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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...
How One Church is Exploring Three Fresh Expressions 8 Dec 2014 John Maher is the Vicar of St. Francis Episcopal Church in Manakin Sabot, Virginia. Here, he explains how they have recently launched three Fresh Expressions of Church. In the fall of 2013 five...
The Chosen and the Cha Cha Slide Travis Collins | 1 Dec 2014 The Call to Worship was, well, the Cha Cha Slide. And I slid. Cha Cha style. Then we ate pizza. Then we did the Chicken Dance. Then, when we sang,...
How to Create a Discipling Environment for Underwhelmed People Chris Morton | 25 Nov 2014 Where we’re experimenting with a Fresh Expression the word “unchurched” doesn’t apply. Two Types of People Underwhelmed by Church For about a decade, the unofficial slogan of our city has...
Pastor Dropout: What To Do? Travis Collins | 24 Nov 2014 In a recent interview, Fresh Expression’s Travis Collins addressed an alarming dropout rate among Pastors. Being a pastor has never been an easy job, but relatively new dynamics — a postmodern and...
A Review of a Recent Vision Day 20 Nov 2014 The Fresh Expressions Team just finished a great Vision Day at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. Here’s how they described it: On Nov. 14, 2014, pastors and lay-leaders came from all around our...
Convergence: a Strikingly Creative Expression of Church Travis Collins | 17 Nov 2014 I recently spent a morning with two of the most creative Jesus-followers I know—Jay and Lisa Smith. Lisa is Pastor, and Jay is Cultural Architect, of Convergence, a unique community...
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...
Four Practices that Create an Eco-System for Fresh Expressions of Church Chris Backert | 10 Nov 2014 One of the things that I love most about the fresh expressions movement is that it is not overly complicated. While there is a deep theology and ecclesiology behind it,...
What the Presbyterian News Service is Saying About Fresh Expressions 6 Nov 2014 1001 new worshiping communities is movement happening in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Here’s what they had to say about a recent Fresh Expressions Vision Day: “’Fresh Expressions’ is not ‘the’...
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...
What Duke Divinity School is Saying About Fresh Expressions 29 Oct 2014 Here’s how Duke professor L. Gregory Jones describes Fresh Expressions in a recent reflection from their Faith & Leadership page. The Fresh Expressions movement is one example of a Christian experiment that...

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