Pastors’ wives (PW) and women in ministry are incredible sources of wisdom and creativity as they use their gifts in leadership and service. We highly value their insight, faithfulness, and diligent labor. That’s why we’re hosting Wednesdays Are for Women. Each week, we’ll hear from a different PW or ministry leader and gain her perspective [...]

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Nobody (new) goes there any more . It’s too crowded. We covered that in part 1 of this post. Space affects momentum. Make no mistake about it. Your church has grown and now you are at the point that the lack of space is about to affect the momentum of your plant. It is not [...]

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Church planting is hard. If you’re a planter, I don’t need to tell you that. In terms of experience, you could tell me a lot more than I can tell you. My perspective is from someone who sees a lot of planters attempt to launch a church. There are so many important decisions along the [...]

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Announcing Pete Wilson’s Velocity 2012 Main Session: Deceptively Good Oftentimes in ministry our greatest temptation is not to chase after the obviously evil, but to chase after the deceptively good. In this session we will uncover the hidden idols in ministry that are driving us and talk about how to turn our devotion back toward [...]

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Announcing Sam Chand’s Velocity 2012 Main Session: Top 3 Issues in Church Today In each season of the church there are common emerging leadership challenges and pursuant perspectives and implementations. In this session Dr. Sam Chand will highlight the three prevailing issues of our current times. Register NOW to attend Velocity 2012 to learn more [...]

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Pastors’ wives (PW) and women in ministry are incredible sources of wisdom and creativity as they use their gifts in leadership and service. We highly value their insight, faithfulness, and diligent labor. That’s why we’re hosting Wednesdays Are for Women. Each week, we’ll hear from a different PW or ministry leader and gain her perspective [...]

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  Beginning TOMORROW!     The churchplanters.com Coaching Network allows you to meet monthly with 10 to 12 other Lead Pastors where you build relationships, learn from one another, dive deep into the best practices and develop a contextual plan for implementing these practices into the life of your church.  Join Shawn Lovejoy for six [...]

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Announcing Brian Bloye’s Velocity 2012 Main Session: Is Jesus Enough? Are you trapped in the battle of never being satisfied or content with where God has you? Do you secretly crave the idea of notoriety? Does your significance hang on last Sunday’s attendance? There are so many hooks out there to pull us away from [...]

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Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and we want to give you a Valentine’s Date!  We are giving away 7 pairs of tickets to the Velocity 2012 Conference!! Velocity is filling up fast but we want to give you a Valentine’s gift that you won’t forget!  You and your spouse will be front and [...]

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Announcing Tim Stevens’ Velocity 2012 Main Session: The Narcissistic Pastor Question: What type of person has the guts to believe they can go into a community, gather scores of people around them, and see significant, long-lasting impact? Answer: A church planter. And the best ones are often a bit narcissistic. That is, they don’t listen [...]

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