I recently read Malcolm Gladwell’s book “Tipping Point”. Gladwell explores (very entertainingly) factors that trigger the emergence of epidemics (i.e. ideas, trends or diseases that rapidly emerge in a population to massive effect). As a Christian, it immediately...
Nurturing church plants to have BOTH a mission mindset and strong relationships with the local community (Part 2) The challenge we are faced with is to build a mission-minded Christian community with deep and wide-ranging relational connections. We want everyone to end up in area C. In...
Nurturing church plants to have BOTH a mission mindset and strong relationships with the local community (Part 1) Since planting a church on a social housing development in central London 3 years ago, by God’s grace, we have grown in two ways. Firstly, a small but growing group of...
Church planting: Should the meeting or the community take priority at the outset? (Part 3 – Understanding “the culture gap” and introducing “rent-a-crowd”) I’ve asked the question whether establishing a church meeting is always the best strategy...
Church planting: Should the “church meeting” or the “church community” take priority at the outset? (Part 2 – A “community led” model; read part 1 here) COMMUNITY-LED CHURCH PLANTS: Under this approach, the church-planting team focus on...
Posted by Radstock Staff Have you ever felt your heart swell on news of what God is doing in other places? I had one of those experiences recently, when, on a fleeting visit, I heard a snippet of what God is doing in Inner Mongolia: new churches being planted, young leaders being...
The church that I pastor is located in Northern Virginia, about a half hour outside of Washington, DC. We have a great and increasingly common mission field: our own backyard. The neighborhood in which our church is situated is about 70% immigrant, mostly Latin American and Asian Indian. Our...
Geni Begu reports on the spiritual attrition in Kosovo as churches take forward the good news, amidst great trials within and without.
Anthony Adams, Radstock UK Director, reflects on the spiritual hunger of the people of Uttar Pradesh, India.
Posted by Paul Williams Part of The Crowded House network of churches, Urban Life is a church seeking to bring Gospel hope and transformation in an inner-city area of Derby, UK. Recently we caught up with Andy Thomson, a member of the team at Urban Life, and asked him how things are going...