Pioneering Parishes enable churches to shift energy out into the parish.

Tools

Whether you’re starting out as a pioneering parish or are already on the path to becoming a pioneering parish, we have tools that can help you.

Stories

People who have taken part in Pioneering Parishes – whether lay people or ordained – talk about it as an overwhelmingly positive experience.

Into All the Parish

“A ‘must-read’ for all who want to see their local churches thrive”. Our bestselling book provides tools, practices and postures to help churches go into all the parish.

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Pioneering Parishes helps churches move forward with what they have, rather than adding more tasks and activities to workloads. Helping parishes cultivate an environment in which new things can thrive in an appropriate way for their context and community.

Founded on the belief that pioneering is integral to parish life, Pioneering Parishes helps church leaders, both clergy and lay people, to discover pioneering in a new way and then enable steady culture change to shift energy out from the church into the parish.

Every church wants to be more outward looking and this gives simple ways to be so.

Adam, Vicar

Ready to go into all the parish? Watch this video to get a taste of what we offer:

Pioneering Parishes has inspired me to keep going.

Olivia, Curate

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The impact of Pioneering Parishes

Pioneering Parishes is impacting the fulfilment of the Church of England’s six bold outcomes, says an independent report

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