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Fresh Expressions Profile: Randall By the River
11 Nov 2019
Can Church happen outside, down by the river?
"It reminds us, every Sunday, it IS our Father's world."
Check out Randall By the River, a Fresh Expression of Randall UMC in Norwood, NC
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Fresh Expressions Profile: Open Hands
1 Nov 2019
A Video profile of an amazing Fresh Expression: "It’s like a family tree spreading and bringing more people in and it just blows me away! When you see someone that at one time not that long ago was on the very bottom and struggling and suffering and next thing you know they’re proclaiming the glory of God and how God has done it for them and what God can do for someone else."
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Fresh Expressions Featured in Christianity Today!
9 Oct 2019
Chris Backert, national director of Fresh Expressions US, says that too few “churches in North America have really grappled with the post-Christian reality.” Yet he believes that if churches seriously invest in tactical, contextual communities, the American church “can still make the shifts that are needed to be fruitful in the future. If churches wait another 10 years, that will be challenging.”
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FX Resource: How to Form Fresh Expressions of Church that Reach Across Cultures
27 Sep 2019
Since so many churches can be culturally homogeneous, one of the biggest opportunities for local churches is to start fresh expressions for people from different cultures.
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Turning What You Already Have into a Fresh Expression
Kris Beckert | 25 Sep 2019
“Tell me, what do you have in your house?” Sometimes people look at me like I have three heads when I share with them what it means to start fresh...
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FX Resource: The 4 Phases of Starting a New Kind of Church
20 Sep 2019
Fewer people want to be involved in traditional Churches. You and your church can start a "fresh expression"—a new kind of church, dedicated to people who don't go to church.
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Navigating the Both/And World through Fresh Expressions
Ann Marie Carley | 16 Sep 2019
This gift of discomfort was the catalyst needed to birth a movement of fresh expressions of church.
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“We’re Not Alone After All”: How the FX National Gathering Could Make a Difference for You!
Verlon Fosner | 9 Sep 2019
We had found our people. The tears rolled as my wife and I walked away from the final session and said to each other, “we are not alone after all!"
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Where is the Church in North America Heading and What are the Implications?
J.R. Briggs | 6 Sep 2019
Last month, I was in a room in Central Pennsylvania with North American leaders and kingdom practitioners from around the country for a retreat. After lunch we centered our conversation around this question: “Where is the Church in North America heading and what are the implications?” For those who know me, you know I am passionate about discussing a great question. And this certainly is a significant one.
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What’s Happening in North Carolina?
16 Aug 2019
Here’s the current reality in North Carolina: On any given Sunday only 22% of the population in Western North Carolina is in worship. Over the past two decades not one...
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FX Resource: Michael Moynagh- Developing Church in Every Context
1 Jul 2019
From the Post-Gathering at our 2014 FX National Gathering- Fresh Expressions in the Workplace A practical rationale for church for the workplace: A rapid tour through Christian views of work,...
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Fresh Expressions: For Such a Time as This!
Ann Marie Carley | 28 Jun 2019
It became clear that without altering our expectations of what church had to look like, our church as we knew and loved it would be in danger of no longer existing.