In the 1980’s, leaders gathered for friendship and training around Barney Coombs’ pastoral and apostolic leadership. This family now reaches into many nations.

“He was accompanied by valiant men whose hearts God had touched.” (1 Samuel 10:26) 

This was the word God gave to Barney Coombs on the day that he was ordained to pastor God's people in the late sixties. Within a few years, a group of leaders and ministries in the south of England began to be linked together around Barney's leadership. All were caught by the revelation that the body of Christ was essentially relational and would eventually come to fullness of stature. All believed in the priesthood of all believers and that the gospel was not only centered in the Cross but also in the Kingdom of God. All fervently believed in a victorious eschatology and that God's plan included the summing up of all things in Christ.

During the last thirty-odd years, hundreds of other leaders and ministries have felt joined in heart, and today there exists a network of leaders and churches that has spread to Africa, Asia, Europe, India and the American continent.

It is difficult to adequately grasp the full significance of being joined to so many valiant men and women, many of whom have hazarded their lives for the gospel's sake; but it has happened. We can only stand back and marvel at God's marvellous handiwork.