Church Planting
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Posted on July 25, 2011, 2:40 pm
Topics: Church Planting
I’ve had the opportunity to see what the Father is doing in India through the careful distribution of simple, paper tracts. The numbers are so vast, they can only be believed when I recognize the immense power of God to use a low-caste slum dweller with a Gospel tract to bring a Hindu to faith in Jesus.
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Posted on June 14, 2011, 11:28 am
Topics: Church Planting
Can you imagine being a motivational speaker named Boring? Christian Reformed Home Missions hosted an event on June 6 in which Nick Boring spoke of his journey from a career as a corporate executive into ministry, and his passion to help churches plant churches. This event brought together
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Posted on April 4, 2011, 11:41 am | 1 comment
Topics: Church Planting
I'm on a college tour with my daughter this week. One of the other dads grew up in Dearborn, Michigan, which has since become the center of Arab-American settlement in the United States. He said that he's had many conversations with people who lamented the arrival of this community in their area. His response was
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Posted on December 16, 2010, 4:33 pm
Topics: Church Planting
Prayer is the foundation for mission, whether that activity happens across the street or around the world. This January Christian Reformed congregations are being called to a 28 day prayer vigil by Home Missions and World Missions with a focus on the workers and the work of evangelism. This campaign has occured in January for a number of years in various formats. This year it features
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Posted on June 11, 2010, 8:42 am
Topics: Church Planting
Often new church starts think that international missions is great . . . but must wait until the church is up and running. This resource focuses on the concept of building an international component into the DNA of the church from its beginning.
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Posted on May 24, 2010, 5:58 am
Topics: Church Planting
Imagine an ongoing learning and training system in which the difference between participant and leader is minimal and there is a spirit of unity and growth in which persons at every level and stage of leadership within a cluster are multi-dimensionally co-mentored and multi-directionally mentored on an ongoing basis.
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Posted on May 14, 2010, 8:51 am
Topics: Church Planting
Many individuals and groups are asking how to get a ministry cluster going. This paper will offer a step-by-step approach, with this proviso: This is a basic template, not a blueprint. There is no need to copy this in total. Each cluster will have its own unique character, or DNA. Yet, what you will read here is a common methodology that appears to be working.
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Posted on May 1, 2010, 9:16 am | 1 comment
Topics: Church Planting
Different cultures, generations, personalities and contextualized needs in a world of growing diversity call us away from prescribing models and toward the naming of underlying principles which describe how the mission of Jesus Christ can be advanced. Of course, models will emerge from various settings ...
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Posted on April 27, 2010, 1:10 pm
Topics: Church Planting
We are beginning to dream and talk about ministry clusters within the CRCNA. Perhaps it is good to take some time and space to define what we mean when we say “cluster”. I would offer a working definition stating that
“A cluster is a localized gathering of church and ministry leaders sharing a common vision, strategy, resources and system for developing leadership, planting new churches and ministries as well as adding to the health and vitality of existing churches. This synergistic effort is undertaken for the sake of the Gospel.
In addition to a working definition, it is essential...
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Posted on April 27, 2010, 1:04 pm
Topics: Church Planting
I spent the 1985-86 school year as a seminary intern in the recently planted Fairfield (CA) Christian Reformed Church. It was exciting to be part of building (literally) a new church in a community where the CRC had not been represented. It was, according to the protocol of the day, quite a ways from other CRCs of any kind and even farther from a recently planted congregation. This had its blessings, but also its challenges. I'm glad to say that a new and more effective approach is now being used
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