Everyone with experience (who also feels the need to give free advice) has told me how much hard work church planting is. It’s true: long hours, late nights, big meetings, laboring in prayer, making connections, planning, designing, preparing, negotiating… it really is tons of work (and our senior pastor at (more…)
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… If you’re looking for proof, just look at the post Sarah penned here. We continue to see God do amazing things like connecting us with community members through a recent volleyball clinic, allowing significant relationships to be built, hosting our first service in the Penn Hills library, and incredible (more…)
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<image courtesy of carbonNYC @ Flickr> I have never met a ‘typical’ church planter. Sure, assessment helps determine whether someone has a demonstrable history of the kind of gifting and passion needed to help find success in a planting endeavor, but beyond certain gifts, history, and focus, it seems there’s (more…)
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You did it today. So did I. At least once. Probably without realizing it, we made an assumption about someone’s job–how easy or hard or menial or vital that job was; how untrained or overworked or under-appreciated or uncaring the person at the tollbooth, behind the counter, at the other (more…)
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As we have announced the name for the Pittsburgh Church Plant, The Bridge, reactions have been interesting to gauge. Most people a generation before mine are thrilled with the name. Most people in my own generation seem to like it, but don’t have a particularly deep affinity for it. People (more…)
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…I’ll be spending the day with a great group of people who are dedicated to creating a movement of church multiplication in what many would say is an unlikely place. I’ll be meeting with the Church Multiplication Task Force for the Western Pennsylvania District of The Wesleyan Church or (more…)
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