Church Planting, New Church Planting
One of my coaching clients showed me this demographic resource. I wanted to share it here on my blog as it seems like it could be a helpful tool for many of my readers in the United States. The 2010 U.S. Religion Census: Religious Congregations & Membership Study...
Church Planting, New Church Planting
Alpha– although not originally designed as an approach to church planting– is particularly well suited to that role. (If you’re not familiar with Alpha, you can find out more here.) It’s a relational, postmodern process geared toward people who don’t...
Church Planting, Leadership, Networking
We’ve just completed a series on church planting and incarnational living in small towns and rural areas. The concept is small handfuls of people in each geographic community who meet together regularly, yet are networked with similar groups across the region. Imagine...
Church Planting, New Church Planting
By guest blogger Justin Barney In 2012, my family and I left a suburb of Philadelphia (one of the largest cities in America) to plant a church in Keene, a small, micropolitan town of about 25,000 people in southwest New Hampshire. Why? Because God called us back to...
Church Planting, Leadership, Networking
I recently had a delightful time meeting with a group of church planters and pastors who have a vision to plant churches across rural and small town areas. Now if you’re thinking of planting traditional types of churches, that can be overwhelming in a rural context....
