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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...
Churches Should Stop Giving Away Stuff and Do This Instead Luke Edwards | 11 Nov 2015 Some days it seems like the American church only knows how to relate to our neighbors by giving something away. Like an absent father who has lost touch with his...
It’s Not Always Easy to be a Brother Joshua Hearne | 2 Nov 2015 It always happens after we’ve already described the bounty on the table in all of its delicious variety. It happens while the welcome knowledge of a soon-to-be-full stomach mingles with...
Watch: A Messy Church for Families Who Don’t Know How Church Works 15 Jul 2015 Everything changes when you add in kids. This goes for starting fresh expressions of church. Here, Joy French describes an approach that uses different types of learning that help families...
This Woman Transformed Her Sunday School Class into an Outdoor Church Travis Collins | 11 May 2015 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...
Miss Marti’s House: A Missional Micro-Expression Travis Collins | 12 Jan 2015 How Marti Got Her Street Cred He was shot just a few feet from her back door. Nine times. A tenth bullet missed him, came whizzing through one of Marti’s...
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...
Some Harmony in the Barn Gannon Sims | 12 Aug 2014 by Travis Collins Turnaround Cowboy Church: King William County, Virginia “Reining” is a form of horse competition. The routine takes a horse through a series of precise moves including the...
Travis Collins: Two Men & an Old Church Travis Collins | 5 Aug 2014 Steve Edwards and Charles Cheek look like something of an odd couple. Steve is a Caucasian man with an earring. He looks like he is familiar with life on the...
Travis Collins: Biker Church Travis Collins | 11 Jun 2014 I walked toward the building in (a former nightclub converted into the Seven Cities Freedom Biker Church building) with, I’ll admit, a little trepidation. This would be my first worship...
Going Beyond Safety for the Next Generation Gannon Sims | 7 May 2014 NextGen Church: West Windsor, New Jersey As is the case with most new churches, our understanding of NextGen Church’s mission and vision has evolved since its inception. In retrospect, we now...

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