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Church for All Abilities: An Interview About Joy Church
Greg Lemaster | 22 Jul 2024
“It’s not your typical Sunday morning church. It’s a sensory-friendly church where individuals and families with special needs can come together and be themselves as they joyfully worship Jesus with...
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Rediscovering the Spiritual Practice of Pilgrimage
Luke Edwards | 8 Apr 2024
In the small mountain community of Robbinsville, North Carolina sits a little church on the hill overlooking town. Robbinsville UMC is the only United Methodist church in Graham County, the...
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We’re Not Training Our Pastor. Here’s Why.
Jeanette Staats | 2 Apr 2024
Our church is starting a new hiking initiative that may even grow into a new expression of Church. We’re so invested in the possibility we’re getting special training for it....
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4 Lessons from a Small Church That Revolutionized an Apartment Community
Heather Jallad | 7 Feb 2024
“You have changed the atmosphere in this place!” the apartment complex manager told the pastor after three months of “Lunch Church” with the residents. A retired school teacher, Pastor Tim,...
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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...
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Thanksgiving All Year Long
Brad Andres | 18 Nov 2022
Thanksgiving All Year Long One evening during the Community Dinner, Roger sneaks up next to me and whispers, “Hey, how do I give some money to this?” I couldn’t help...
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Fresh Expressions Journey: Six Steps that Can Move People from Isolation to Christian Community
Luke Edwards | 10 Oct 2022
The Fresh Expressions journey is a six-stage process for forming a new Christian community. In this article, you will read real-life examples of Listening, Loving People, Building Community, Exploring Discipleship,...
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From Foodie to Street-Level Missionary
Megan Monterrosa | 12 Jul 2022
Jesus. The Gospel. Evangelism. Reaching the lost. Helping the poor. Missional churches. The Great Commission. All good terms and ideas. All things we know we care about, but if we’re...
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Two Stories of God Changing Lives We Weren’t Expecting
Larry Bogenrief | 27 Jun 2022
I am a church planter, and I had a desire to plant another church. I have a burden for the community and have been involved in many different approaches to...
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No Longer Agnostic
Brad Andres | 15 Jun 2022
Drenched with sweat from setting up a tent and dodging bees swarming by the food; the 90-degree sun rays barreled on my forehead. It was a good thing all the...
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Community Dinner: How a Small Church Started is Meeting New People
Jon Davis | 6 Jun 2022
In Cedar Key, Florida the pandemic brought a pause to ministry events and gathering of people. We did not stop dreaming, hoping and planning for a new missional focus reaching...
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Puppy Church
Tim Barnes | 26 May 2022
Like many churches coming out of the Covid-19 pandemic, we’ve invested a lot of time and energy at St. Matthew’s into re-evaluating everything we were doing before lock-down, before we...