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.
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Founded on the belief that pioneering is integral to parish life, Pioneering Parishes enable churches to shift energy out into the parish.
Courses
Whether you’re starting out as a pioneering parish or want to take the next steps, or if you are already on the journey, 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.

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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.
Pioneering Parishes: What’s on offer?
First steps
Discover pioneering and why it’s integral to healthy parish life. Case studies and practical tools help you consider how your church can shift its energy outwards.
Culture change in practice
Tools to enable lasting culture change for church leaders grappling with the challenge of developing a pioneering culture and a mixed ecology of church.
Community of learning
A monthly gathering of the Pioneering Parishes learning community for anyone who has completed First Steps and/or Next Steps to share experiences and wsidom.