Walking alongside people who are making a difference is one of my great joys. I have found that developing a coaching relationship at key moments in the life of a church that is becoming missional can accelerate progress and increase impact. In coaching I use a small group approach that allows learning to [...]

Join the hundreds of other church planters and leaders who are missional/ externally focused in completing a critical part of the church planning and planting process. A needs assessment is a church planting kit sent to your home that helps you understand community needs.  ‘Understanding Community Needs: Needs Assessment Kit’ helps new churches to [...]

If the statistics are to be believed then the American church is sliding ever closer to a dramatically weakened position within this pluralistic nation. With every denominational group in decline, we can only assume that there is something very wrong with what has become normative Christian life. We don’t look or act [...]

7When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?” 8(His disciples had gone into the town to buy food. ) 9The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not [...]

Understanding Community Needs, Needs Assessment Kit for New Churches
If you are in the planning, planting or ministering in the first couple of years of new church life, and you want community service and a missional/ externally focused DNA to grow in the church, then completing a needs assessment is critical part of the process. 
Using a [...]

Status Quo wouldn’t be an accurate description of American culture today. In fact, “status quo” is short for “status quo ante bellum,” or “the state before the war.”  Status quo is not just how things are today, but a return to things as they once were– whether that is something we want for our culture [...]