Global Travel with Peace of Mind
Making plans to travel abroad with friends, family or a group from your church? Surprisingly, one thing that may not be coming along with you: your domestic health insurance plan. Landing overseas is not the ideal time to find out you are not covered for a medical...
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It’s Amazing What God Does through Church Planting Movements
The Los Angeles Church Planting Movement has been pioneering in many ways. In addition to the ten and counting churches the Movement has helped to launch, the story of innovative leaders including Kevin Haah, Albert Tate, and Tom Hughes partnering together across...
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Churches Looking for Church Planting Residents …
A simple Google search for “church planting residency” will bring up a ton of great links with information on residencies and a slew of churches, networks, and denominations that have them to offer (including our page that is usually first or second depending on which...
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Church Planting Leadership: Use IMPROV to Draw Upon Your Raw Talent
Church planters don’t just lead people to do a job, accomplish a task, and check a box. They are calling people to a movement; the most vital, most life-giving movement on the planet. I recently had the chance to talk with David Miller of Slingshot Group. Friends and...
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How The Gathering is Bringing Hope to New Orleans’ Ninth Ward
Just across the street from The Gathering church is the New Orleans' Ninth Ward. In this video, Lead Pastor Matt Woodward tells us about a high school student who had been imprisoned three times and was now hiding in his house because people were after him. Matt says,...
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Rustin Found Hope Because a Local Church Started in New Orleans
Meet Rustin. He came to Matt Woodward at The Gathering to seek counseling in the midst of marital infidelity. Now he and his family are part of The Gathering “Because people didn’t judge us. They just loved us.” They are growing in God’s Word, thanks to a local church...
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Years after the Hell of Katrina, The Gathering Continues to Bring Heaven on Earth
Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans 12 years ago. Matt Woodward and his family headed there to provide disaster relief. When they realized the need for restoration went beyond brick and mortar, they stuck around. As they served, they saw torn families, loss, PTSD, and...
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Church Planting in Phoenix: Interview with Tom Cooper
The people of Broadway Christian Church (Mesa, AZ) are ready to plant churches for people they’ll most likely never meet. According to Tom Cooper, the church has seen how new churches are reaching more unchurched people than existing churches. “So we believe God wants...
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Arizona Church Planting: Meet Brian and Barb Snyder
Meet Brian and Barb Snyder. They're great leaders who are answering God's call to start a new church in Winslow, AZ. Brian is originally from the middle of Pennsylvania and met his wife Barb in her home city of Cincinnati. They both went to Cincinnati Bible College...
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Now It’s Your Turn: Plant an Under-Resourced Neighborhood Church
In 2017, Stadia formalized a partnership with World Impact to begin planting churches in urban, under-resourced areas across the United States. Why? Because we won’t stop planting churches until every child has a church. If this vision is to be realized we must plant...
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Church Planting in Phoenix, AZ: Interview with Broadway Christian Church
Broadway Christian Church is located in a retiree area of Mesa, AZ. But Associate Pastor John Klundt says their leadership is passionate starting new churches for the next generation. And not just one church but multiple churches. John says that’s why they’re...
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Church Planting Leadership: Are You Making Yourself or Others the Hero?
It’s not about me. It’s not about you. It’s about how WE do this together. --Sue Miller and Adam Duckworth, Orange I repeat this phrase to my kid’s ministry team all the time. So much so, they are probably pretty tired of it. My goal is to create a team atmosphere. We...
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Church Planting Questions from a Science Nerd
Wow – it is hard to believe, but a few months ago we planted our 500th church! For an organization that is celebrating our 15th anniversary this year, this was a HUGE milestone. As you can imagine, after planting 500 churches in 15 years we’ve learned a few things...
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Church Planting Assessment Brings Out Your Very Best
Are you giving God your very best? Your Kingdom Impact is at its greatest when you are doing exactly what God has uniquely created you to do. Stadia’s Church Planting Assessment Center walks future church planters and campus pastors through a process that will help...
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Hear from Donnie Williams about Why Raleigh/ Durham/ Chapel Hill Needs More Churches
“The Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill area is growing by 80 new people per day. A lot of unchurched people are moving here and we need a lot more churches to accommodate the growth in this area.” Hear more from Donnie Williams (Lifepointe Church, Raleigh, NC) about why...
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