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Church Planting Story
Mike Bricker

Discovering We’re Church Planters After Retirement

[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] After my wife Beth and I retired from the military, we spent a lot of time in prayer about God’s will for us.

Discernment
Vance Steinman

Preventing Your Leadership Crash

[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] Planting a new church is exciting, and for the most part spiritually and emotionally rewarding. It also comes with a massive cost and

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Discernment
Justin Juntunen

Finding My Calling As a Woman Church Planter

[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] Finding calling is difficult. For this conversation, we gathered women church planters to hear their stories of finding and living out their callings.

Coaching
Rich Andrews

3 Kinds of Coaches Every Pastor Needs

[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] One of the primary characteristics that defines pastors of healthy growing churches is that they are willing to accept help from the outside.

Bi-vocational ministry
Joel Seymour

Supporting And Encouraging Bi-Vocational Pastors

Church Planters flourish when they are mentored, challenged, and supported in the kingdom work that they’re doing. Bi-vocational planters especially want to know that someone

Diversity & Justice
Brittney Moore

Advice For Future Female Pastors

[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] I never envisioned becoming a senior pastor. I wasn’t even sure women should be pastors. In college, I was a history major. I

Evangelism
Michael Houle

Cultivating a Culture of Outreach

Sharing the Kingdom means communicating God’s love in action to our neighbors. To be a healthy church, an evangelistic church, we have to begin by