Church planting

Article Trading Spaces: Elderly Church Makes Way for Growth
- By Rachel L. Toalson
- Posted on October 29th, 2012
During a service last winter that’s been called “moving” and “emotional,” the small, elderly congregation of Asbury United Methodist Church in…
Article Spring Breakers, Snowbirds, and Barflies All Worship at the Water
- By Jeremy Mount
- Posted on October 8th, 2012
When speaking to locals about the outreach worship service meeting in our Gulf Coast community’s world-renowned bar, the Flora-Bama, it becomes evident that things are not…
Article Worship in a Tote
- By Betsy Hall
- Posted on September 12th, 2012
On Easter Sunday 2008 a group of one hundred forty-four people huddled in a park pavilion for the first worship service of a new church that was yet to be named, led by Pastor…
Article Transporting Worship
- By Jacob Armstrong
- Posted on September 11th, 2012
I'm sure that in seminary I studied the last dozen or so chapters of Exodus, but I don’t remember much about it. All the talk of making worship happen while wandering the…
Article Partnerships Turn Churches Around
- By Jessica Miller Kelley
- Posted on March 20th, 2012
There are a lot of ways to plant and grow new churches. Some say the multi-site model will become the standard for church growth, with numerous congregations sharing the vision…
Article Planting a Church with Two Different Worship Styles
- By Nancy Woods
- Posted on January 5th, 2011
It was little more than a postscript to a lecture, but it struck a chord. “Somebody,” he said, “ought to launch a church with two different services from the…