1. The first church missions strategy on your list is having no strategy at all. The majority of churches in the past just left strategy to others. Why should church leaders wrestle with trying to determine a missions strategy specific to their congregation? Click...
Socrates may have been the source of the famous line, “The unexamined life is not worth living.” But he was merely reiterating a biblical principle that we need to examine our actions and motives. Both the “what” and the “why” of our lives are to be regularly...
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...
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...
