"Kid’s Action Night – is running in Tampere and it works well," reports Atte Helminen from Finland. "Some 80 community kids come regularly for this action and spiritually filled event." Established churches, church plants and home churches are using this ministry idea. Go to http://www.kidsactionnight.fi/index.php?sivu=english to get details on how it works. This is something you could use… Continue reading
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next1000 Church Plants in Australia
next1000 is a partnership of individuals, churches and organizations actively committed to planting one thousand new Australian churches. Visit the website http://www.next1000.org/ to learn more or to download a copy of the next1000 ebook.
Kind or Right?
It's More Important To Be Kind Than Right. It was with these words that Jim Henderson introduced this years Off The Map event called You Say You Want A Revolution. Jim says, "Many theologian types in the room breathed a sigh of relief when Brian McLaren got up and modified my intro with: 'I'm not sure… Continue reading
Frost/Hirsch – Shaping
Frost, Michael & Hirsch, Alan. The Shaping of Things to Come. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 2003. Frost and Hirsch propose, and build their book upon, three overarching principles that they see as basic to emerging or missional church and further inform the value we’ll come to you. I have found it extremely valuable to explore… Continue reading
Foster – Living Water
Foster, Richard. Streams of Living Water. San Francisco, CA: Harper Collins, 1998. Foster identifies six traditions or streams of the Holy Spirit’s activity – identifying the impact of these streams in the life and ministry of Jesus, in a biblical context, in history and in a contemporary paradigm. Each chapter explores a tradition and follows… Continue reading
RE:VIVE at the Carnival
"Last year we had a stall at the carnival in Grantham (England) and this year we did it again," says Fiona Selvage. This year the re:vive planting team painted jungle animals onto kid's faces for their next set of programs for re:vive kids is following this theme. “We now have about 18 children from the community coming… Continue reading
Barna – Revolution
Barna, George. Revolution. Carol Springs, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 2005. Barna suggests that we are seeing the most significant recalibration of local church for over 150 years. He believes research is indicating we are in the midst of a revival that is radically different to all previous revivals, in that this spiritual revolution in the… Continue reading
McLaren – More Ready!
McLaren, Brian. More Ready than You Realize. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2002. I have read McLaren’s Finding Faith (1999), The Church on the Other Side (2002) – and am reading The Secret Message of Jesus (2006) – however, the book that I have enjoyed the most so far was More Ready than You Realize. Within… Continue reading
Barna Chooses to be a Revolutionary!
George Barna has been persuaded by his own research to be a spiritual revolutionary! He sees that all are in a spiritual battle and that God will use “a remnant sold out to Him” to bring about radical spiritual transformation. Many have been reading George Barna’s research and books for years. But there is something different… Continue reading
NEWS 23 Nov 06
Hello Planters, Since our last NEWS I attended the Revolution Conference in Seattle – where Brian McLaren and George Barna were the main speakers. I have posted ideas and some great ministry ideas from the conference on a NEW blog which you can find by using ‘control + click’ on https://www.newchurchlife.com/. (Note this is a new site since the… Continue reading