Trends, Challenges, and Strategic Responses for Australian Churches and Denominations in 2026

Trends, insights into faith and church attendance in Australia in 2025. How we can respond.

Gen Y & Z are helping us to reimagine the future of the church as multiplying: multisite & micro - deeply connected to local communities.

Christmas means hope. God's offer of friendship is not merely a consolation in the face of evil and suffering. It is the sure hope of a self and a world that will be transformed.

A church should respond to a terror event in the wider community by combining clear pastoral care, wise public communication, trauma‑aware practices, and a sustained commitment to peacemaking and justice.

England persisting with Bazball despite clear data, media analysis, and fan feedback looks very similar to a declining church refusing to act on obvious signs of trouble.

What are the ways in which pastoral supervision can help someone who is being bullied in their workplace?

Explores the journey of Priscilla and Aquila in planting multiple churches, and asks, what barriers are there to lay planting? #churchplanting

The benefits of supervision for denominations, supervisees/pastors and attenders/congregations.

Factors that influence church decline and how to respond to these factors and decline in the West.

What is pastoral supervision and why should ministry leaders engage in it?

MULTIPLY! The good ground represents the heart of a man who...goes out and brings thirty, sixty, or even a hundred others into the Kingdom.

Trauma-informed pastoral care, along with care from the whole church, is becoming increasingly important as incidence of trauma increases.