NewChurchLife

1. Passionate prayer – because we love listening to & talking with God 2. Miracles – the evidence of the activity & presence of the Spirit of God 3. Telling the story of Jesus – frequently, in language people understand

Training for Trainers (T4T) now has a website. T4T is a training model for multiplying disciples and churches. It was first pioneered in China where they’ve seen 80,000 churches started and 2 million baptized. From the website you can also order T4T: A Discipleship Re-Revolution by Steve Smith with Ying Kai.

During the last 4 weeks Judy and I were in Greece. We have visited the places where Paul first planted churches in Europe – Philippi, Thessaloniki and Corinth. (Acts 16:6-18:18) When in Athens I took my early morning walks around the Acropolis, most mornings pausing to reflect and pray on Mars Hill – where the [...]

The conversation guide for Planting Churches that Multiply has been extensively updated and revised. You can download it here Planting Churches that Multiply 2011. Or for this and other resources in the field of church planting movements you could visit the Newbold College library. Click LIBRARY, go to the Roy Graham Library Catalogue and search [...]

Jesus said to connect to the ‘person of peace’. Church planters look for this person – one who is hospitable, with whom the Holy Spirit is working, who has influence within his or her relational stream in society, and has a reputation (good or bad) within the community. These people can open their relational network [...]

This is a peer learning experience – the opportunity to share a journey with others committed to learning about movement building through the life of Jesus. Walk through the Gospels chronologically and experience how Jesus cultivated a movement! Check out the Sampler – Feb 10 in Sydney & Feb 16 in Melbourne.

The papers shared at the ‘Church and Adventist Identity in the 21st Century’ Conference are now available at the Avondale website. Check them out …

Each year the Adventists in Western Australia organize a Church Planting Summit. This is a great opportunity to be equipped, inspired and get resources. This year – March 4-7. Check it out.

Avondale College invites you to attend this international conference – 16-19 January 2011. Speakers include: Dr Richard Rice – contemporary theological issues; Dr Reinder Bruinsma – missiologist, church leader & prolific author; Rudy Dingjan – coordinator Netherlands church planting; and church planter, Peter Roennfeldt. # Themes include: identity in the 21st century / fresh expressions [...]

Dave Lawton has just returned from Mongolia and reports: ‘… the fire is gone. Western models of Church have been imported. These ‘traditional style’ churches have locked Christians up and created a passive Christianity. The Gospel has stopped spreading. Initially I was discouraged when I observed what was going on… But then I met Augie.’ [...]