T4T: The progression of stories

T4T: The progression of stories

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...
T4T: Keeping it simple

T4T: Keeping it simple

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...
T4T: The power of Bible stories

T4T: The power of Bible stories

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

Learning from T4T

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

Autopsy of a failed church plant

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...
Where are people gathering?

Where are people gathering?

Church planters talk all the time about the trouble we have gathering people. Yet when we look at it from another perspective, people gather all the time. I heard Jay Pathak speak recently and he asked the question, “Where are people gathering and why?” They gather in...
Stick-to-it-tive-ness

Stick-to-it-tive-ness

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...
Making an eternal difference

Making an eternal difference

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...