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Fewer Women Are Going to Church. Here’s How Church Plants Can Fix It.

Rivers Partin

Recent research has brought to light a deeply concerning shift: for the first time in decades, women are attending church less than men.   For those who care about the spiritual health of our neighbors, this is heavy. For those of us in...

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Your Calling Can’t be Calculated: Assessments and Almost Moments in Church Planting

Noah Oldham

I’ll never forget the day my sending church pastor walked into my office with an email in his hand. He said, “We got your score back from the church planting assessment— specifically your entrepreneurial score. It came back a 38.”...

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3 Things the Storms of Life Help Us See

Ronnie Martin

The first of the year equals desperate times for people in the Midwest. All of the whimsical, Christmas snow that fell so delicately a month before has now turned into piles of icy despair sprinkling the landscape. A 50-degree day...

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6 Reasons to Start a Men’s Ministry

Barnabas Piper

In a church plant, it is hard to know what to emphasize, what to pour your energy into. There are the non-negotiables like preaching, member care, and evangelism (although how you go about evangelism is a whole other pile of questions)....

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Overcoming Discouragement

Adam Muhtaseb

Have you ever been truly discouraged?  Not mildly frustrated. Not just worn out after a long week. But the kind of discouragement that makes you quietly wonder, “Can I actually keep going?”  Several years into planting in Baltimore, I hit that wall. ...

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In this episode of the New Churches podcast, host Tony Merida is joined by Matt Smethurst and Daniel Santander to discuss one of the most essential tasks of a church planter: making disciples.

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