Earlier this month, my wife and I experienced another milestone–our youngest child entered kindergarten. All three of our kiddos are officially enrolled in school. Thankfully, the transition has been great for everyone. Since students across the United States have recently returned to classes, I thought it would be most appropriate […]
Monthly Archives: August 2011
My next book, Strangers Next Door: Immigration, Migration, and Missions Opportunity, is scheduled to be released with Biblica in March 2012. While I have shared a few matters on Twitter, I want use today’s post to provide you with some detailed information that can’t be included in 140 characters. This […]
Update on the Strangers Next Door
This week I begin a semester-long training course for church planters. I always look forward to it. One of the first things that the participants experience is that I quickly tell them that our work is not about church planting. Now, I recognize this is a strange statement for a […]
It’s not about Church Planting
I had the honor of spending the last two days in Hernando, Mississippi serving as one of the speakers for the first annual meeting of the One8 Network. Since several of the participants requested copies of my Power Point presentations, I told them that I would post them here on […]
One8 Network
The Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College has just published a new book on church planting. Extending God’s Kingdom: Church Planting Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow is a compilation of chapters written by church planters and missiologists. Over the years, these chapters appeared as articles in various volumes of the Evangelical […]