A network is forming — coming soon.

A small group is coming together with Myriad to ask a simple question: what would it look like for church planters to belong to something bigger than their own plant?

We are exploring a new relational network — for graduates of a Myriad Pathway, mentors who walk alongside plant leaders, leaders of larger churches who plant, and any church leader with a multiplication mindset who wants to be in relationship with us and with each other.

We don't yet know what shape this will take. But we know why it matters.

When Myriad listened to the stories of twenty lay planters across thirteen dioceses, one thing came through again and again: planting a church is rarely a solitary calling, but it's often a solitary experience. "No one had done what we were doing," one planter said. "You're leading something no one higher above you had done. You need to have confidence and understand that." Another was blunter still: "If you were just to do this on your own, with no network at all, for us it would be impossible — we wouldn't be able to sustain it."

The planters who thrived weren't always the most gifted or the best resourced — they were the ones with people around them. A mentor who "took a risk on me, had faith in me, when I didn't have faith in myself." Peers a little further down the road who could say, "we've been there, you'll come out the other end, you're not mad." As one planter put it, "to be in a room with other people insanely doing stuff is so encouraging."

That's what we're building towards — not a programme, but a place to belong. A network of leaders carrying the weight of multiplication, known and accompanied by others who understand exactly what that costs.