Author: Christian Coon Publisher: ISBN: 9781950899241 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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After more than a year of adjusting the being the church during a pandemic, churches are considering ways to take advantage of the post-pandemic time as a period to reach out to their communities a create new methods of worship.In Expanding the Expedition Through Church Partnerships, author Christian Coon leads readers to consider the possibilities of a church partnership. Coon suggests ingredients to help readers through the process of making important decisions and/or taking steps forward. These include Engaging in intentional prayer, listening to many different voices, reflecting on the Scriptures, asking the "What if?" question, anticipating pushback and possibly sabotage. The author quickly admits that all of these ingredients are not original. They have been handed down through the ages with our ancestors of the faith using them, tweaking them, and adding to them. The reader is invited to find beauty in items that may seem out of date or irrelevant.
Author: Wayne Schmidt Publisher: ISBN: 9781950899340 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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There is a growing "gospel gap" across North America and around the world. More people than ever do not have the opportunity to make an informed decision about Jesus or even know personally a follower of Christ. While we're grateful for every spiritually interested seeker who begins their exploration by visiting a local church, much more often it is in the everyday places of life that they come into contact with those who winsomely and fully follow Christ.There has never been a significant movement of God without the significant engagement of lay people. When laypeople partner with pastors, the potential for Kingdom advancement intensifies. This leads to disciples making disciples (discipling disciples), people being empowered in faith, and equipped to grow so that God's Spirit fills every part of them and ripples out into the lives around them.The authors of Marketplace Multipliers believe the marketplace, where believers and those yet to believe cross paths every day, provides an intersection for a multiplication movement.Best-selling author Kay Kotan, Wayne Schmidt and Carrie Whitcher seek to be one example of "clergy and laity" partnering together in order to fulfill the Great Commission to "Go and make disciplesThis book is part of The Greatest Expedition series, aimed at providing assistant to congregations who want to do more than "stay in place," but to move out into the world.
Author: Rachel Gilmore Publisher: ISBN: 9781950899265 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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Author Rachel Gilmore writes that missional communities are popping up in auto shops, pubs, parks, and tattoo parlors. The pandemic of Covid-19 created virtual missional communities that meet in a Zoom room to talk about parables while eating pizza that they all ordered from a local restaurant. Missional communities are springing up by using the house party app where friends and friends of friends gather to play games and pray for situations they are facing during quarantine.In her book, Expanding the Expedition Reach with Missional Communities, Gilmore discusses three primary reasons churches must take mission communities more seriously and what to do to make more missional communities a reality.Chapters include: What is a Missional Community? Why do we Need Missional Communities? Listen and Discern; Love, Serve & Gather; Disciple and Worship; Mature; and Multiplication.Intended to serve as a companion to The Greatest Expedition (greatestexpedition.com) or a standalone guide, Expanding The Expedition Reach With Missional Communities is a must-read for churches as we sort through the post-pandemic period of Christianity.
Author: William D. Taylor Publisher: William Carey Publishing ISBN: 1645082504 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 304
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The church/missions community must move beyond superficial fellowship and simple networking to true partnerships, cooperative ventures, and the sharing of resources. This will result in synergy - a phenomenon where the output is greater than the sum of its parts. Twenty-two missions leaders from around the world speak candidly to these issues and call us to reflection, relationship and engagement without which the nations of this world will not be discipled for Christ.
Author: Hilda Kabia Publisher: Church Publishing, Inc. ISBN: 1640650539 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 221
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By identifying key theological, cultural, and practical issues for mission partnerships, this book aims to provide best practices for missions to thrive around the world. In an era where partnership and communion seem to be under threat, this book re-imagines mission partnership in a diverse and pluralist world. Building on the work of the Center for Anglican Communion Studies (VTS) and the Mission Department of the Anglican Communion Office, the book identifies and addresses key theological, cultural, and practical issues that need to be addressed for mission partnerships to thrive. Key among these issues is listening: listening to one another is a profound challenge given socio-economic differences, power differentials, and linguistic divides. Drawing from mission experience, the authors offer best practices for discipleship as listening. Written across cultural differences, the authors hail from Zambia, the United Kingdom, Haiti, India, Latin America, Native American, South Africa, Turkey, the United States, and Lebanon. Each chapter invites readers to explore issues in their context through hearing scripture, hearing each other, and hearing the Spirit.
Author: Tod Bolsinger Publisher: InterVarsity Press ISBN: 0830873872 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 278
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Do you ever feel that you are leading in uncharted territory? Pastor and consultant Tod Bolsinger draws on decades of expertise guiding churches and organizations in this expanded practical leadership resource, offering illuminating insights and practical tools to help you reimagine what effective church leadership looks like in our rapidly changing world.
Author: Ken Nash Publisher: ISBN: 9781950899272 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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Many churches come to a point in their journey where they have to answer questions regarding growth and expansion. This often leads to tiresome building campaigns, heated discussion about missional versus attractional models of ministry, and the like. However, a closer look at the multi-site movement will help answer many of the questions you may have. A multi-site ministry is one church meeting in several locations while sharing a common vision, budget, resources, leadership structure and strategy. Most importantly, the multi-site movement reminds us that we are truly better together and reaches a new generation of church-goers who desire to worship in their home communities. Its exponential growth in recent years reflects today's attempt to offer effective ministry in places our local ministries previously lacked the ability to reach. There are several reasons to consider an expedition into multi-site ministry,. In Multi-Site Ministry: Expanding the Reach, Ken Nash explores the primary reasons why multi-site is both biblical and preferable.
Author: Christian Coon Publisher: Upper Room Books ISBN: 088177880X Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 181
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This book is a must-read for anyone who has ever tried to energize or grow a ministry. Christian Coon takes us through his own missteps and mistakes as the co-founder of the Urban Village Church--as well as those of others working to do the same--and shows how failure can serve as a springboard to new possibilities and even a closer connection to God and what leadership means. Woven together with honesty, humility, and humor, we learn to look on failure as an actual gift that can be the gateway to a deeper journey.
Author: Mark Meuwese Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004215166 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 382
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Recent studies on Dutch encounters with indigenous peoples in the Americas and West Africa have taken a narrow regional approach rather than a comparative Atlantic perspective. This book, based on Dutch archival records and primary and secondary sources in multiple languages, integrates indigenous peoples more fully in the Dutch Atlantic by examining the development of formal relations between the Dutch and non-Europeans in Brazil, the Gold Coast, West Central Africa, and New Netherland from the first Dutch overseas voyages in the 1590s until the dissolution of the West India Company in 1674. By taking an Atlantic perspective this study of Dutch-indigenous alliances shows that the support and cooperation of indigenous peoples was central to Dutch overseas expansion in the Atlantic.
Author: Malyn Newitt Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134553048 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 319
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A History of Portuguese Overseas Expansion 1400-1668 provides an accessible survey of how the Portuguese became so influential during this period and how Portuguese settlements were founded in areas as far flung as Asia, Africa and South America. Malyn Newitt examines how the ideas and institutions of a late medieval society were deployed to aid expansion into Africa and the Atlantic islands, as well as how, through rivalry with Castile, this grew into a worldwide commercial enterprise. Finally, he considers how resilient the Portuguese overseas communities were, surviving wars and natural disasters, and fending off attacks by the more heavily armed English and Dutch invaders until well into the 1600s. Including a detailed bibliography and glossary, A History of Portuguese Overseas Expansion 1400-1668 is an invaluable textbook for all those studying this fascinating period of European expansion
Author: Christian Coon
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