ChristCentral's History - Christ Church Blackpool

God is building His church all around the world and it is a privilege to join with others on His mission.

The family of churches we have the privilege to partner with are:

Newfrontiers

Newfrontiers are a family of thousands of churches in over 60 nations. Follow newfrontierstogether.org to find out more.

Christ Central

Within Newfrontiers we’re part of Christ Central, a network of churches aiming to make disciples in the nations of the world. Follow christcentralchurches.org to find out more.

ChristCentral’s History

Over the past few years the Newfrontiers family has been going through an exciting period of transition. This change culminated in a number of leaders being released to build their own apostolic teams. Which aim of these teams to furthering mission, church planting, strengthening of churches and raising up new leaders. The intention of this multiplication of apostolic teams is to continue to multiply mission amongst the Newfrontiers family. One person has described this transition time as: “the sons are beginning to have families of their own!” One of these ‘sons’ is Jeremy Simpkins, who in 1999 along with his wife Ann, moved from the South Coast, where he had been an Elder at Kings Church Eastbourne, to the North East of England where he began to lead Jubilee Church Teesside. This was the start of what has developed into one of the new Newfrontiers apostolic teams…ChristCentral. Not long after their move, Jeremy started to serve other local churches in the growing North East region. Then in 2004 these eight churches decided to have a weekend away together called “North”, which attracted 450 people. This is was known as North Camp, which in 2012 gathered nearly 2,500 people. Over the last few years more and more churches across the North of the UK began looking to Jeremy for apostolic leadership, giving birth to Christ Central (then known as Newfrontiers North UK). This group has now grown form the north of England to not only plant more churches across the UK but churches in other nations as well. Linking arms with apostolic leaders across the world including Ukraine, Sweden, Mexico, Canada, Ghana, Zambia and Oman, to see the grace of God change this world.