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Everywhere You Look: The Church After COVID
Uncategorized, church leadership, church planter, Church Planting, church planting resources, coronavirus, covid-19, missional church, missional church planting, missional community, missional discipleship, Missional Leadership, missional resource, pandemic, Parish Collective, Place-based ChurchEven before the pandemic, the practical imagination of what the church is and what it exists for felt like it was already up for grabs. The COVID pandemic has accelerated this confusion while also creating new opportunities for innovatio...
Uncovered: How My Response to these Times Matters
Uncategorized, church leadership, church planter, Church Planting, church planting resources, heart, missional church, missional church planting, missional community, missional discipleship, Missional Leadership, missional resource, reflectionAs church planters and church leaders, as we’re busy carrying the weight of leadership in these times, trying to bring clarity in the midst of confusion while being confused ourselves, trying to help those who have suffered great loss ...
Emotional Health
Uncategorized, church planter, church planter resource, contemplative, emotional health, emotional intelligence, emotionally healthy practices, holistic health, integration, missional discipleship, Missional-Incarnational, Rhythm and Rule of Life, rhythms, self awareness, soul care, spiritual health, spiritual practices, spiritualityI have lived in Miami for the past ten years, but before moving to Miami I lived in Red River, New Mexico for the better part of three years. Red River is in northern New Mexico, about twenty miles from the Colorado border, and is absolu...
Church Without Walls Part 2
Uncategorized, church leadership, church planter, Church Planting, church planting resources, coronavirus, covid-19, Discipleship, distributed leadership, five-fold gifting, holistic gospel, missional church, missional church planting, missional community, missional discipleship, Missional Leadership, missional resource, Neighborhood ChurchCovid19 has been tough on church worship services, but it has also exposed something beautiful—the Church can gather without walls. When you pare down the Church to its essentials, something potent is discovered at its core. Could it b...
Recovering Purpose in the Pandemic
Uncategorized, coronavirus, covid-19, missional church, missional community, Missional Leadership, neighborhood, pandemic, rhythms, servant leadership“Maintaining motivation is becoming an increasing challenge for many people slogging through life curtailed by the coronavirus pandemic,” observes Jane Brody in the New York Times. Are you among the growing number of people who are j...
Learning from Tomatoes as We Reopen Our Churches
Uncategorized, church leadership, church planter, Church Planting, church planting resources, coronavirus, covid-19, Discipleship, gardening, pandemic, spiritual practices, spiritualityOne of the interesting responses to the current pandemic has been a turning back to gardening. Plant nurseries and online seed catalogue companies have been inundated with orders for seeds, planting boxes and fertilizers. First time gard...
Church Without Walls
Uncategorized, church leadership, church planter, Church Planting, church planting resources, coronavirus, covid-19, Discipleship, distributed leadership, five-fold gifting, holistic gospel, missional church, missional church planting, missional community, missional discipleship, Missional Leadership, missional resource, Neighborhood Church, pandemicCovid19 has been tough on church worship services, but it has also exposed something beautiful—the Church can gather without walls. When you pare down the Church to its essentials, something potent is discovered at its core. Could it b...
What is My Role in the Story of Racism?
Uncategorized, black lives matter, church leadership, church planter, Church Planting, church planting resources, george floyd, holistic gospel, intercultural, jr woodward, Justice, lament, missional church, missional church planting, missional community, missional discipleship, Missional Leadership, missional resource, peacemaking, principalities and powers, racismI don’t like to grieve, I prefer to smile, but I find myself grieving. I don’t like to lament, I prefer to find ways to anesthetize the pain, but I find myself lamenting. Watching the cruel murder of George Floyd by a police officer...
The Planter’s Life: John Carter
Uncategorized, church leadership, church planter, church planter resource, church planter's life, Church Planting, church planting resources, Leadership, missional church planting, missional discipleship, podcast, the planter's lifeHear the story of how John Carter and team are starting a missional community amongst artists at the hub of a recording studio in Ithaca, NY. You can watch here, listen on Spotify, or download the V3 app for a first look at all of our...
