NewChurchLife

Last week I was asked about discipling resources for new believers, following their baptisms. For some time now I have been suggesting a very specific schedule of Bible reading – using the five small group questions (anything new? anything I don’t like? etc). I find this works better than suggesting ‘discipleship courses.’ Encourage each person [...]

Each Monday The XChange planting team in Kariong (NSW) provides morning tea for teachers and staff of the Kariong Public School. ‘They love the goodies we provide,’ says planter Laurel Ansell – and have labeled it ‘munchy morish Mondays’.

When Phil Brown (church planting coordinator in Western Australia) and I visited the ACTS Club at Curtin University yesterday, one student told us how she has become a member of a ‘reading club’ on campus and this has opened the opportunity for her to suggest a book on spirituality that the group has decided to [...]

With the Jewish Passover day last week – and the feast of unleaven bread spanning the traditional Easter weekend this year – Living Waters Community Church hosted a Passover Brunch on Shabbat (April 11) for almost 100 people. Barry Buirski, from Celebrate Messiah, was the featured speaker – graphically illustrating the salvation provided by Jesus [...]

‘MORE than four in 10 Australians who don’t consider themselves “born again” nevertheless believe Jesus rose from the dead, while one in 10 doesn’t believe he even existed.’ Check out this survey report in The Age (Apr 7, 09).

‘We are doing fine,’ a friend writes. ‘We are getting on with the church plant. We try to hide from other Christians so we can focus our energy on reaching the lost and that is wonderful!’ To cultivate fresh expressions that foster kingdom living & values – are you finding you need to ‘hide from [...]

Monte Sahlin writes: ‘Michael Temple is a pastor in South Dakota. He recently obtained the use of a 3,400-square-foot commercial space in the shopping mall in town and is experimenting with various kinds of outreach. He started a blog where he tells you precisely what he is experimenting with and then gives you the raw [...]

Street Pastors has united denominations in service in cities all across Britain and is doing the same in Scunthorpe (Lincolnshire). Many vicars, pastors, and ministers have shown interest in being involved. This Thursday evening (Jan 22) local Council officers, police representatives, magistrates, media, church leaders and members, local licensees and nightclub representatives, etc, will meet [...]

The 'prayer station' has been set up only three times so far – with over 100 responses. Read more.

“Skyrocketing rental prices and the cost of living are ‘trapping more Maroondah families in poverty,’” reports social worker David Knoop in the Maroondah Leader (the area newspaper in eastern Melbourne). David Knoop, with Connections, runs The Dining Room  - a soup kitchen – where the number coming for food has almost doubled since December 2007 to 90 [...]