Our UK Partners
Our church planters primarily are in The Free Church of Scotland, The International Presbyterian Church, Evangelical Presbyterian Church in England and Wales, and The Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches.
The UKP also works with
The Birmingham Collective: is a collaborative church planting movement, represented by a range of denominations and backgrounds. Since 2010, they have planted 20 churches in the city of Birmingham.
The Alliance for Transatlantic Theological Training (AT-3.org)
Since 2013, the original goal of the UKP was to provide $1,000,000 over the course of ten years to our UK church planters. In actuality, the Lord has provided over $3,000,000 through the tenth year.
The UKP has no paid staff, and there is no fee to join.
The Free Church of Scotland is committed to the proclamation and furtherance of the Christian faith in the nation of Scotland and beyond.
With over 100 congregations and more than 13,000 people attending our Sunday services from a wide range of backgrounds, our united desire is to proclaim the Lordship of Jesus Christ – the only Saviour to a dying world – and to live in obedience to the Bible.
We believe that faith in the person and works of our Lord Jesus Christ is humanity’s greatest need, since it is only by His perfect sinless life, sacrificial death on a cross, and bodily resurrection from the dead that we can be reconciled to God and granted eternal life.
Our mission is not to grow an organisation. Nor is it to become just another club or group within the community. We exist because of Jesus Christ. We want to fulfil his commission to us to “make disciples”. That means we share his message so that men, women, boys and girls who would know, love, follow, worship, confess and serve Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour. It is the only message that gives life, a life described by Jesus as lived to the full (John 10:10) and eternal (John 17:3).
The International Presbyterian Church was founded in 1954 through the ministry of Francis Schaeffer in Switzerland. From its early days, the IPC was closely associated with L’Abri, Schaeffer’s better-known ministry among skeptical and doubting young people, which was founded in 1955. In time, two congregations were planted in England: in Ealing, London, in 1969, and in Liss, a small village in Hampshire, in 1972. Both were led by Ranald Macaulay (Schaeffer’s son-in-law) and continue to exist today.
In 1978, a Korean congregation in Kingston joined the denomination. Bob Heppe, an American missionary, started a new church among South Asians in Southall, London, in the 1990s, now known as New Life Masih Ghar. Growth during the rest of the twentieth century was gradual, mainly consisting of Korean church plants in parts of England.
Reflecting our ‘international’ nature, we currently have two presbyteries in the UK (British and Korean), a proto-Presbytery in Europe, which currently meets with the British Presbytery, and one Presbytery in South Korea. Once a year the four presbyteries meet together for Synod.
The Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches is a family of over 500 local churches who are united by the gospel and by a common purpose. As a Fellowship we exist to encourage and equip our family of independent churches to thrive, impacting our nation with the good news of the Lord Jesus Christ.
We believe that churches “thriving” will mean disciples growing in their faith, people becoming Christians, gospel workers being trained, and more churches being planted. This is how our nation will be “impacted”, as local churches flourish and send their members into the world to influence, love, work, and speak as ambassadors for the gospel.
Of course, there are many challenges facing churches seeking to thrive in our culture. This is especially true for churches that are independent of any denomination, and who therefore lack national representation and the blessings of shared resources. Our Fellowship endeavors to be a solution to these common challenges associated with Independency, as well as being a catalyst for greater Christ-honoring partnership and ministry.
Evangelical Presbyterian Church in England and Wales
Grace is often described as “the undeserved or unearned favour of God”. It means that God does not treat all sinful men as they deserve.
The basis of God’s Grace is in the love of God and the work of Jesus Christ who gave his life as a sacrifice in the place of sinners so that we might have fellowship with God by the Holy Spirit. Grace gives us: Comfort, Hope, Courage and Holiness.
EPCEW exists because of this grace from God. We seek to declare this grace to men and women, boys and girls. You are very welcome to any of our congregations.
We are a young denomination with roots that go back hundreds of years. It was formed in two stages.
In 1986 the London Presbyterian Conference drew together a group of ministers and other active Christians who wanted to see a new Presbyterian Church in England. From that conference arose the Presbyterian Association in England (PAE).
From 1987, a group of ministers and other men formed a council and started to meet in London on a regular basis. This was the time when a renascent Presbyterian-ism started to take root. Three small congregations started Sunday meetings, and two of these three, Cambridge and Durham, became EPCEW churches in due course.