Baptist Missionary Association of America

Last week, I had the honor of speaking to those attending the annual missions symposium of the Baptist Missionary Association of America in Conway, Arkansas.  And yes, I was just down the road from Toadsuck. . . . go figure. These brothers and sisters have been at work across the globe for several decades.  If [...]

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Few churches in North America are involved in church planting.  I want to be involved in changing this unfortunate reality. Today, I am releasing my latest e-book Leading Your Church in Church Planting: Taking the First Steps.  This 62-page work is designed to encourage and provide some guidance for pastors considering such missionary work. While [...]

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I am preparing to release my next free e-book. Check out the video below for more information.  Stay tuned. Happy Thanksgiving!

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Williston, North Dakota is a town of 13,000 people, in a county of 20,000.  According to The ARDA, the county is 17% Evangelical and has 17 Evangelical churches, giving it 1 such church for every 1162 people (based on 2000 data). And a few of you pastors need to consider sending future church planting teams [...]

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In this post, I am releasing my first e-book, Discipleship in Church Planting: Some Guidelines to Move Us Forward. This brief work (55 pages) provides some guidelines for church planters to establish healthy approaches for teaching new believers to obey all that Jesus commanded.  Chapters include: Set the Example Keep It Simple Begin at the [...]

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Check out the video here regarding this week’s release of my first e-book.  Stay tuned.

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“In great areas of Asia, Africa, and Oceania, the church grows steadily and even spectacularly.  But in the areas dominated by modern Western culture (whether in its capitalist or socialist political expression) the church is shrinking and the gospel appears to fall on deaf ears.  It would seem, therefore, that there is no higher priority [...]

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This week I begin a semester-long training course for church planters.  I always look forward to it.  One of the first things that the participants experience is that I quickly tell them that our work is not about church planting. Now, I recognize this is a strange statement for a church planting professor to make, [...]

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I had the honor of spending the last two days in Hernando, Mississippi serving as one of the speakers for the first annual meeting of the One8 Network.  Since several of the participants requested copies of my Power Point presentations, I told them that I would post them here on the blog (linked below). While [...]

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The Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College has just published a new book on church planting.  Extending God’s Kingdom: Church Planting Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow is a compilation of chapters written by church planters and missiologists.  Over the years, these chapters appeared as articles in various volumes of the Evangelical Missions Quarterly. Laurie Fortunak Nichols, [...]

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