Church Planting, Leadership, Training
This week’s blog series is by Dave White, a missionary with OC International in The Philippines. He shares his experience using T4T. T4T is a set of principles that weaves together evangelism, evangelism training, discipleship, and leadership development, including...
Church Planting, New Church Planting
There was a church planter who had been very successful in numerous ministries. Every ministry he was a part of flourished, grew, and was excellent. He was successful in many different contexts, and had a kind of star quality within his denomination. Then he did his...
Church Planting, New Church Planting
In my work in recovery circles, one common slogan I’ve heard quite a lot is, “Don’t give up before the miracle happens, stick to it.” I think it applies just as well to church planters and ministry leaders. We want to give up. Often we quit before they get to the...
Church Planting, Missional
Lately I’ve been thinking through how Jesus made disciples, based on my observations of scripture. I’ll post one insight per day here. You can find all of them by searching “How Jesus made disciples” on my blog. Jesus expected that his disciples would make more...
Church Planting, New Church Planting
Recently a church of about 300 people, almost half of them children, moved from being a church plant to becoming an official self-governing church within its denomination. During the service, the planter/pastor shared some words he received from a church planting...
Church Planting, New Church Planting
I love coaching church planters. I’ve been doing it for many years now, and I’ve never ceased to be amazed at the endless creativity of planters adapting to their ministry contexts and the changing cultural landscapes. I’ve also noticed– even in the midst...
