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Rural Stories: Books to Challenge, Inspire, and Encourage the Small Town Pastor
Donnie Griggs, J.D. Vance, and Winn Collier | CHARLIE COTHERMAN If church history has shown us anything,...
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In the Game: Reflections on Sports, Momentum, and the First Rural Matters Conference
Jesus, Rural Ministry, and Football | CHARLIE COTHERMAN This past September, I had the chance to attend...
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2015 Study: New churches draw those who previously didn’t attend
By Lisa Cannon Green originally posted at LifeWay Research. NASHVILLE, Tenn. – America is launching new...
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Best Practice Research to be Released at Exponential 2018
The Send Institute is currently conducting an extensive survey of North American church planting networks...
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Urban Church Planting, Diversity, and the Future (Part 3)
The following is a transcript from a talk Daniel Yang gave at the Church Planting Leadership Fellowship (CPLF)...
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Urban Church Planting, Diversity, and the Future (Part 2)
The following is a transcript from a talk Daniel Yang gave at the Church Planting Leadership Fellowship...
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Urban Church Planting, Diversity, and the Future (Part 1)
The following is a transcript from a talk Daniel Yang gave at the Church Planting Leadership Fellowship...
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A Child’s View of Church Planting
We, all of us, have been called to go. Image: First Baptist Church, Sutherland Springs, Texas / Facebook...
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Will We See a Church Planting Movement in North America?
The rise of church planting fervor within many streams of evangelicalism leads us to a question: Is it...
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The Need for Culturally Agile Leaders in Church Planting
We’re in one of the best times in history to start globally-minded churches in North America—churches...
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Imaginative Risk Taking In Canadian Congregations
Our Flourishing Congregations Institute research team—based at Ambrose University in Calgary, Alberta—spent...
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2017 The State of Church Planting in Baltimore & DC
Over the last 10-years, there has been a growing commitment of churches, networks and denominations to...