I have a couple questions for churches sending people out as missionaries. How do you plan on staying in touch with them, and how do you plan on supporting them in ways other than financially? The truth is, cross-cultural workers need more than money from churches in America. As I wrote about last week, Acts [...]
Archive | June, 2010
Sending church: What, and why, is it?
In my line of ministry I receive quite a few e-mails and calls from people interested in leaving their home cultures and moving to new ones, either in the marketplace or with a mission sending organization. I love it. I celebrate what God may be doing in their lives. Yet regardless of each person’s specific [...]
JetSet – Nick Nye
JetSet: Turner & Grimes (video)
Johnny Grimes is the church planter and lead pastor of Branch Life Church in Birmingham. Joseph Turner is the planter and pastor at Sojourn Community Church in Houston. Both of these guys are committed to incorporating mission both locally and internationally into the DNA of their church from the beginning.
Jet Set: Steve Timmis (video)
Steve Timmis, leading Acts 29 in Western Europe, shares with Ed Stetzer about the need for the gospel to move forward in what many have called the future of the U.S. in terms of a secular, post-Christian culture through church planting.
Insight on sending churches
A businessman packs his belongings as he prepares to move to his company’s international office. He feels God is calling him to be a voice among his peers and neighbors in a location where Christ-followers are few. In another place a couple quietly concludes they both feel they need to follow God’s direction in serving [...]
Strategy: Reaching French youth
France is home of the father of the existential movement and many of the preeminent postmodern thinkers including Derrida, Lyotard and Foucault, and accordingly is a leader in influence and development as a post-Christian context. Even though one of the favorite voices of young people in Paris today is that of the devout believer Blaise [...]
Living the example
One Sunday morning Michael Anderson decided it was time his students put to action what they had been learning. On that Valentine’s Day he had been sharing with the members of his youth group about love, and presented them with a challenge. Michael split the students into two groups–guys and girls–and gave each team $10 [...]
Jet Set London Debrief #1
JetSet: Harrison on church in France
Paul Harris is a French pastor and church planter–at two different churches simultaneously. In addition to sharing about this, he gives some perspective on the challenges of working in the advanced post-Christian culture known as Paris.
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