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Travis Collins

29 Baptisms When This Sunday School Class Moved to the River Travis Collins | 29 Mar 2023 At each end of Muddy Gut Road sits a church. At one end of Muddy Gut Road, near Tappahannock, VA, sits a brick church building the likes of which are...
Discipleship and the Spiritual Spectrum Travis Collins | 4 Jan 2017 One of the most common questions I get when talking to groups about Fresh Expressions is, “What about discipleship?” The implied (and sometimes explicit) assumption is that these new forms (fresh...
Who Said Youth Are Over Church? Travis Collins | 28 Sep 2016 She, along with a handful of members of her new congregations, prayer walked for more than a year. She believed God had shown her a picture of Joshua walking around the walls...
Watch: What Does the Church Do About the “Unreachable”? Travis Collins | 23 Sep 2016 Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Email Missional Entrepreneurship Training for Pioneers at the Intersection of the Marketplace and God’s Mission Sterling, VAJanuary 29-31, 2025 Learn More About the AuthorTravis CollinsTravis...
What it Means When Your New Church Fails Travis Collins | 24 Aug 2016 Travis Collins, Mission Strategist for Fresh Expressions US and Senior Pastor of First Baptist Church Huntsville explains why it’s inevitable that some fresh expressions fail, and what to do when...
10 Essential Lessons from a Real Church with Multiple Expressions Travis Collins | 5 Jul 2016 At the Refreshing Mountain Camp in Central Pennsylvania, I interviewed two guys who know about one congregation launching multiple fresh expressions of church. Mike Snedeker is the Lead Pastor of...
Announcing: From the Steeple to the Street Travis Collins | 28 Mar 2016 We’re pleased to announce our first book From the Steeple to the Street: Innovating Mission and Ministry through Fresh Expressions of Church is now available for pre-order! Get it here as an e-Book,...
Shawn the Pioneer Travis Collins | 9 Mar 2016 There is no typical pioneer story. No prototype. No firm, absolute model. No rules. So I don’t tell the following story to say this is what a pioneer looks like. I...
Three Options to Reach the Unchurched Travis Collins | 6 Jan 2016 Theology, the “Queen of the Sciences,” had its beginning in mission fields, not academic halls. The Christian faith’s most important theologian, the apostle Paul, was first and foremost a missionary....
Multi-Sites or Fresh Expressions? Which is Better for Your Church? Travis Collins | 30 Nov 2015 One of the most popular developments in church life over the last fifteen years is that of churches having multiple sites, or campuses. “One church in multiple locations” is the...
Indigenous and Traditional: My Calling to Fresh Expressions for the US Travis Collins | 9 Nov 2015 I was twenty-two when I had a mystical experience which I remember vividly. I was crossing a wide street, heavy with traffic, in downtown Caracas, Venezuela. Somewhat similar to (albeit...
Can Your Kind of Church Change Your Kind of World? Travis Collins | 12 Oct 2015 Rapid and dramatic changes are occurring in our world. More parents are rearing their children alone. More grandparents are rearing their grandchildren. Sons and daughters are living longer with their...

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