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...
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...
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, 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
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...
