God is doing a new thing in local churches across America and around the world.  For a long time many churches have primarily engaged in world missions in a support role, limiting their participation to sending money and people through mission organizations.  As a...

I'm in Great Falls, Montana coaching a great church, Harvest Springs Community.  Great Falls was named after a series of huge waterfalls discovered by Lewis and Clark along the upper Missouri River.... Today, this one dam (pictured above) channels the massive volume...

A Message From Matthew Ellison about Summer Missions What are summer mission trips all about?  By now, most of you have realized that summer mission trips are not summer camp.  Summer missions is not about more of those clever summer youth events that give you those...

Denny Spitters, Pioneers VP of Church Partnerships God is doing some incredible work in the nations of the world that are “unreached”! For example, in many Muslim contexts He is preparing the way with nation-state changes like the “Arab Spring” and using other...

 Join Sixteen:Fifteen for a FREE Webinar with Pioneers! "Church Planting Movement - Making Disciples & Church Planting in Difficult Places"  July 24, 2013, 12 Noon to 1PM MDT (WEBINAR HAD ENDED) Sixteen:Fifteen:  Well, hopefully you've whet readers' appetites with...

The Danger of the Term “Missionary” By Larry Sharp Missionaries have been identified as the ones tasked with making disciples, planting churches and witnessing cross-culturally to the grace of God. But there are three reasons why I think the word missionary has served...

Sixteen:Fifteen is honored to swing swords with the Upstream Collective, and blessed to have them  as a strategic ministry partner.  You'll definitely want to "lean in" to hear what they have to say...we trust that it will encourage your heart and equip your mind....