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Farm Church: Planting Seeds of Faith in a Garden
Emily Daly | 10 Apr 2018
Durham, North Carolina– It’s Palm Sunday. You stand in rows outside with your fellow gardeners, waving leaves over a man sitting in a wheelbarrow. It is a rural reenactment of...
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Four Questions to Ask to Avoid a Ministry Meltdown
Kris Beckert | 23 Jan 2018
It popped across my newsfeed as the snow was falling outside. The first significant snowfall of 2018 had arrived here in Virginia, and I was sitting at my desk in...
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3 Core Teachings from Jesus to His Pioneers
Chris Morton | 24 Jul 2017
I’m on my third attempt to start a new church. Attempt number 1 was in 2006 when I was only 23 years old. Like a lot of things from that...
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Remembering Our Responsibility: Learning to Serve the Poor
Verlon Fosner | 3 Jul 2017
How should the church respond to the call to serve the poor? Many Fresh Expression Churches will have the opportunity to engage with people from the lower third of the...
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Loving the Lord with Our Health
Michael Beck | 6 Mar 2017
Pioneering is tough! Not only do we face opposition from the inhabitants of the new territories into which we follow the Spirit to plant the Gospel, but when we are...
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Millennials Got a Bad Deal. Now Here’s What They Need from Church.
Gannon Sims | 21 Dec 2016
I was told when I get older all my fears would shrink But now I’m insecure and I care what people think. Wish we could turn back time, to the...
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The High Cost of Being an Intercessor
David Aikman | 15 Aug 2016
Throughout my many decades as a follower of Jesus I have found myself tremulously playing the role of a counselor, and—though never officially—that of a pastor, a teacher, occasionally even...
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The Ananias Project
14 Jun 2016
Read more about The Ananias Project Here. To register for our next Ananias Retreat, email Cheryl. Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Email Free Webinar on Church Revitalization "How Listening...
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Three Ways the National Gathering has Improved My Understanding of Mission
Chris Morton | 4 May 2016
It’s been a few weeks now since attending the Fresh Expressions National Gathering AND: Being the Church at Church at Home and Everywhere in Between. Despite being involved with Fresh...
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Three Options to Reach the Unchurched
Travis Collins | 6 Jan 2016
Theology, the “Queen of the Sciences,” had its beginning in mission fields, not academic halls. The Christian faith’s most important theologian, the apostle Paul, was first and foremost a missionary....
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What makes R2-D2 preach
Kris Beckert | 21 Dec 2015
For our church, Advent was going to be a little different this year. While church people have been preparing themselves for the coming of Christ throughout the season of Advent,...
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Staying Alert to God: A Starting Point for Holiness and Fresh Expressions
Gannon Sims | 14 Dec 2015
Lyricist Charles Jennens picked these words from the third chapter of Malachi. George Frederick Handel put them to music in the oratorio Messiah: For he is like a refiner’s fire....