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Bishop Kenneth C. Ulmer: Convocation Speakers you do not want to miss 5 Oct 2021 Bishop Kenneth C. Ulmer Bishop Kenneth C. Ulmer has been Senior Pastor of Faithful Central Bible Church in Los Angeles since1982. In 2000, the congregation purchased The Great Western Forum...
5 Lessons from our Veteran’s Dinner Church Greg Lemaster | 1 Oct 2021 If I were to compose a list of all the things we have learned (so far) by starting Dinner Churches for our Veterans of War the list would be very...
Convocation Speakers you don’t want to miss – Dr. Wayne Faison 28 Sep 2021 We are thrilled to have Dr. Wayne Faison as one of our presenters at the Future Church Convocation. Specifically, Dr. Faison will be sharing on Black Church Revitalization/Re-Missioning the African-American...
Six Essential Steps in Starting New Church Communities Luke Edwards | 6 Sep 2021 The following is an excerpt from Becoming Church: A Trail Guide for Starting Fresh Expressions. In the summer of 2007, my friends and I graduated from high school and piled...
Dinner Church: Something Opportunistic is Happening Verlon Fosner | 27 Aug 2021 The Dinner Church movement is not happening in a cultural vacuum; there is a reason why it is rebirthing now. We would do well to place these New Passovers that...
Dinner Church: Something Unearthly is Happening Verlon Fosner | 25 Aug 2021 We are accustomed to the way things work in the local church. We have our regular rhythms of holidays, kick-offs, events and programs. We are quite comfortable with the way...
Dinner Church: Something Historical is Happening Verlon Fosner | 23 Aug 2021 The dinner church is not an innovation; it is a recovery project. For the first three-hundred years of Christianity the Jesus Table was the most used sociological form of Christian...
How Does God Want Us to Use Our Buildings? Jon Davis | 5 Aug 2021 On February 27th 380 AD Christianity became the official state religion of the Roman Empire and many would say in that moment the era of Christendom began. We can make...
Love Languages: Bringing New Life to Struggling Congregations Michael Beck | 2 Aug 2021 “But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first.” Revelation 2:4 Being a pastor these days is not easy! Even before the pandemic...
Announcing the The Future Church Convocation Dee Stokes | 19 Jul 2021 The Pandemic has shifted many things in our society, including The Church. But, God’s Church has never and will never close! Jesus promised that the gates of hell would not...
How To Tell Stories About Jesus That Unchurched People Will Love Verlon Fosner | 8 Jul 2021 Because Dinner Churches and other Fresh Expressions gather people with little or no experience with church or Scripture, we often serve folks who find the Bible opaque. So, we began looking...
You Can Turn Pew-Sitters into Key Leaders. Here’s how. Chris Backert | 1 Jul 2021 We all know the ugly truth – many people attend our churches who come and “sit” or, as we have all learned in the last 18 months, “watch.” They are...

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