Posts under ‘Church Planting’

Last night, New Life Church held its annual end-of-the-school-year celebration service, Overflow. We probably had about 300 in attendance (during finals!), soaking in all that God has done this school year. We danced, sang at the top of our lungs, heard story upon story of lives that have been radically transformed by the love and [...]

A couple of interesting next-generation Charismatic church movements have recently converged to compile the new documentary 1040. The movie, named for the “10/40 Window” that houses the vast majority of the world’s unevangelized population, features Jaeson Ma (Campus Church Networks / studentchurch.org) and Mike Bickle (International House of Prayer)  telling the story of the current [...]

A while back, I was listening to Craig Whitney speak at the Exponential Conference about how his organization, Emerging Leadership Initiative, evaluates potential church planters. He said that, among other things, they evaluate personality based on a Myers-Briggs, DiSC, and StrengthsFinder evaluation. I tend to really enjoy personality tests because they help me distinguish between what all [...]

This past Sunday, our sister church h2o at The Ohio State University kicked off its first service of the 2009-2010 school year. The church was planted last summer by a team from New Life Church at the University of Michigan (scandalous, I know), and what’s going on at OSU is beyond amazing.  They had their first-ever church service [...]

For those of you who know me well, I am a compulsive strategist (ENTJ for you Myers-Briggs types). You probably also know that I’m more passionate about the Church of Jesus Christ than just about anything. Therefore, I rather enjoy the intersection of those two passions of mine. This is going to be one of those [...]