The church plant in rural New Hampshire didn’t launch with a glossy website, a worship band, or a six-figure budget. It started with three families, a handful of committed believers, and a pastor who spent his weekdays working at the local hardware store. Three years later, that small community has become a sending church—already dispatching […]
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We can execute a launch strategy perfectly while our souls are wither.” Church planter Luke Simmons dropped this grenade in a recent article, and it’s still ringing in my ears. After fifteen years of watching church plants launch with fireworks and fizzle within eighteen months, I’m convinced he’s identified the epidemic beneath the statistics. The
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Here’s the hard math of church multiplication: one Western missionary can plant one church every three years. One indigenous leader, properly trained, can plant ten churches in a decade—and raise up others who do the same. In Acts 29 Africa’s regional training days across Uganda, Malawi, South Africa, Burundi, Mozambique, and Zambia, we’re seeing what
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Fifty-seven people came to faith in Christ in under two years. That’s not a conference statistic. That’s New River Fellowship in Fort Lauderdale—a church plant where Chan Kilgore, a veteran of nearly 25 years in ministry, says he’s seen conversions unlike anything in his lifetime. ‘The kind of conversions we’re seeing are undeniably a work
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Forty-three percent of Gen Z identifies with no religion at all. Yet sixty percent of all Americans still call themselves Christian. Something doesn’t add up. According to Barna’s latest research, we’ve reached a startling threshold: while 60% of U.S. adults claim Christian identity, only 24% qualify as “practicing Christians”—those who attend worship monthly and say
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