In visiting all these communities, we did repeatedly see some patterns. Since the communities are all growing like gangbusters, we have definitely seen the truth of how new city planning leaves little room for churches. When people say that the church is being marginalized, it truly is. This was especially striking in Lethbridge but was [...]
I am starting to notice that there is a weight the deeper you get into pastoral ministry. As we proceed with team building and training with Awana, and getting our Community Group together this fall, we are having a lot of hard conversations with people about where they are at. Work challenges, relationship challenges, sin [...]
We’re back in Vancouver, and strangely enough the hot humid weather of central Florida seems to have followed us home. It wouldn’t let us go in fact, as our arrival in Toronto was swathed in the same kinds of massive downpours we saw several times in Florida (which caused our flight to be delayed by [...]
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I’ve been reading Ed Stetzer’s Planting New Churches in a Postmodern Age lately. It is beastly-long as compared to the quick read that Launch was. I was trying to catch some rays and darken the skin a little before we head to Florida at the end of the month for a little iGo action and [...]
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On the weekend we had a meeting to shake down the way our small groups will look this fall. As our church grows I don’t know how long this way of deciding groups will last. With regards to my group, there are several things I feel we did wrong last year. And there are several [...]
I’ll say this right up front, while I am calling this a book review, it is more of a reflection on the book in light of my church planting experience so far, and an attempt to digest what I learned to aid in looking forward to how we will do things differently. I picked this [...]
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