So who are we?

This church plant is some of the fruit of a vision that goes back 30 years.  East Midlands Christian Fellowships (EMCF) has long been committed to seeing the Kingdom of God come across the East Midlands and church planting is at the heart of the vision.  Today EMCF is made up of 5 congregations with an apostolic base in Derby called Community Church Derby.  It is from here that CityChurch Leicester is being planted.  EMCF is also part of a national movement of churches called Salt and Light Ministries.  You can find out more about all these groups via the links opposite.

The vision to plant into Leicester has been growing in the hearts of the EMCF leaders for 18 months now and Ben and Esther Rook, who are part of the leadership and staff of EMCF are heading up a team that will move into the city to plant this church.  We are in faith that this plant will begin with a strong group of 50+ adults and their children from across EMCF and Salt and Light.

CityChurch Leicester will be launched officially in September 2011 but there are already a good number of people committing to this adventure.  We will begin to meet to pray and seek God for the future of the plant soon, watch this space and drop us a line if you would like to find out more!

Its all coming together!

Come on.  The CityChurch Leicester website splash page is now up and running.  Take a look with the link opposite. Now we have a webpage, a blog and Facebook page.  Hopefully that should help us be as visible as we can be, now we just need to plant a church!

By the way 'CityChurch' is not a typo, it is deliberate.  It's a design thing.  I like it.

Up and running

Welcome to the CityChurch Leicester blog! The purpose of this blog will likely change over time but for now its purpose is to chart our journey as we head towards planting a brand new church in Leicester. There is a lot to say already about who we are, our vision and the story so far. That will all come soon and we hope that this blog will be of interest to anyone who is keen to join, support or follow the progress of CityChurch Leicester.

This weekend is a big one for us. We will be at the Salt and Light ministries European Leaders Conference and we are blessed to be recieving a bit of publicity. We have produced a short video about the plant and that will be shown at the conference and hopefully there will be some people who are stirred to consider getting involved. We shall see.

After the conference we shall begin sharing more information here on the blog. See you then!