Partnering with Local Churches to Train and Send Missionaries Worldwide
Moving to a new area to plant a church can be a daunting experience. Where do you begin? Where do you meet? How do you get started? Those are all questions that we asked when we moved to London to plant
Factor #4: Plant a church only after getting wise counsel. All of us have our blind spots, and none of us see with perfectly clear vision. That is why we need to continually be in the Word, so that God
We are almost done with our initial surveys of London. With these surveys, we are trying to accomplish several things: Get an overview of the need in the entire city Identify where there are gospel-preaching churches and areas where there
Factor #3: Plant a church in a needy place. When trying to assess the need of an area, we may find the following two things to be true: Everywhere is needier than we think. Nowhere is as needy as we
Dear Pastors & Praying Friends, The first week of November, Pastor James Wilson and I attended a conference for church leaders here in England. We had a good time learning and hearing what God is doing in many places across
For the follower of Christ, there is constant pressure to lay down our cross and to take the path of least resistance. The church at Corinth was dealing with this dilemma. Read 1 Corinthians 4:9-13 below: 9 For I think
Factor #2: Plant a church in a strategic place. Most church-planters put on their prayer card: “Churches Planters to Brazil” or some other country to which God has led them. The sad reality is that most of us never come
I surveyed and researched the following five boroughs last week. (Click the name of each to download a more comprehensive report.) Havering is a borough of 237,000 people with no gospel-preaching church of which we are aware. We have identified four
Happy Thanksgiving to you from our family! We never cease to be amazed at all the loyal friends that God has given us around the world. The incredible support and generosity of so many people to us and the ministry
When I am asked to preach for someone, I often find myself spending as much time trying to figure out what to preach as I do in preparing the message to preach. Similarly, determining where to plant a church can
