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We’ve worshipped three weeks and here are some of my reflections: – We’ve had 415, 350 and 308 in worship the first few weeks. I am extremely exctied at the relatively small drop in attendance over our first few weeks! – All of our volunteer crews have done an extraordinary job! Things have been amazingly [...]
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Foundry Fry Prayer Walks
What a great weekend. Our Foundry @ Fry Team distributed close to 500 Cypress Saplings to area homes and prayed for people’s needs all to show God’s love in a practical way. The cards that went with our gifts looked like this (click the picture for a larger view): Despite the natural apprehension that we all [...]
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Monday I arrived at Mount Sequoyahin Fayetteville, Arkansas for the second retreat in the New Church Leadership Institute(NCLI). From some of the literature NCLI is… “Equipping potential new church pastors with the knowledge and skills for a successful new church start.” Yesterday afternoon and this morning I was supposed to be apart of the “Catching [...]
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Church Plant?
I thought this was a good article on church planting and the purpose of starting a new church: http://realmealministries.org/WordPress/?p=404
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church planting quotes
On reaching the cities, Darren Patrick from Acts 29 Network said: “Don’t just build a good church, build a great city.” On the challenges of church-planting, Shawn Loveless from Mountain Lake Community Church said: “Don’t use people to get ministry done. Use ministry to get people done.” On starting new churches versus changing existing churches, [...]
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Meeting with Ken
I feel privileged to have Ken Werlein (pictured above) as our church-planting coach. Ken is the founding pastor of Faithbridge, a fast growing church plant in Northwest Houston (here is a good article about them from a couple of years ago in Good News Magazine). Ken is great to hang out with and has loads [...]
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People, Place, Purpose Update
I’m back from the blogging dead. The last couple of week’s have been so crazy, I haven’t made time to write much. My wife’s blog is making me look bad! Her’s is full of great family stuff. We’ve been praying for these three “Ps” and I have really had an exciting week in seeing the development [...]
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People, Place, Purpose
We had our first small gathering of people for the new Fry Road Campus. What a fun night and what a great bunch of people. I know I keep saying that, but I just can’t get over how many great people God is bringing together. He is giving us all such a vision to reach this [...]
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The following are my thoughts on what we can’t afford to do at Foundry when we go multi-site. These thoughts come after attending the National New Church Conf. and Jim Griffith’s boot camp for church planters: 1. Neglect Prayer Effort 2. Fail to Raise a Suitable Launch Team 3. Fail to Communicate Essentials/Train Existing Staff [...]
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NNCC Take Aways
I went to NNCC expecting to understand a bit more about the church planting endeavor, particularly in the arena of multi-site churches. It was a well done conference for the most part and I felt I grew a good bit by attending. Here are the main things I am walking away with: 1. I went [...]
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