A team of missionaries led by GCA President Steve Childers are making their way to West Africa for the 2010 GCA West Africa Church Planting Inistitute. We’ve already shared details about GCA’s goals and aspirations in holding this summit. Now we want to give you specific details (i.e[...]
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May 23rd, 2010 - 2:18 pm § in Africa, Church Planting
2010 GCA West Africa Church Planting Institute
You’ll be hearing a lot from us over the next week about the West Africa Church Planting Institute. In particular, Steve will be sharing his prayer requests with us. We will also be sure to pass along any updates we get from the field from day to day. So, since we’ll be talking about[...]
April 25th, 2010 - 12:04 pm § in Uncategorized
Great “Keeping the Heart” Quotes from John Flavel (17th century)
“There are some men and women who have lived forty or fifty years in the world and have scarcely had one hour’s discourse with their own hearts all the while.” “He who will keep his heart must take heed of plunging himself into such a multiplicity of earthly business that he cannot manage it[...]
Steve Childers At Exponential Conference This Week
Steve will be speaking this week at the national Exponential Conference (“Largest gathering of Church Planters on the Planet”) in Orlando, FL. On Monday, April 18 (TODAY!) he will be speaking at the afternoon Pre-Conference Workshop called “Best Practices in Church Planting Forum” hosted by [...]
April 13th, 2010 - 5:46 am § in On the Web
Steve Childers Preaches at Bethlehem Baptist Church
This past Sunday, Steve Childers preached at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, MN – the home of John Piper. You can download the sermon by clicking the link below. Please pray for Steve this week as he works with Bethlehem to train their church planters. What In The World Is God Doing[...]
February 5th, 2010 - 6:48 pm § in On the Web
A Gospel-Planted Life Blog Reviews GCA Conference
The folks over at A Gospel-Planted Life were kind enough to share their experience at last week’s North American Church Planting Conference. You should check it out! [A Gospel-Planted Life][...]
January 30th, 2010 - 12:29 am § in Church Planting
GCA 2010 Conference Attendee Tweets
Culture + Gospel + Church = Transformational ministry. #gca10 “Beneath the demographics of your community are the lifestyles that are an expression of beliefs.” -Bob Orner #gca10 Allender: If you don’t need the Gospel more than the people you are sharing it with, you ought not to b[...]
January 27th, 2010 - 10:40 am § in Church Planting
Essentials: Worship
Note: Casey Johnson is an M.Div. student at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando. He is at the GCA Conference this week and is going through the “Essentials” course. He shared his thoughts with us on the Worship module, which was taught by Jason Sears. In very brief, bullet-poi[...]
September 13th, 2009 - 8:39 pm § in Church Planter Spouse, Church Planting
Research Findings on Church Planting Wives: 6 Primary Sources, 8 Secondary Sources
The following factors provided the greatest sources of satisfaction or stress for church planting wives. These findings are taken from a research study conducted in North American among PCA church planting spouses of various ethnicities in both urban and suburban settings. This research was conduct[...]
September 5th, 2009 - 10:00 pm § in Uncategorized
Multi-Generational Church Planting: An Observation, Concern & Suggestion by Martin Ban
Great trends are developing in church plants. New plants are emphasizing all means of grace (word, sacrament, prayer) in balanced proportions in liturgies. Right on! Also, new plants are sprouting in non- traditional domains– right on with that as well. Here’s my observation and my[...]
September 5th, 2009 - 9:01 pm § in Uncategorized
“Sincerity is Gospel Perfection” Godly Characteristic #13 of 24 by Thomas Watson
Thomas Watson offers twenty four characteristics of a godly person drawn from the Scriptures. This is the thirteenth characteristic he lists. Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen. Ephesians 6:24 (KJV) #13 A godly person is a sincere person. . . [...]
August 22nd, 2009 - 10:00 pm § in Church Planter Spouse, Greatest Mistakes
Planter Spouse Looks Back: What I Wish I’d Known About Church Planting! by Shari Thomas*
Given at the Global Church Advancement North America Conference I wish someone would have told us (Shari and her husband, John), that we both would need a support system greater than just each other… …that we would need coaches and mentors, and we should plan at more than one stage in the jo[...]
August 21st, 2009 - 8:50 pm § in Uncategorized
Living in the Power of the Gospel by Piper, Bridges, Childers and Keller available in Spanish
Living in the Power of the Gospel by John Piper, Jerry Bridges, Steve Childers and Tim Keller (edited by Jerry Cross) was recently published in Spanish (as Vivir en el poder del Evangelio) by Lighthouse Publications’ Harmony Books division in Mexico City. The publisher notes, “Learn how God&[...]
July 31st, 2009 - 12:55 pm § in Uncategorized
Help GCA Cause Over the 600 Barrier: Meet Member 599!
Cindy Sawyer This is a great organization–really God centered and down to earth! God’s doing some very cool things through GCA… Cindy joined the cause: Global Church Advancement 599 members – $535 raised Susan Reel likes this![...]