At the Gregory Centre for Church Multiplication (CCX), we believe generosity isn’t an optional extra.
It’s a Gospel imperative that underpins healthy multiplication and sits at the heart of how we help the church reach new people in new and renewed ways.
Time and again we’ve seen that when leaders and communities hold their resources with open hands, God uses that posture to bring growth, renewal and mission that multiplies. We’d love to encourage you with two traits of fruitful generosity we repeatedly observe when helping to resource and support churches.
Patience over pace
The world prioritises immediacy; the Kingdom often grows through faithful waiting. Paul encourages the Galatian church not to grow weary in doing good, because “at the proper time we will reap a harvest” (Galatians 6:9).
A scenario in which we continually see the fruit of patience is when churches on low-income housing estates release emerging leaders for apprenticeships and responsibility – even when capacity feels thin and the return isn’t immediate.
We’d love you to hear Katie’s story, one of our current estates apprentices, whose church leader and community are investing in and encouraging her to begin a journey of training and learning that has set her on a path to ordination.
We see the fruit of patience when senior leaders invest in local churches with time, trust, and funding, choosing long-haul mission over quick wins. It can feel risky, but patient generosity is often where multiplication begins.
Is God inviting you into an act of generosity that might take time to bear fruit? Are your expectations set by the world’s pace, or by God’s “proper time”?
Giving away your best
Generosity can mean offering what is costly. Throughout scripture, God’s people are called to bring their first fruits (Proverbs 3:9) and finest offerings (Malachi 1:8), not what is left over. Churches can model this so well when they send their strongest leaders, musicians or youth workers to serve at church plants and revitalisations. Letting go of gifted people that you’ve trained and invested in is costly but it creates room for others to step up, and for new life to grow. If we don’t let go, we don’t grow.
We’re continually inspired by this kind of sacrificial generosity in many of the churches we work with: a curate working with us to volunteer one day a week for two years to train our low-income apprentices is one small example of a bigger story of people offering skills, presence, prayer, and relationships so others might thrive.
Is God inviting you to give away your first fruits? Is there an opportunity to support a cause that will feel costly, requiring your best resources or skills?
Our encouragement is to practise generosity early, practise it visibly, and trust God with the multiplication. Generosity isn’t the goal of our mission; it’s the soil where mission takes root.
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PRAY
Dear God
We thank you for organisations that are taking the gospel to reach new people in new ways. We thank you for those who have sacrificially given up possessions and prospects to make you known.
May bless their efforts and grow your Kingdom
Amen
ACT
If you’d like to play your part in helping the Church reach new people in new and renewed ways, CCX would be honoured to receive your support.
Please consider attending one of the CCX ‘Multiply’ events in 2026 that are held around the country to resource and encourage leaders of all traditions and contexts in church planting and renewal.
Visit www.ccx.org.uk/multiply/ for more information.
