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Kris Beckert

Two Strategies You Might Have Forgotten Kris Beckert | 4 Oct 2015 “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” He boarded the boat, not for a cruise or a fishing trip but for what he thought would be the next step in...
Five Common Church Activities that Could Be Used to Invite People into Christian Community Kris Beckert | 27 Jul 2015 I have a love-hate relationship with church league softball. Playing on a church team marked the debut of my adult softball life and I love to play softball. Yet, the...
Three Reasons Space Matters to Fresh Expressions Kris Beckert | 6 Jul 2015 Gathered in a side room of a traditional church building turned artists’ church, we waited for the rest of the Northern Virginia Fresh Expressions Hub to arrive. As ministers and...
Four Reasons Women are Ideal Leaders for Fresh Expressions of Church Kris Beckert | 1 Jun 2015 Over medium roast coffee and green tea, we talked about life. She came to my church for the first time because I just happened to know her stepmom from the...
Five Reasons Church Plants are Great at Starting Fresh Expressions Kris Beckert | 6 May 2015 A friend of mine recently published a picture book inspired by a backseat conversation with his 5-year old son. Titled When I Grow Up, the story is about how the...
Do You Think It’s Worth Knowing Your Neighbor’s Name? Kris Beckert | 23 Mar 2015 “You can tell that somebody is not from here if they talk to people in line at the grocery store.” We all laughed as we talked about the busy life...
Three Ideas that Define Worship in a Fresh Expression of Church Kris Beckert | 2 Feb 2015 wor·ship n. ˈwər-shəp : the act of showing respect and love for a god especially by praying with other people who believe in the same god : the act of...
Four Steps to Creating a Catch and Release Culture in Your Church Kris Beckert | 15 Dec 2014 Fishing. My first real job out of college was to work as the Environmental Education Specialist for the Fish and Boat Commission of Pennsylvania. It was probably one of the...
Doing Something Fresh Could be a Real Risk! Kris Beckert | 12 Nov 2014 What if “taking a risk for God” were less about jumping off cliffs and going and more about examining our motives and opening our eyes to how God might be...
How to Ensure Your Neighbors Would NEVER Put Jesus’ Campaign Sign in Their Yard Kris Beckert | 3 Nov 2014 Where I live, campaign signs have become part of the landscape since mid-April. Just about all of the primary winners have allowed their yellow, flamingo pink, and multicolored corrugated cardboard...
5 Fresh Expressions Experiments for Summer Kris Beckert | 21 May 2014 Before being called into ministry and entering seminary, I was an environmental scientist by trade. Much of my job consisted of asking questions, forming hypotheses, designing how I’d test them,...
Kris Beckert: She Moves Kris Beckert | 24 Apr 2014 We stood outside the room where dinner would be served and we heard it. Chatter. Laughter. Introductions. Conversations. The five of us leading the “She Moves” event on the Friday...

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