Springs
still rise in
dry ground.
A disciple making ministry based in Oxford — activating believers to multiply, and helping seekers discover who Jesus is.
Europe was once the heartland of the faith — today it holds the lowest proportion of Christians of any continent.
We long to see a fresh experience of the Spirit of God well up again. Chartwell — ancient English for “a spring rising in dry ground.”
“Therefore go and make disciples of all nations…teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.”
Find your way in.
Come and serve.
Get involved →Activating disciple makers — two ways.
Every disciple of Jesus is called to make disciples. We help that happen on two fronts at once: stirring believers to multiply, and walking with those still discovering who Jesus is.
Discover Jesus
We help those who don't yet believe discover who Jesus is — and then be activated to make disciples themselves. Seekers don't just become followers; they become sent ones.
- → Honest spaces to encounter Jesus
- → From seeker to disciple to disciple maker
- → Activated, not just informed
Discover disciple making
We help existing believers discover how to make disciples — and then multiply. Not another programme, but a way of life passed hand to hand, household to household, until movements take root.
- → Equipping believers to disciple others
- → Multiplying simple, reproducible practices
- → Seeing disciple making movements emerge
“Therefore go and make disciples of all nations…teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.”
Ready to be activated?
Get involved →The Oxford Disciple Making Residency.
Learn to do mission on the ground. Nine months living in community, putting disciple making into practice in Oxford and across Europe.
Not a training course — an incubator for disciple making movements.
Nine months living in community — learning to make disciples on the ground.
Residency · in communityThe details
min. 20 hrs / week
Training and travel — visit emerging movements.
The support figure covers visa, travel, and living costs for one person in community over the nine months — including visits to emerging disciple making movements across Europe and beyond.
Want the whole story?
Vision and values, the weekly rhythm, life in community, the curriculum, and how we send people out — it's all laid out in detail.
Tell me more →Spend nine months on the ground.
Apply / enquire →Inside the Residency.
Everything that shapes nine months in Oxford — the vision behind it, the values we live by, the weekly rhythm, the community you'll share, and the way we send people out.
We dream of an unprecedented outpouring of the Spirit — countless followers of Jesus who make disciples and spawn movements that cross every cultural, religious, and social boundary.
To inspire and equip a new generation of disciple makers to understand and live out their God-given identity, gifting, and calling.
Come as you are.
Young people willing to give of their time and talent.
Gap year, students, professionals — anyone able to give at least 20 hours a week.
UK nationals, Europeans, and internationals all welcome.
Leave activated.
Nine months, full or part-time — a minimum of twenty hours a week.
- → Weekly training, mentoring, gatherings, outreach, and sabbath
- → Monthly prayer retreats
- → Two or three mission trips to European partners — Germany, Hungary, Ukraine
The curriculum.
Four phases.
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Support-raised.
Participants raise the funds needed to cover their visa, travel, and living in community across the nine months. Costs typically include:
Could this be your year?
A place to be
refreshed & sent.
A ministry property and a hub for the cycle of disciple making — a place to connect with the Spirit of God, be replenished, and go out again.
The rhythm.
Step out of the rush. The gardens are a doorway — a threshold into rest and presence.
Connect with the Spirit of God. Be refreshed and replenished — the spring rising again within.
Go out again. Refilled and commissioned, back into the work of making disciples.
A hub for the whole cycle of disciple making — come in, be renewed, be sent.
See the gardens.
Five glimpses of the grounds at Chartwell.
Come and be replenished.
Plan a visit →Better together.
Disciple making movements grow through relationship. We're glad to labour alongside these organisations across mission, prayer, and the local church.
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Visit website →New partnerships are always emerging.
Let's labour together.
Start a conversation →Three ways in.
However God is stirring you, there's a way to join what's rising. Pray, partner, or give.
Pray
Stand with us in prayer for springs to rise across Europe — for seekers, disciples, and movements.
Partner
Walk & learn with us as a church, organisation, or sending base. Better together.
Give
Resource workers and the wider mission — help carry living water to dry ground.
Get in touch.
Tell us a little about you and how you'd like to be part of what God is doing. We'll be in touch.
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Thank you.
Your message is on its way. We'll be in touch soon — grace and peace.
A spring rising in dry ground.
Chartwell Ministries is a disciple making ministry based in Oxford, UK, operating across Europe — activating disciples of Jesus in Oxford and around the world.
The meaning of the name
“Chartwell” is ancient English for a spring rising in dry ground. Europe was once the heartland of the faith but has drifted from its Judeo-Christian foundations, and now has the lowest proportion of Christians of any continent.
We long to see spiritual vitality — a fresh experience of the Spirit of God — well up again, from Oxford to the ends of Europe. But springs still rise in dry ground.
Activating disciple makers — two ways.
Our trustees.
The board that holds Chartwell accountable — overseeing its mission, governance, and stewardship.
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The values we live by.
The convictions that shape how we lead, make disciples, and take new ground.
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