Christian Selvaratnum

Christian Selvaratnam is the Dean of Church Planting at St Hild Theological College where he is the founder of the Church Planting Track, the Centre for Church Planting and the Seedbed training programme. Before this, he worked for fifteen years at Alpha UK in various roles, including National Director, and concurrently for fourteen years as the Ordained Leader of G2, an Anglican church plant in York. Over the last twenty-five years, Christian has directly planted two churches and sent out and supported several others. More widely, he is involved in training leaders and advising on church planting, innovation, mission and church growth and vocations, particularly in the North of England.

Christian is the author of several teaching modules, training courses and books, including Why Plant Churches? Theological and Practical Reasons for Starting New Christian Communities (Grove 2023), The Craft of Church Planting: Exploring the Lost Wisdom of Apprenticeship (SCM Press 2022) and Alpha as a Church Planting Tool (Alpha International 2017).