Floyd McClung shares one of his happiest moments so far in Africa. . . Anyway, my D-Group on Wednesday evenings is with 4 Malawian men who are new believers and future church planters. They live in shacks, are dirt poor, but most important, they have a vibrant, growing love for Jesus and a willingness to [...]
Tag Archives: Case studies
Rapidly multiplying faith communities
5 March, 2011 – 2:05 AM
Drop what you’re doing and download the latest edition of Mission Frontiers magazine. More than a dozen articles on church planting movements written by some of the best practitioner-trainers there are. David Garrison, Bill Smith, Steve Smith, Neil Cole, Kevin Greeson and some folk I haven’t met yet but sound good. They write about CPMs [...]
When ministry as usual is not enough
31 December, 2010 – 4:15 PM
I’ve just read an advance copy of an outstanding book on church planting movements (CPMs). The book hasn’t bee released yet, but one of the authors has written an article that tells the story of one of the world’s most prolific disciple-making movements. Ying Kai, a Chinese-American church planter and pastor, served with his wife [...]
Duane’s report
21 December, 2010 – 1:52 AM
A photo of Tim Scheuer (centre) and some of his team from Airds in SW Sydney. Duane at The Aristophrenium has just posted two articles on Tim Scheuer’s attempts at sparking church planting movements in a Western setting: Making Disciples in Airds Evangelism—Just do it! Here’s Tim’s last address as national leader of Church Army. [...]
Jeff Sundell reports in (2)
6 December, 2010 – 11:26 PM
Jeff continues to unpack his journey of applying CPM principles among broken and needy people in North Carolina. It may be the South, but it’s not the bible-belt. Workers from the toughest suburbs of western Sydney felt right at home as Jeff shared. You can subscribe to the movements podcast or download the audio file [...]
Jeff Sundell reports in (1)
1 December, 2010 – 10:20 AM
We’ve just hosted a three day Community of Practice for leaders that are applying church planting movement (CPM) principles around Australia. We brought Jeff and Angie Sundell (above) out to facilitate the peer learning. Here Jeff Sundell talks about his efforts to apply what he learned about CPMs in India and Nepal, back home in [...]
Catholic orders disappearing
21 November, 2010 – 10:35 AM
The monastic and religious orders are the foot soldiers of the Catholic faith. They are one of the most enduring and influential movements in human history. In Australia, and the western world generally, they are in serious decline. Numbers have halved in the last 25 years. The median age is 73. The death rate vastly [...]
Anyone for a walk?
9 September, 2010 – 11:22 PM
Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness. When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is [...]
Mongolian invasion
22 July, 2010 – 3:08 AM
The book of Acts teaches us that despite the obstacles, the spread of the word is unstoppable. Dave Lawton has just returned from a visit to Mongolia. Since the fall of communism Mongolia has seen the emergence of church planting movements. Thousands have come to know Christ. Unfortunately, foreign interference and funding has caused the [...]
How the word conquers the world
28 June, 2010 – 11:03 PM
I read a denominational report recently. The assumption of it’s planning into the future was that of continued decline. Such a far cry from the experience of the church Jesus founded in Acts. Too much of our missional thinking assumes God is absent from the planet and it’s all up to us. We provide the [...]
