Most denominational systems have a Glenn Townend. Someone who breaks the mould and sees the gospel spread, disciples made, and churches planted. Normally they are regarded as an exception. Most denominational systems don’t know what to do with someone like Glenn. This is what I’d do with him. . . First, I would leave him [...]
Tag Archives: Church planting
Why the exception?
29 March, 2010 – 8:47 PM
One hundred and ten people turned up for an Adventist church planting summit in Western Australia recently. Up from forty-five the year before. Two new churches have already been started since the summit. They’re not just starting individual churches, whole networks of new churches are popping up. Among indigenous people, immigrants and Aussie battlers. Another [...]
Australian population growing at double the world average
27 March, 2010 – 8:49 PM
Australia’s population is growing at double the world average. Underpinned by an economy that weathered the global financial crisis, Australia grew by 451,900 people in the year to last September, taking it beyond the 22 million mark, Australian Bureau of Statistics figures reveal. That is an increase of 451,900 people during the year, keeping the [...]
News from the Front (door)
15 March, 2010 – 7:38 AM
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 [...]
These people are crazy
17 February, 2010 – 8:55 AM
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 [...]
The wisdom of experience
26 November, 2009 – 2:41 AM
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 [...]
Airds update
16 November, 2009 – 10:01 AM
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
17 September, 2009 – 7:28 AM
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 [...]
Good news in Airds
14 August, 2009 – 10:52 AM
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 [...]
Ralph Moore coming to Sydney
22 July, 2009 – 8:31 AM
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, [...]
