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The Amore Project: Church and Mission Begin at Home 29 Jun 2016 Starting a Fresh Expression doesn’t always mean doing church at a pub or club. Sometimes it means inviting the neighborhood into your home, and extending what it is we mean by...
Tattoo Parlor Church: Bad Idea or Responsible Mission? Michael Beck | 27 Jun 2016 “Preacher… this is a really bad idea.” The woman standing in my office stating these words was a matriarch of our congregation; a person of influence, whom I normally looked...
Dinner Church: Making Space for People Who Don’t Get Sunday Mornings 8 Jun 2016 What happens when your church starts meeting people who find Sunday morning worship strange, or even alienating? Watch how one Church created a new space to bring the kingdom of...
Who Determines How Generous You Will Be? Joshua Hearne | 6 Jun 2016 Honestly, we weren’t prepared for that much bread. It had all started when he called me out of the blue and told me that he worked for a bread company...
Fletcher and Gage Joshua Hearne | 4 May 2016 When we gather as a community to pray together, we really gather to do a lot of things. We sing and keep silence. We give thanks for the day fast...
Celebrating Lent with Hungry People Joshua Hearne | 25 Apr 2016 For many of our folks, this was the first time they’d ever attended an “Ash Wednesday” service. After discussing what Ash Wednesday was all about—repentance, recommitment, preparation for the Lenten...
Carl, Tasha, and Misplaced Chains Joshua Hearne | 21 Mar 2016 “I could probably quit, too, if I really wanted to do it,” Carl told me over one of our many meals together. As a dozen small conversations floated around us,...
Workout, Worship, Beer and Hymns George Linney | 14 Mar 2016 An eight year old who is a fellow church planter and the functional deacon of our church, said to me the other day, “So heaven is where everyone goes to...
Watch: A Fresh Expression for Gamers! 28 Dec 2015 Whether you love video games, board games or party games, you’ll love this approach to introducing people to church. Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Email Leadership Tune-up February 3-4A Two-Day...
Learning to Pray in a Fresh Expression of Church Joshua Hearne | 9 Dec 2015 It’s already about twelve minutes after the time we’re supposed to get started when I step out onto the porch. “Five minutes and we’re going to get started, y’all,” I...
Our Friends Asked Us the Wrong Question. Here’s How Fresh Expressions Helped. Jay Smith | 23 Nov 2015 When we started Convergence, we didn’t know anything about this concept called “Fresh Expressions.” After all, we started merely a year after Fresh Expressions US was founded in response to...
Watch: Uncommon Grounds, a “Listening Space” 19 Nov 2015 Uncommon Grounds in a fresh expression of Church that was started when some people noticed that “there were bars to get drunk at and churches to get preached at” but...

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