Global Church Advancement (GCA)

TOP SIX STRESS AGENTS FOR CHURCH PLANTERS’ WIVES (INVERSE ORDER): 6. The average wife oversees ~2.5 ministries, raises children, and many have part-time jobs. About 80% experience depression. 5. Boundary ambiguity — Emotional, physical, and role ambiguity. For example, the house is often use[...]

INTRODUCTION This is an Essentials Track workshop. Tilley spoke yesterday about leadership, describing that leadership had four roles: Coach/Motivator, Change Agent, Spokesperson and Direction-Setter. Leadership comes with four responsibilities: Vision-Casting, Strategy Formulation, Aligning and Mot[...]

Pastor Pope suggests contacting Bill Wood. Wood, a former GE executive, is on their staff and his entire job is to help pastors who ask for help. Pope, Wood and others are now trying to make this material available to others. LIFE LEARNING REGARDING DISCIPLESHIP 1. The importance of investing in fai[...]

Al Guerra was born in Cuba in 1955 and came to the United States in 1968. He grew up in New York City and attended Southern Connecticut State University. He attended the Emmaus Bible School, and after marrying Mónica, a native of Argentina, began studying at Talbot Theological Seminary in southern [...]

      The Reason for God      Timothy Keller   Best Price $16.47   or Buy New $16.47  Privacy Information I’m about half way through the uncopyedited manuscript of Tim Keller’s forthcoming The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism. I am finding it to be an excellent re[...]

Steve Ogne is a nationally known church planter trainer, coach and consultant for Church Resource Ministries & coauthor (with Bob Logan) of several church planter training manuals, including the best selling Church Planter’s Toolkit. He is also the co-author of the popular study kit Empowering[...]

Nebel began with the term “evangelism entropy.” Entropy increases. Church planters might start out with an organized approach to outreach/evangelism. But then entropy takes over. A church planter is a joiner. He is a missionary to his community. He should be joining things: school board,[...]

Steve Childers began by describing that he was able to visit a dungeon recently where African slaves were once kept. He reminded us that William Wilberforce struggled deeply with whether he should serve God or parliament. In the movie Amazing Grace, there is a powerful scene where a woman tells Wilb[...]