Posted in Church Planter, Church Planting on November 9, 2008 | No Comments »
Getting ready for the Minnesota Baptist Conference Annual Meeting, as well as some opportunities in January to share the story of our church planting movement, I put together a couple of video’s.
This video speaks to our value of churches planting churches.
Here’s a snapshot of what happened in some of our church [...]
Posted in Church Planting, Worth Dreaming About on October 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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 through Mountain [...]
Posted in Church Planting on October 20, 2008 | No 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 [...]
Posted in Church Planting, Converge Worldwide, Statistics on October 11, 2008 | No Comments »
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.
Posted in Assessment Center, Church Planting on October 9, 2008 | No Comments »
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
Posted in Church Planting on October 8, 2008 | No Comments »
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 I [...]
Posted in Church Planting on May 28, 2008 | No Comments »
We see it everywhere across the Western hemisphere - in the cities, the older suburbs, towns large and small, and dotted across the rural landscape - churches that are stuck, stagnant and declining. All of these churches began as church plants 20, 50, 100, 200 years ago, but now they are just shells of their [...]
Posted in Church Growth, Church Planting on May 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Yesterday, I was privileged to hear and learn about the state of the American church from David Olson. His book, that was recently published by Zondervan is described as:
Groundbreaking research based on a national database of over 200,000 churches reveals that the overall population growth rate far outpaces the church’s rate of growth. What does [...]
Posted in Church Planting on March 7, 2008 | No Comments »
We want to point people to God’
New church sprouting in fertile Brainerd lakes area
By HEIDI LAKE
Staff Writer
The Brainerd lakes area seems to be fertile ground for planting churches.
The latest sprout to pop up is Pointway Church, a branch of the Christian and Missionary Alliance’s northwestern district.
Steve Erickson, church planter and Pointway’s pastor, said the northwestern [...]
Posted in Church Planting on December 12, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I have had the unfortunate experience of leading a church through two separate cases of church discipline. The most recent case reminded me of similar events that went down in the young church plant I led.
When you’re a church plant the temptation is to take anyone and everyone that has a pulse. We had a [...]
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