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“I am delighted to offer a wholehearted endorsement of the work of the Myriad Learning Pathway for teams of Lay Planters. Our 2023-5 cohort in Suffolk has been known as “Growing New” and has brought together diverse lay planting teams from rural and urban contexts.

Myriad’s learning community approach has given them the theological grounding, practical tools, and mutual encouragement needed to discern their call and step out in faith. It has also enabled them to grow in confidence, accountability, and vision as they explore how to share Jesus in ways that are culturally relevant, sustainable, and deeply relational.

Participant teams are planting fresh expressions of Church, cultivating new discipleship networks, engaging with the unchurched, and serving their communities in creative, context-sensitive ways.

The staff from Myriad have been outstanding in sharing wisdom from further afield and helping us to listen to the Holy Spirit for our own situations. We are particularly impressed at how keen they were to serve the diocese and our dispersed missional community “Lightwave” with flexibility to make sure the pathway was absolutely the best it could be for our context.

We have been able to use our local vocabulary and incorporate other learning such as Church Army’s Envoy Course and input on financial sustainability.

I commend this work with gratitude and anticipation for all that is still to come.”

Sally Gaze

Archdeacon for Rural Mission and Leader of the Lightwave Community

“Myriad has been a great encouragement to The Garden Network and the Diocese as a whole. Normalising what will surely be a key part of future ministry, walking alongside our lay leaders and providing tools to help in every context has been exactly what is needed.”

Dave Lloyd

Mission Development Officer, Diocese of Norwich

“Across the UK, God is calling everyday people to start new worshipping communities which reach new people in new and renewed ways. It has been great to see Myriad step into this space, equipping lay leaders to follow God's call on their lives to plant these new Christian communities. Having started under the umbrella of CCX, Myriad is now forming its own charity, the Myriad Collective. This is an exciting example of multiplication, which will no doubt multiply the impact of this crucial ministry. I want to offer every prayer and blessing for the Myriad Collective in this next exciting season.”

Ric Thorpe

Archbishop of Melbourne

“Myriad is a timely and strategic investment into the future of the Church in this country. Our engagement with running a Myriad hub has produced some of the most inspiring stories of church planting initiatives that I have ever known.

This has not been based on the headline-grabbing large investments that so often get the attention, but on encouraging, developing, releasing, and supporting the gifts of lay leaders already present in every congregation.”

Paul Harcourt

Vicar, All Saints Woodford Wells and former National Leader of New Wine

“Myriad has enabled learning for leaders and others involved in Garden Church BMO in the Diocese of Norwich. There has been a real commitment to mentoring and walking with lay leaders over a period of time, with an enabling approach focused on context.

The focus on developing people to develop others makes this a sustainable model with an ethos of listening and adapting to what the Spirit is saying to the churches involved.

The resources are inspiring and simple to use and it's good to have attention focused on mission and action, not only theory.”

Jane Steen

Bishop of Lynn

“When I first heard about Myriad my heart lit up. As a minister of a church with a bunch of potential church planters within my congregation, it was exactly the kind of resource which I had fruitlessly searched for several years previously. Having been a hub host for the full process of 2.5 years, I have not been disappointed.

The Myriad Pathway is well designed to help people journey towards planting and pioneering, without feeling forced or hurried, alongside a cohort which forms a genuine supportive, prayerful and collaborative community.

The content brings considered theological and ecclesiological reflection together with reflection from experienced practitioners on the process of beginning new worshipping communities. It allows participants to consider a wholistic approach attending to their personal care and development as well as the missional opportunities at hand.

Support from the Myriad team has been exemplary. They are a passionate, missional-minded, highly experienced and generous hearted.

I recommend Myriad to church leaders seeking to understand, support and release lay-leaders in mission and church multiplication. I recommend it to those discerning their own sense of call to the same.”

Revd Dr Nick Allan

Minister, The Well Sheffield & Director, St Hild Centre for Baptist Ministry