Strategy

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One of the recent endeavors we have undertaken is a video resource for our members of The Church at Brook Hills.  Multiplication Matters is a brief, weekly, equipping tool to assist our people in matters related to the multiplication of disciples, leaders, and churches.  Here is the introduction to the […]

Multiplication Matters

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One of the convictions we share as a pastoral staff team serving The Church at Brook Hills is the need to integrate the worlds of domestic and international.  Believing it to be biblical, we try to operate from a missiology that blurs the lines between home and abroad, domestic and […]

106 Representatives of Unengaged-Unreached Peoples in the United States

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Imagine the possibility of future short term teams where the destination and unreached people group served over there is determined by the unreached people group your church serves over here. “Pastor, where in the world do you think the Lord is leading our church to go this year?” “Possibly Morocco. […]

Over Here, for Over There: A Future for Short Term ...

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The term “unengaged” is a recent label developed to assist with our Great Commission task.  According to Global Research, a people group is described as unengaged “when there is no church planting methodology consistent with Evangelical faith and practice under way. A people group is not engaged when it has […]

Unengaged Peoples in the United States

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Lord willing–this September–Baker will release the book Developing a Strategy for Missions: A Biblical, Historical, and Cultural Introduction.  I am delighted to share this news with you.  John Mark Terry and I co-authored this book as a part of the Encountering Mission series.  In this post, I want to give […]

Strategy Development for a New Generation of Disciple Makers

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One of the reasons why most churches do not participate in church planting is that they believe it to be something grandiose and outside of their reach.  Pastors often listen to the exceptional, ten-talented, high capacity church planter and assume that one must be like him to do church planting […]

Your Church is Closer to Planting than You Probably Think

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