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As Mountainview plans to launch a campus this fall in Westwood, an economically depressed, racially diverse, part of Denver –I thought the following article from Artie Davis to be insightful. ———- multi-ethnic church doesn’t just happen. You have to be intentional in your ministry approach. If you are not intentional, you probably will never have [...]

I picked up a copy of Dave and Jon Ferguson’s book “Exponential” yesterday.  After reading the first fifty pages, my first question was: “Why didn’t I buy this book five years ago?”  Then I realized it hadn’t been written five years ago … so I felt a bit less guilty. In 2001, when Tonya and [...]

Here are my notes from a church planting webinar I attended today: Lessons from the Trenches.  The host/leader was Andy Wood, senior pastor at South Bay Church in Silicon Valley.  It was fantastic! ******** Andy Woods – South Bay ChurchFebruary 2, 2012 Lessons from the Trenches 1.  The importance of giving the unreached a voice [...]

In some churches, breaking into leadership requires the blessing of Moses or an act of God — or both. Older churches may be unknowingly restricting their leadership pipeline.  If you require new leaders to work within existing confines, you are restricting the type of leader who will step forward to lead.  Existing churches often need [...]

One of the best ways to learn is to alternate between lecture and lab.  Unfortunately, when it comes to reaching people for Jesus, many churches are too heavy on lecture and light on lab. Older, existing churches are tempted to create committees to study the subject of evangelism.  New churches must evangelize or starve. Enduring [...]

Tim Keller, senior pastor at Redeemer Presbyterian in New York City, states that we need new churches to reach: new generations new residents new people groups From own experience planting a new church in San Diego (shout out to LifePoint!), I’ve found that new churches are extremely effective at doing just what Keller describes.  As [...]

Yesterday I had the privilege of preaching at Elevation Christian Church in Aurora.  On the previous weekend, they celebrated their one-year anniversary as a church.  Scott Bloyer, Ryan Duncan, and the rest of the team have done a great job of launching a healthy church. Elevation has grown from just a handful of people to [...]

The Exponential Conference is coming up in a few days (April 26-29) in Orlando, Florida.  It’s one of the largest gatherings of church planters and church planting networks in the country.  I had the privilege of attending when I planted our church in San Diego, working with Stadia: New Church Strategies. Exponential is a great [...]

The “official” (not that there is an unofficial) website of Church Planters of the Rockies is up and live.  I was commissioned to design the site and did a soft launch back in January.   In putting it together, I had the following goals: Presenting CPR in a modern and professional way Serving as a conduit [...]

I just read a great article entitled, “What Makes a Great Entrepreneur?” over at Venture Beat.  As I usually do, I read business articles through my pastoral lenses.  In other words, substitute “church planter” for “entrepreneur” and see what I mean. Here are the highlights: Guts.  The entrepreneur world is not for the timid.  You [...]