Tag Archives: Church planting

News from the Front (door)

This just came in from the frontline. I’ve changed some names . . .

Friends
Over the past week I have been building relationship with a new single parent family met while door knocking.
I have just finished praying for mum – Julie – who has nasty ulcers on her arm that have been very slow healing. The [...]

These people are crazy

Dave Lawton reports in on what’s been happening at Alabaster House:

Starting with five young radicals I remember going to pray in parks at night with them as they started to dream of reaching broken kids with the gospel. Passion was high. So was their faith. There was no resource, no big budget, just big hearts.
A [...]

The wisdom of experience

Peter Roennfeldt has been planting churches for longer than I can remember. He has children, grand children and great grand children all over the globe.
Recently he and his wife Judy returned to Papua New Guinea where it all began. They visited the fourteen churches they planted in the capital Port Moresby before leaving in 1979. [...]

Airds update

Tim Scheuer has been baptizing new believers down at the Airds swimming pool in Sydney.
Looks like he’d better buy a season’s ticket. Ten more people have come to faith in Christ in the last week.
I’ve just interviewed Tim for a church planting conference in Brisbane.
Listen in to find out what he’s learning.

Dave Lawton: Church planting movements

Dave Lawton (right) has been on a journey in three stages.
He has seen a church planting movement in India and Nepal. He has helped spark a church planting movement out of Crossway, one of Australia’s largest suburban churches. Now he is making disciples and multiplying “simple churches” in some of the most needy regions of [...]

Good news in Airds

This prayer update just came in from Tim Scheuer. That’s Tim on the right with Nicci and Phil, one of the indigenous team members.
In just a few lines it tells the story of people coming to faith out of hard environments. We hear of a mission team that is out connecting with people in their [...]

Ralph Moore coming to Sydney

If you’ve never heard of Ralph Moore that’s because he doesn’t pastor a church of 10,000. All he has done is plant churches that have planted churches of all shapes and sizes around the world.
700 churches and 70,000 people in a growing network.
Here are the details of his visit to Sydney, September 17-19, 2009.
And here’s [...]

Forum for church planters

Here’s a website designed just for church planters who want to connect. Check it out.

The kingdom comes

About thirty of us braved the Melbourne winter and gathered early this morning to listen in on a conference call with Tim Scheuer in Sydney about his recent exploits in making disciples and planting churches.
Follow this link for the mp3 download.
Here again are some of the resources Tim has found helpful in doing evangelism and [...]

Tim and t4t

For those who have been following Tim Scheuer’s story, here are some of the materials that have influenced his church planting strategy.
They come from our good friends at the IMB via Barney.
t4t docs