The pastor of a small church in rural Vermont is not the kind of guy you’d expect to speak with a slow North Carolina drawl. But Lyandon Warren felt a calling to New England ever since he heard a ...

A look at whether churches should expand through a missionary model rather than relying on professional entrepreneurial pastors to plant churches. Next year marks the one hundredth anniversary of ...

There was a time when the Foursquare Church denomination didn't have a very good track record in planting new churches. "Out of every 10 churches we tried to start, only three made it," says Alex Chai ...

A new initiative led by Thabiti Anyabwile aims to support leaders serving in distressed urban areas. A team of pastors including Thabiti Anyabwile and John Onwuchekwa have launched a new network—The ...

(RNS) — If evangelical churches want to reach people with the gospel, they need the skills of women and men of all backgrounds, say leaders like the Rev. Liz Rios. (RNS) — The Rev. Liz Rios has a ...

Launching a new church is a bold and challenging endeavor. Some thrive and grow, while others struggle to gain traction. What makes the difference? On a recent episode of The Church Planting Podcast, ...

While most churches strive to spread the Good News, each congregation has its own specific focus, an area in which its members feel especially called. City Church Cape Girardeau at 817 Broadway, which ...

INDIANAPOLIS (BP) -- Church planter Tony Manning can do a lot with a church of 60. They can mobilize to canvass the neighborhood and pray for people door-by-door. They can host a "Parents' Night Out" ...

“For the Apostle Paul, his leaving [Ephesus] was out of obedience to Christ,” Danny Parmelee S’04 says in a sermon announcing his resignation from epikos Church in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. “As I ...

A pastor who helped plant Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, urged Christians to continue proclaiming the Gospel amid what he discerns as an escalating cultural hostility in the United States, ...