G12 and the King's Church

Our church leadership believe G12 is a God-given vision to produce a church of great effectiveness in this generation

Why does the King's Church need G12?

The relationship between the Kings church and the G12 approach to church life has a considerable history. When the church began in 1987 it adopted this strategy and structure of similar churches which the first members came from.

As the church grew it became very apparent that the initial strategies were wholly inappropriate. The care and support we enjoyed in a small church was difficult to provide in a larger one. There was more work to do and people became exhausted. Pastoral needs greatly reduced our outreach efforts. We were not generating sufficient new leaders to keep up with the growth. The church leaders went back to the drawing board, in prayer, bible study and discussion in an attempt to discern God's way forward.

It was at this time, about 1995, that the 'cell church' teaching was sweeping our nation with the New Testament emphases of care and nurture, leadership development, every member ministry, prayer and evangelism. This message was so timely for us and we embraced it along with countless other churches across the land.

After five years it became apparent to us that, though the cell church model was nearest thing to the New Testament church that we had ever experienced, there were still things to be learned in the facilitating of this vision.

We began to seek God, believing that intentional discipleship was the main issue and we began preparing a structured teaching and training package. After months of work we came across the G12 material and were absolutely amazed at the similarity of this vision compared with our own.

The key difference in the G12 cell vision is that it provides a sequential and achievable training programme which has the greatest potential to turn new believers in to effective workers for God. Our church leadership believes it is a God-given vision to produce a church of great effectiveness in this generation.