Church Planting (Page 12)

Church Planting (Page 12)

Church Planting on the Grantham Estate!

Daniel and Grace Howson projectgrantham.co.uk contact@projectgrantham.co.uk   1.    Tell us a little about yourself. I am 50 years old and was born in France from missionary parents.  I became a Christian when I was ten, then a year later we moved back to England and my Dad became a pastor of an Evangelical Church in Suffolk. After leaving school, I spent two years…

Church Planting Supersite!!

I am always on the hunt for good resources when it comes to church planting. The problem we have in the UK is the lack of quality material on the topic, relevant to our context. The problem we have in housing schemes is contextualising material written for a largely middle class demographic. However, if you can think on your feet and are able to work hard at this,…

14 Obstacles We Face In Church Planting Ministry!

Housing scheme  ministry is a tough gig. It is made somewhat harder when you are and/or have renewed a stagnant and/or dying congregation. We do have to watch our for all sorts of obstacles. 1. People Fatigue – I know I am tired and I need to refocus spiritually when I get sick of people and…

Vision Casting v Visionary Leader: FIGHT!!

Vision Casting is a trendy new phrase doing the rounds at the moment, although there are those who would suggest it has been around in various guises for thousands of years. Consider this comment on one blog: Vision casting is Satanic and is a form of sorcery. According to our Lord Jesus in Revelation 22:14,15, these people are not among those whose robes are being washed…

Urban Myth: Inner City Young People Can’t Listen to Sermons!

by Mike Stark Most of us are familiar with the terms  ADD or ADHD (attention deficit disorder, or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder). We work with and know many local children who have been diagnosed as such, placing them in a box and giving them a medical label to help them understand their…

8 Keys to Housing Scheme Gospel Ministry (8)

Avoid Paternalism & Dependency Many, great, Western missiological thinkers have battled with the issue of paternalism in cross cultural contexts for decades. What exactly is paternalism? The essence of paternalism is providing outside direction and resources by some “mature” party to someone considered “immature” and not yet capable to carry full leadership…

8 Keys to Housing Scheme Gospel Ministry (7)

A Wholistic Approach to Christian Discipleship We would be foolish to think that the many problems of housing schemes could be solved by any one approach, or if we just managed to solve one particular problem. We see the foolishness of this thinking in Niddrie as we observe the many tens of millions spent on building new homes and schools etc and yet many of the deep,…

PROXIMITY: For People Interested In Urban Ministry

Incarnational Living | Church Planting | Urban Youth Ministry | Missional Community| Urban Church Proximity 2012 is a conference happening this May (25th-26th) in Salford, hosted by the Eden Network. It aims to bring these five streams above together in one place for two days of vision,…

8 Keys to Housing Scheme Gospel Ministry (6) Church Based Community Development (b)

Mark Dever notes on The Gospel Coalition blog, that: Since the Fall, the trajectory of unredeemed human history—the City of Man—is always in the Bible to judgment (the Flood, Babel, Canaan, Egypt, Jerusalem, Babylon, Rome & then Rev. 19). (Not quite as universal as gravity, but seemingly as…