NewChurchLife

“We are a bunch of girls who love the Lord - and love being together,” explains Adele. They get together to share cookies - and to worship and pray for each other. Their next meeting will be in an inner Melbourne city garden. “We plan to have some really nice fruit and serve coffee to [...]

“We live in the church!” says Janine Houston. “Because the word church means ‘God’s people’ - we are church. We do life together, rescue people in crisis & care for people.” JEM stands for Justice, Empowerment, Mission. There are 17 living in the house at the moment - in an outer Melbourne suburb. The kettle [...]

Yesterday I met Steve Bartlett - planter of Bayside Community Church in Sydney and director of a newly formed School of Church Planting at Morling College. Bayside (6 years old) is now planting another church - in a Gloria Jeans Cafe. (For those who don’t know - Gloria Jeans is a commercial coffee cafe chain.) [...]

Alfa Gospel Praises has multiplied out of the Nová Šance plant - and is at the heart of an innovative approach to church planting for postmoderns in Záb?eh, Czech Republic. “It is impacting our town,” Martin Veselý, church planting coordinator for the Adventists in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, told me by Skype. “More than [...]

Recently I heard Michael Frost say that it was time for the Baptist church in Australia to be a ‘movement’ rather than just a church. There was a time when the Adventist church saw itself as a ‘movement’! That term could not be used of the church in most areas of the western/northern world. A [...]

New generations are not connecting with church. Is this an issue for you? Most of the new generations are not connecting to church. And, fewer of my friends (older!) connect to local churches any more. They read their Bibles and perhaps spend more on Christian books than others – but they are not in churches [...]

The Kingsway @ the Queensway is the name of a new plant (in the Queensway pub in Scunthorpe, England), that has multipled out of the newly planted Cottage Beck Café Church. It has been running every Saturday at 3 pm, since mid-January. “We have 7 regulars besides the Café Church team,” say planters Isobel and [...]