03-Developing a Vision

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THE FOLLOWING IS A GUEST POST FROM JOSH BAYLOR (@JOSHBAYLOR). JOSH SERVES AS A CHURCH PLANTER IN DÜSSELDORF, GERMANY. (Continued from...

THE FOLLOWING IS A GUEST POST FROM JOSH BAYLOR (@JOSHBAYLOR). JOSH SERVES AS A CHURCH PLANTER IN DÜSSELDORF, GERMANY. (Continued from...

No one has the right to hear the gospel twice, while there is someone who hasn’t heard it once. –Oswald J. Smith Occasionally it hits me...

The discussion of the sending church may cause some leaders and churches to feel left out. Many of the churches touted as sending...

September's sending church online training will focus on Creating a Sending Pipeline for your church.

While it can be said there are no perfect Sending Churches, we do see some common practices of healthy Sending Churches.

Our desire is to see your church move to the next level of being a Sending Church. We can help you do that through our cohorts.

Developing a vision gives importance to defining a clear, simple and compelling statement that draws your church members into God’s mission.

There is a lot involved with becoming a sending church. Here are some resources to help you.

To put it simply, the reason missionaries identify as sent from their local church is because it is the local church that sends.

Here are a few questions to consider that might help us navigate, process, and prepare in crises.

Isaiah 6:8 has been formative in our call to missions. But in Acts 13 we see a description of a church’s important involvement in sending.

By Derick Sherfey “Oh, so you’re the missions guy.” If I had a buck for every time I’ve heard this the past few years in the church...

By Derick Sherfey, Director of Content Strategy 2018 is a year I believe God is inviting me into deeper dependence. My family- alongside...

This is a guest article by Greg Kinnard. Over the last several years the “gospel-centered” movement has taken the church by storm. Dozens...

Ask-a-Missiologist is a series in which we do just that ask a missiologist a current pressing missiological question. This week’s...

As we’ve said before, the discussion of being a sending church may cause some leaders and churches to feel left out. Many sending...

THE FOLLOWING IS A GUEST POST FROM NATHAN GARTH. NATHAN SERVES AS THE PASTOR OF INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS AT SOJOURN COMMUNITY CHURCH. I...