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I recently visited Sapporo, Japan. The snow was beautiful and preparations for the Ice Festival were quite interesting. Brought along an extra suitcase filled with winter clothes only to find the daily weather unusually warm, but still freezing overnight. We got fresh snow each morning. Then enough sun to make the snow soggy. Each night [...]

I met an interesting congregation on one of my recent teaching trips. They call themselves “The Oregon Community.” They are a fairly recent church plant with an intense focus on meeting the needs of their local community. Outgrowing a rented facility gave a whole new opportunity for the church to link itself to the community. [...]

A QR code (which stands for quick response) is a two dimensional bar code that looks like a black and white patterned square. It can be encoded with information of various kinds, like a website, e-mail address, coupon, map location, movie trailers, simple text or phone number. QR codes have the capacity to store much [...]

I’ve heard the statement, “Don’t plant a church, plant the Gospel.” I understand that statement because I know the context, but I really feel that such statements bring confusion, especially to those who try to explain that within the context of church planting. I completely agree with the premise that fuels that statement. We are [...]

The circle of trust for a church leader’s family, especially for a church planter’s family, can be a small place. By nature, starting a new church has a lot to do with the journey of the new church staff members, and by close association, the story of their spouses and children. This creates an unusually [...]

If you’re like me, the minute you have an idea, you want to go to press with it. To hit send. To launch it publically. By the time I’m sharing an idea, I’m already doing it, right? But nothing could be more dangerous. Great ideas can fall short when they’re not executed properly. There is [...]

Want to know where God is taking his church in the future? Want to know what the church will look like over the next five years? Who doesn’t? The answer is found “at the edges” where church planters live and minister. Look to what church planters are doing and you’ll see what God is doing. [...]