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Converge Great Lakes is a movement of churches working to help people meet, know and follow Jesus. We do this by starting and strengthening churches together worldwide. We’d love to collaborate with you.

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Strengthen your church so its pastors, lay leaders, and congregation remain healthy and effective—reaching the lost and raising up disciples.

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Reach communities still untouched by the gospel. We provide pathways, partnerships, and a support structure for those called to go and those called to help them.

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Stories of Impact

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Church Planting & Multiplication

God’s Not Done Here

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 […]

Evangelism & Discipleship Featured

From Dinner Table to Baptismal Waters

Bella, a Christian young adult in San Jose, California, had no idea what God was about to do when a couple sat down in her section at the Rustic House restaurant. Not that John and Tiffany Markum, who planted Life Valley Church 12 years ago, had a clue either. They were just on a date […]

Featured International Ministries

The First Word Is ‘Go’

For Bill Ankerberg, the most important word in the Great Commission is its first one: “Go.” “It does not say support. It does not say raise money for. It does not say pray for. It says, ‘Go ye into all the world.’ And it’s a command,” Ankerberg said. This conviction led him to leave a […]

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