There are a lot of events for Church Planters these days. The Praxis Gathering stands out by creating space to interact with fellow practitioners. Each presenter is currently at work in grounded missional practice in different contexts throughout North America. Jon Tyson is one of the 27 practitioner presenters you’ll get to spend quality time with at The Praxis Gathering. Jon helped plant …
Tony Stefko is a Church Planter in Clarksville, Tennesee. He works bi-vocationally and is developing a unique and incarnational church community among his neighborhood and co-workers. We asked Tony to share a little about his experience in a V3 Learning Cohort. You can learn more about Tony and Quad 4 Church here. What originally drew you to the V3 learning …
Jesus final instructions might sound simple: Go and make disciples. Yet, there is often confusion about what a disciple is, and what is means to be a disciple-maker. The V3 Movement is committed to equipping you make disciples, plant churches and start a movement. In this video, Tim Catchim answers common questions that will help you do just that! “I …
Power is a tricky thing. I remember as a teenager discovering I had some speed and athleticism. I was no Superman, but I was a fast little goober that could throw the ball on target. That was enough in my small school to push me to the front. I made the football team and found I had power on the …
Lord knows the week of Easter can exist as a stressful, challenging, frustrating, adrenaline-laced time for most pastors. It continues to surprise me how much administrative work resurrection creates for the local church pastor. While Holy Week can generally be busy for the pastor, the workload can be particularly challenging for church planters, given that they often work with smaller …
It’s Holy week and Jesus journey towards the cross has begun. Many of us have already processed around the church on Palm Sunday. We have already bought our Easter eggs and hot cross buns, diverting our attention from the real meaning of Easter to its commercialized version. How many of us are sucked in? The Most Subversive Week of Jesus …
For the last few years Dan White Jr, others and I have been part of a national initiative concerned with one goal: helping church planters recover the essentials for cultivating communities of disciples who are sent deep into their cities to embody the Gospel of the Kingdom. It seems fairly simple, but it is not. Culturally, we are swimming in …
St. Patrick’s day is upon us. Whether you are are a green-beer drinking Irish Catholic or an abstaining evangelical, the person and legend of Patrick is essential study for every missional leader. The First Missionary In his masterful history of the Celtic Church, How the Irish Saved Civilization, Thomas Cahill makes the bold claim that Patrick was the first true …
Sunday was International Women’s Day, a day to celebrate the achievements of women around the world while calling for greater equality. It is not a day that many churches seem to highlight, but I think it raises the question: how well do we do with gender equality in our congregations? A couple of days ago, I was chatting with a friend …
Have you ever tried to retell a funny story or joke, only to have it fall flat as a pancake the second time around? When you add two thousand years between the telling, this is especially likely to happen. The parables of Jesus come from a distant time, an unfamiliar place, a completely different culture than the ones in which …