Church planting 101

Dan Nichols, his sister, Cynthia, and friends Seth Maine and Tim Walker — all single, all in their 20s — had signed the lease. Together, the church planters schlepped their cardboard moving boxes and cheap furniture into a row house in inner-city Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. It was a situation calling to mind the quote from evangelist […]

If you were a former atheist whose life was changed by knowing Jesus, how powerful would hospitality toward people who don’t know God be?  A former atheist told Converge church planter Cory Peters he wanted to help those who were in his shoes. The disciple now had Jesus in his heart after a Spirit-led experience […]

Have you ever stopped to consider first responders in your community as a discarded and neglected people group?  Three-and-a-half years ago, my wife, Susan, and I set out to change that by launching Cities Cop Church. Our Converge North Central church plant began meeting at Bethel University’s Anderson Center in Arden Hills, Minnesota, on the […]

Faith comes by hearing, just like Romans 10:17 says. But hearing God is nearly impossible in one Arizona community because people with the same address often speak different languages.   Buckeye, Arizona, has churches for English and Spanish speakers. But what’s a dual-language family to do? And how can one church engage two groups of people?  […]

Diego and Bruna were sent out from Aviva Igreja Crista to plant a new congregation in the nearby community of Içara. Remarkably, their sending church was only four years old. From its foundation, leadership development and a vision for church planting were part of the church’s DNA. Within two years of launching the new church […]