by Neil Cole | Sep 22, 2021 | Church Leadership, Church Planting, Discipleship, Small Church / Rural Church
ANTS!!! It seems that no matter what I do they become more. They are in the kitchen, the bathroom, the dining room, the living room, outside, inside, upstairs, downstairs…they’re omnipresent! The Bible says that we should “Go to the ant, (Prov. 6:6)” but I don’t...
by Ralph Moore | Apr 15, 2019 | Church Leadership, Church Planting
A few years ago I spent a week teaching disciple-making and church multiplication to pastors in Thailand. On that trip I met a man, with no formal education, who has launched 47 highly successful churches. He ministers among the “hill tribes” in the...
by Bob Logan | Dec 6, 2012 | Church Leadership, Church Planting
Many years ago I was asked to lead a retreat with leaders of a parent church and leaders of a soon-to-be-formed daughter church. They wanted to address “the emotional dimensions of church planting,” specifically between a mother church and a daughter church. I...
by Ralph Moore | Sep 20, 2012 | Church Planting, Outreach and Evangelism
I recently spent a week training church planters in France. What I saw was extremely encouraging. According to a Christianity Today article written several years ago a new church pops up, in France, every 11 days (http://goo.gl/KMxmz). The group I was with has grown...
by Linda Bergquist | Sep 17, 2012 | Church Leadership, Church Planting
A new article released by Leadership Network claims that there are now over 5,000 multisite churches in North America, and that the rate of their growth now outpaces the growth of the numbers of mega-churches. There are all kinds of other important findings too. For...