I am writing this from an internet cafe in Kosovo. We are on a short-term mission trip this week where we are trying to assist a local church here in their work amongst families in the community. It is a good time and as I have been here I have been reminded of the importance of flexibility, and...
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...
It has been 20 years since the Berlin Wall, symbolizing the Iron Curtain and
the separation of West and East, came down. This event marked the beginningof the collapse of the oppressive Soviet regime, which repressed freedom andevery form of missionary activity in the enormous territory...
The Way of the Cross = The Way of Joy
In our second and final peek at Tim Chester's new book, Tim gives us a timely reminder that walking in the way of the cross really means walking the way of joy!
Click here to download this chapter.
For the rest, we really recommend that you buy...
Radstock hits You Tube!
Check out the interviews with Tim Chester and other international church planters at Radstock's recent international conference:
www.youtube.com/user/RadstockTV