Australia is experiencing the biggest population growth in our history with record immigration levels and a rebounding birth rate—one million new people every three years.

At one new church for every thousand new people we need to plant 1,000 new churches every three years just to keep up.

Not just any churches.

We need churches that can reach immigrants. One quarter to those new Australians were born overseas. Expect immigration to keep increasing as the average age of Australians continues to rise.

We need more churches in the boom states of Queensland and Western Australia.

We need churches that can reach a new generation.

next1000 aims at putting church multiplication back on the agenda of the Australian church. Our initial target is 1000 new churches. In the light of these population trends, that’s just a start.