We believe Jesus died for us, that his grace is sufficient for us, and we are committed to taking up our cross and following Him.  Starting and strengthening churches built on the grace of God is essential to seeing the kinds of churches we see in the New Testament – churches found in, built on and sent out with Christ.

We’re devoted to God and worship him with all our heart, mind, soul and strength.  We’re called into relationship with the Father.  We enjoy fellowship and communion with Him as His adopted children and live a life seeking him.  

Raising and training disciples and leaders across the network who are devoted to God is key to this foundation.  We invest heavily in this training and ask local churches to take the raising and training of leaders seriously by engaging in this. 

We are a people of both God’s word and His Spirit – we teach the bible and we are baptised in His Spirit.  We want to build churches that hear, obey and share God’s word. The church is a temple of the Holy Spirit and we should expect His presence among us.  We believe in the power, the life and gifts of the Holy Spirit to the church and seek to build churches that express this reliance on Him and His power.  

Ephesians 4 ministry is grounded in God's word and God’s Spirit.

Hubs – Apostolic Teams

Catalyst is a network of churches working together through apostolic teams, ‘Hubs’, to outwork our vision – to make disciples and start and strengthen churches.  Every church is connected to one of our Hubs.  Hubs provide the space for churches to work together, for leaders to connect, for Ephesians 4 ministry to grow, develop, be given and received in the church.  Hubs train and plant churches and teams across the world. 

knowing one another, meeting each other’s needs, being in friendship with one another – this a hallmark of the church. We seek to start and strengthen churches that foster healthy relationships throughout the church, caring for one another as each has need.

Keeping one another safe

Part of our commitment to loving one another is keeping one another safe. We are extremely serious about safeguarding throughout our network and expect all churches who are part of the Network, wherever they may operate, to establish and follow safeguarding policy and procedures suitable for their context, and to adhere to and implement our Safeguarding Statement. In addition to this we strongly recommend that every Catalyst church operating in the UK follows our specific UK recommendations. Catalyst requires that churches in the network inform Catalyst's DSL (Designated Safeguarding Lead) immediately if an allegation is made against a senior church leader or its chair of trustees, or if there is a significant safeguarding concern raised in the church or an organisation it has specific responsibility for.

The Catalyst Safeguarding Statement can be found here

The Catalyst UK Safeguarding recommendations can be found here

Our churches are led by teams of gifted men and women of different backgrounds and ages, married and single, serving according to the gifts that God has given them. Both women and men have authority, voice, respect, recognition and influence in the direction and shape of our church and operate with genuine love and mutual respect. By networking our church teams together we want to build a growing apostolic network giving and receiving resources, accountability, training, support, friendship and partnering in key ventures together.

Healthy Leadership

We encourage healthy team leadership where men and women lead together and where successes are celebrated and conflict or struggle responded to.  Healthy leadership requires intentional development.  We expect Catalyst churches to engage in training and development of leaders, partnership at leadership events and conferences, and the development of healthy leadership policy and procedure to ensure concerns can be raised and responded to promptly ensuring leaders grow and develop.

We are a people who understand the gospel of the kingdom and know how to declare it and demonstrate it wherever God has placed us, particularly remembering the poor – building churches that heal the sick bring freedom to the oppressed, lead people to christ and do the works of the kingdom 

Finance

Seeing God’s kingdom fill the earth is only possible as we work together.  One of the ways we do that is by partnering together financially.

We encourage all Catalyst churches to give a percentage of their income away. 

Our minimum recommendation within this, is that:

1/3 of a churches total income would be given to the Hub they are a part of enabling apostolic ministry to grow and develop around them.

1/3 of a churches total income would be given to Catalyst as a whole enabling us to support ministry globally through the many Hubs that form our network.  

Churches would take up periodic offerings in response to us partnering together across multiple hubs in specific ventures.  These would be given to offerings such as at conferences or festivals.   

We understand the priority of making healthy, growing, multiplying disciples; teaching one another to obey everything Jesus has commanded us, baptising one another in the name of the father, son and holy spirit.  We encourage churches to be strategic in ‘going’ to the local area, the region and the world.  

Specifically, we are partnering with one another to:

Train1000 – globally training 1000 church planters to be ready to go

Sent Ones - training and releasing disciples cross-culturally - COMING SOON