by Jeff Hoglen | Feb 18, 2019 | Church Planting, Church Revitalization
My wife and I had an opportunity to visit California this month. We spent a few days with friends, making ministry plans and building relationship within the team. Good times!! Afterward, we decided to travel up the coast on the famous Highway 1 with no agenda and no...
by Steve Sjogren | Sep 5, 2018 | Church Planting, Communication / Preaching
Those are the words of a newcomer family who had been anticipating a negative experience upon their first time at a church I was coaching in the southeastern U.S. But thanks to, among other things, the simple presence of many signs showing first-time newcomers how to...
by Jim Sheppard | Mar 16, 2012 | Church Planting
Recently, I had a conversation with a church planter that reminded me of the most critical decision most church plants will ever make. You’ve raised initial support and launched successfully. You’ve been in your initial location doing the portable church thing for a...
by Geoff Surratt | Mar 13, 2012 | Church Leadership, Church Planting
One of the first questions every church planter (after, “Why won’t you turn the music down?”) will face is “When will we move into our own building?” The school, theater, cardboard box is fine for today, but what they really want to know is when...
by Geoff Surratt | Feb 13, 2012 | Church Leadership, Church Planting, Worship
Let’s be honest, doing church in a portable environment is a pain. Whether you have three volunteers and one trailer or several 18-wheelers and a cast of hundreds it is hard to face setting up and tearing down, setting up and tearing down, setting up and tearing down...
