T4T: The power of Bible stories

New Church Planting

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...

Learning from T4T

New Church Planting, Outreach

This week’s blog series is by Dave White, a missionary with OC International in The Philippines. He shares his experience using T4T. T4T (Training for Trainers) is a set of principles that weaves together evangelism, evangelism training, discipleship, and leadership...

Autopsy of a failed church plant

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...

Stick-to-it-tive-ness

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...
New resource: Leading Church Multiplication

New resource: Leading Church Multiplication

New Church Planting

For those of you responsible for overseeing churches started, a new book by Tom Nebel and Steve Pike was recently released. Leading Church Multiplication has clearly been written by people who have sat in your chair. They have sought to stimulate and resource church...

Making an eternal difference

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...