Meow Nui, Wellington
Mon 22 - Tue 23 June, 2026
Oxford Terrace Baptist, Christchurch
Fri 26 - Sat 27 June, 2026

Little Revolutions 2026

Renewed Neighbourhoods

Tickets — Wellington Tickets — Christchurch See contributors

What

Nau Mai, Haere Mai

Catch Network is excited to invite kingdom-practitioners, co-conspirators, and Gospel innovators to gather together again to dream and design the future of the Western Church.

Little Revolutions is a conference for those curious about change, church-planters who are already doing it, and movement leaders who are helping to make it possible.

We can't wait to join you in Wellington and Christchurch for this special conversation.

Aroha mai, aroha atu

The Catch Network team

Who

Keynote speakers

Keynote

Dave Mann

Bonny Downs, London

Visiting up from Bonny Downs, London. Dave and Sally have spent three decades seeing God’s kingdom come in Muslim-majority neighbourhoods and among the urban poor.

Keynote

Alan Hirsch

Melbourne, Australia

From Melbourne, Australia. Alan is a globally recognised missional thinker and author, helping leaders reimagine apostolic leadership, discipleship, and church renewal.

Where

Neighbourhood venues

Because the medium is the message, we gather in spaces that carry stories of transformation — places that invite us into “rebuilding the ancient ruins.”

Wellington / Mon 22–Tue 23 June 2026

Meow Nui — once the Wellington Salvation Army Citadel, later a live music venue. Soon we’ll fill the space with worship again — a living sign that God renews what we thought was finished.

Christchurch / Fri 26–Sat 27 June 2026

Oxford Terrace Baptist — rebuilt after the earthquakes as a shared site with Christian non-profits and community housing surrounding the church. A living picture of what the church can be.

Workshops

Programme

Case Study: Pa Whakaoranga Aranui

Kevin Hapi and Zenn Rarere

Pa Whakaoranga Aranui is a reimagined Presbyterian community in one of Christchurch’s most challenged neighbourhoods, shaped by a kaupapa of healing, restoration, and deep local presence.

Mapping the Church, Multiplying Movements

Jonathan Dove

Over the past year, ACN (Auckland Church Network) has mapped nearly 3,000 churches across 861 regions in Aotearoa, exploring where the Church is flourishing and where it’s struggling.

Contemplative Prayer for Everyone

Maja Whittaker

Moments like the Asbury revival suggest a different kind of renewal—less marked by spectacle, and more by a quiet, contemplative return to the presence of God.

Re-Imagining Success

Richard Black

The Western Church is beginning to embrace a mixed ecology of church planting—an open space where legacy models make room for hyper-local expressions, house churches, missional communities, monastic orders, and forms shaped deeply by local context.

Discipleship Essentials

Amy Page-Whiting

New faith communities don’t emerge from programmes, but from disciples who make disciples. Drawing on decades of practice, Amy explores key frameworks, models, and approaches that cultivate discipling cultures—communities where multiplication becomes natural and new churches begin to emerge.

Case Study: Clendon Salvation Army

Workshop details TBC (watch this space)

Panel: Church Leadership in Crisis

The Western church is approaching a leadership cliff. Burnout and retirement are outpacing the development of new leaders, and many churches are struggling to raise the next generation.

Panel: Christian Community Development

Across the world, many Christian leaders are turning their attention beyond the walls of the church and into the life of their neighbourhoods—through community organising, social enterprise, and long-term presence among their neighbours. This panel explores what it looks like to seek the flourishing of our neighbourhoods and the coming of God's Kingdom.

Panel: The Planters

This panel brings together four experienced church planters from diverse traditions, each carrying hard-won wisdom from the front lines of mission. Together, they’ll reflect honestly on the tensions, failures, and breakthroughs that come with forming new gospel communities—and offer grounded insight for those discerning a call to plant, pioneer, or multiply.

Case study: St James, Mangere

Mark Barnard

Case study: Parish revitalisation in Tikanga Māori through the story of St James.

Blended Traditions

Joseph Macauley

In this workshop, Joseph explores a generous orthodoxy that draws on the riches of the wider church—Catholic, Pentecostal, charismatic, and contemplative—and shares how these threads have been woven together in the life of St Luke's.

Panel: Fruitful Reconstruction

This panel brings together leaders who have wrestled with disappointment and emerged into constructive, hopeful, Spirit-led ways of planting new gospel communities.

How Churches Change

Nathan Hughes

Many have tried to realign existing churches away from comfort and toward mission, but too often the change doesn’t last.

Church Planting, Revitalisation and Missional Alignment - Catch Cohorts

Alongside hosting Little Revolutions, CATCH is continually training church planters and renewal leaders. Over the past three years, more than 60 Christian leaders have been equipped through CATCH cohorts in church planting, revitalisation, and missional realignment.

Remaking Movements for Fruitfulness

Justin Duckworth

What if our systems are working against us—built more for stability than mission, and unintentionally stifling the life we long to see?.

5Q and APEST

Alan Hirsch

This workshop introduces 5Q (APEST)—a framework drawn from Ephesians 4 that helps the church rediscover the full spectrum of Christ's leadership through apostles, prophets, evangelists, shepherds, and teachers.

Prayer Ministry

Whether you're tired, wired, or inspired, this is a space to bring the subtle invitations of the Holy Spirit into prayer with others. A team will be available to listen with you, pray with you, and help discern what God might be saying—and what your next steps could be.

Case Study: The Street City Church

Jenny and Simon Gill

Change and disruption can create an opportunity to rethink everything — and for The Street, a large Wellington church gathering in Mt Victoria and the Eastern suburbs, COVID-19 in 2020 did exactly that.

Revisiting the Quiet Revival

Chris Clarke

One year ago, CMS UK's Quiet Revival Report suggested a significant shift in spiritual hunger across the Western world.

Case Study: The House Church Network

James and Viv Anson

This case study will explore how these communities prioritise discipleship, shared leadership, and mission in everyday life, while remaining intentionally small and reproducible.

Rediscovering Missional DNA

Alan Hirsch

Alan Hirsch explores mDNA—the core elements that have consistently fueled Jesus movements across history. This session invites leaders to recover the church's "native genius": a simple but powerful pattern embedded within the gospel itself.