Shawn Lovejoy is one of the sharpest guys in the church planting world. As a guy who is dedicated to planting churches in Minnesota, it was fun reading this on his blog tonight: A friend of mine sent me this picture from a recent business trip he had taken. On his trip, he passed [...]
Archive for October, 2008
Look Out Mt. Lake
Posted in Church Planting, Worth Dreaming About on October 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Church Planting in Small Towns
Posted in Church Planting on October 20, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Though I’ve only been on the ground with my new church plant. Epiphany Station, in Thief River Falls, MN for a scant 3 1/2 months, it has been long enough to gather some initial observations of church planting in smaller communities. Since my previous plant was in a large city, many of my observations are [...]
Recommended Reading
Posted in Resources on October 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I was looking to put some reading resources together and found some great PDF’s and an awesome list of Books at http://www.newchurches.com: New Churches recommended reading list Recommended PDF’s Annotated Church Planting Bibliography by Ed Stetzer (pdf) *UPDATED OCT 2006 Calvary chapel (pdf) History of Calvary Chapel (pdf) The Vineyard Movement (pdf) Ed Stetzer‘s writings [...]
How’s the Planting Thing Going
Posted in Church Planting, Converge Worldwide, Statistics on October 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I was reading Walt Moser’s Blog and saw that he is reporting that Converge Worldwide planted over 200 churches between 2000-2005. There was an average weekly attendance in 2007 of 154 people which impacted 22,847 individuals. In our church plants we baptized 1,916 in 2007.
TeAmerica becomes ConvergeUSA
Posted in Assessment Center, Church Planting on October 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Paul Johnson, Senior Vice-President of the Converge Worldwide/BGC, Tom Nebel, the Director of Global Church Planting and Leadership Development and Gary Rohrmayer, the National Director of ConvergeUSA. Listen in as they have an informative conversation on the history of TeAmerica and the future of ConvergeUSA. Click Here to Listen
Why We Value our Annual Church Planters Retreat
Posted in Church Planting on October 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We (that’s the Minnesota Baptist Conference) just wrapped up our annual church planters retreat in Lanesboro, MN. Over 30 planters and spouses from across MN (and one from IA!) were there. As usual, it was a great time! I was talking to a first-time attender who was a little new to our group and as [...]
Exponential Conference
Posted in Conferences on October 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Exponential Conference is taking shape and looking hot. I am planning to be there and am looking forward to having a few potential planters with me. Here is what the line up is looking like:
ConvergeUSA Assessment Center
Posted in Assessment Center on October 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
THIS IS FROM THE NEW CONVERGEUSA BLOG: In the early nineties, under the leadership of Paul Johnson, the TeAmerica Church Planting Assessment Center was born. The TeAmerica Assessment Center is one of the longest running, most influential and highly trusted Assessment Centers in the country. The ConvergeUSA Assessment Center is beginning a whole new era [...]
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