Jonathan Edwards, General Secretary of the Baptist Union of G.B. is taken to emerging church plants and places in need of planting by Church from Scratch. At each he gives his response to camera, talking of the need for a new Baptist response to church planting and pioneering mission.

The days are long gone where creativity is seen as unnecessary in church planting. Less and less people are assuming it's a simple matter of taking a few of your church's house groups and setting them up as a new church or just a matter of the deacons booking a hall on the estate and setting up the sound system for your first Sunday. There is a growing desire to see people becoming Christians as we create new forms of church through the Spirit rather than hoovering up those attending other churches by photocopying what already is.

Mother-Daughter church planting, as it's sometimes known, still has it's place, but to reach those Baptist churches are not typically reaching and for Baptists to start being strategic, then a breadth of new church planting models are needed. This will result in a new diversity of Baptist churches and help us understand more clearly what it really means to be a Baptist church. For all this to be possible we must ask 'What is God doing in this particular place, and how do we reconfigure to join in with his mission?'

Listen to Jonathan as we visit two church planting situations and two places in need of church planting in Essex in the southern part of the Eastern Baptist Association. Hear and watch as he takes us on a day out:

- Southend-on-Sea High Street is 'youth central' with a very large concentration of younger people with little church engagement. What might a Baptist response to church planting be here?

- Shared Space is a pioneering new social enterprise expression of church planting started by Church from Scratch. Could this model be used elsewhere to help community engagement in a large scale and sustainable way?

- Tilbury is a town of 15,000 people on the bank of the Thames in Essex with very little Christian presence. But who is there willing to plant here?

- Harold Hill is an estate inside the M25 in Essex of about 15,000 people with a pioneering Baptist church planting team.

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A Church from Scratch video released in partnership with the Baptist Times.