Planting Papers.

In the last couple of months I have read and summarised (where necessary) the editions of the journal “Planting Papers”.  Planting Papers was the official Baptist Church Planting journal and ran from 1991 to 1993.

• The group that organised it were originally known as BACUP and became known as the 1.3.6 group in 1992 when another organistaion using the acronym BACUP objected.
• As far as I can make out, in the early 1990′s there was an expectation that Church Planting would become part of the Baptist Unions Official Stratgy.
• BACUP was oficially closed when the Baptist Union Mission Department formed the “Church Planting Strategy Task Group” (Cartwright, 1993, Editorial Issue 9, p1).
• The task group has somewhere vanished into the depths of history.  Hopefully I will be able to find where it went as my research continues.

I have digitised the editions of “Planting Papers” (it is a posh way of saying photographed them).  There are a couple of gaps, but I have posed the images here: http://newconnexion.info/planting-papers/.  Hopefully we will be able to integrate them into a more coherant historical archive at the http://incarnate-newtork.eu/ web site, but for the moment we can’t decide how best to do that.

Complete list of all the articles in Planting Papers:
Arn, A. (1992). Seven reasons to start new churches. Planting Papers, 5, 9–10.  [Bigliographic Details]
Barlow, G., Hill, S., & Cartwright, C. (1992). 2001 by 2001: The mathmatics. Planting Papers, 5, 1–4.  [Bigliographic Details]
Barlow, G. (1993). Talks to "the president": Interview with b.u. president, eric westwood. Planting Papers, 7, 8–11.  [Bigliographic Details]
Barlow, G. (1993). Consultants in church planting. Planting Papers, 7, 11.  [Bigliographic Details]
Berry, J. (1992). Church planting in rural areas. Planting Papers, 4, 6.  [Bigliographic Details]
Cartwright, C. (1993). Facing a task unfinished. Planting Papers(8), 9–12.  [Bigliographic Details]
Cartwright, C. (1993). Flogging an imaginary hoby horse: Editors reply to phil jump. Planting Papers(8), 16–17.  [Bigliographic Details]
Cartwright, C. (1993). Ediorial (issue 9). Planting Papers(9), 1–2.  [Bigliographic Details]
Christine, S. (1991). Editorial: The planting decade? Planting Papers, 1, 1–2.  [Bigliographic Details]
Claydon, J. (1992). Church planting in the east midlands. Planting Papers, 6, 5–9.  [Bigliographic Details]
Claydon, J. (1993). A challenge to the associations. Planting Papers(9), 6–8.  [Bigliographic Details]
Coffe, D. (1991). From the bac room. Planting Papers, 1, 8.  [Bigliographic Details]
Dennision, J. (1991). Willow creek – a new philosophy for ministry. Planting Papers, 3, 7–9.  [Bigliographic Details]
Doubleday, C. (1992). Church planting in eastern europe. Planting Papers, 5, 12–14.  [Bigliographic Details]
Drummond, I. (1992). Seed, vegetable or landscape. Planting Papers, 4, 7–8.  [Bigliographic Details]
Fanstone, M. (1993). Why people leave churches. Planting Papers(8), 7–8.  [Bigliographic Details]
Finnell, D. (1991). Power planting. Planting Papers, 2, 2–3.  [Bigliographic Details]
Forster, C. (1993). Dawn update. Planting Papers, 7, 12–14.  [Bigliographic Details]
Forster, R. (1991). The primacy of pioneering over pastoring. Planting Papers, 1, 2–3.  [Bigliographic Details]
Frost, R. (1991). From the sharp end: A community approach to church planting. Planting Papers, 1, 6–7.  [Bigliographic Details]
Hearn, M. (1991). Planting people, the human factor. Planting Papers, 3, 1-–3.  [Bigliographic Details]
Hill, S., & Barlow, G. (1991). From the bac room: A 10 point manifesto for the centrality of church planting in the denominational mission policy. Planting Papers, 2, 9–10.  [Bigliographic Details]
Hill, S., & Barlow, G. (1991). From the sharp end: The church for the unchurched. Planting Papers, 2–3.  [Bigliographic Details]
Hooton, M. (1992). B.i.c.e.c. conference review. Planting Papers, 5, 8–9.  [Bigliographic Details]
Hopkins, B. (1992). The significance of the sent-unit size. Planting Papers, 4.  [Bigliographic Details]
Jackson, P. (1991). Bacup conference review. Planting Papers, 3, 10–11.  [Bigliographic Details]
James, J. (1993). From the sharp end: Plans, pains and progress. Planting Papers, 7, 5–7.  [Bigliographic Details]
Jenkins, G. (1992). Report ona sabbatical church planting course at spurgeons college – spring 1991. Planting Papers, 4, 7–8.  [Bigliographic Details]
Jump, P. (1993). Mainstream or back-water? Planting Papers, 7, 15–16.  [Bigliographic Details]
Maile, J., & Woolgar, G. (1992). From the sharp end: Planting shrublands. Planting Papers, 5, 6–8.  [Bigliographic Details]
Misselbrook, L. (1991). To build or not to build: A checklist for church planters. Planting Papers, 3, 4–5.  [Bigliographic Details]
Murray, S. (1992). Inner cities: A church planting priority. Planting Papers, 4, 4–5.  [Bigliographic Details]
Murray, S. (1993). More churches or new churches? Planting Papers, 7, 1–4.  [Bigliographic Details]
Nicholls, M. (1991). Spurgeon and church planting. Planting Papers, 2, 4–6.  [Bigliographic Details]
Parkes, R. (1991). From the sharp end: Using community networks. Planting Papers, 3, 3–4.  [Bigliographic Details]
Pawley, P. (1992). A shinig example: Growing and multiplying churches in st. helens. Planting Papers, 6, 1–4.  [Bigliographic Details]
Radcliffe, B. (1993). The human cost of new churches. Planting Papers(9), 3–5.  [Bigliographic Details]
Reynolds, G. (1993). From the sharp end: Small is beautiful – a case study. Planting Papers(8), 5–6.  [Bigliographic Details]
Roberts, J. (1993). From the sharp end: Stubbingdon – a case study from john roberts research. Planting Papers(9), 9-11.  [Bigliographic Details]
Roberts, J. (1993). Looking back. Planting Papers(9), 12–15.  [Bigliographic Details]
Shepherd, P. (1992). Our ignorance, god’s wisdom: Lessons learned from coulby newham, middlesborough. Planting Papers, 6, 14–18.  [Bigliographic Details]
Spriggs, D. (1993). Planting authentic churches. Planting Papers(8), 1–4.  [Bigliographic Details]
Sutton, R. (1991). Failure factors: Reflections on a church planting survey. Planting Papers, 2, 6–7.  [Bigliographic Details]
Tidball, D. (1991). Letter to the editor from derek tidball (b.u. secretary for mission and evangelism). Planting Papers, 3, 9–10.  [Bigliographic Details]
Tidball, D. (1992). From the bac room: Views from the mission office for 1992. Planting Papers, 4, 11–12.  [Bigliographic Details]
Warner, R. (1991). The folly of photocopying. Planting Papers, 1, 3–6.  [Bigliographic Details]
Wright, N. (1992). Evangelism and religious liberty. Planting Papers, 5, 4–6.  [Bigliographic Details]