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I’m coming to the end of my trip to the USA.
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I’ve loved spending a few days at the Spanish River Church Plant Retreat #srcpr!
This incredible gospel-centred church gives 20% of their budget away each year towards church planting! In the last 12 months they have been part of planting 77 churches in 25 different nations!! Generosity like this will keep changing the world and echo into eternity.
Guy Mason was inspiring as he shared stories in church this morning of how the message of Christ is changing people’s lives through City on a Hill in #Australia.
#churchplanting #gospel #knowjesus #makejesusknown
One year ago Redemption Church Melbourne began in Ringwood. Lead by Pastor Sam Wright and his wife Meeya, Redemption was planted as an independent church out of City on a Hill.
This epic video was shown at the Acts 29 National Conference on the Gold Coast this weekend. So much worth celebrating!!
I’m currently attending In The Chute. It’s a conference run by the newly formed church planting network, The Geneva Push. The conference has been very well run. The Geneva Push is an impressive, well-thought out gospel-centred movement.
We’ve heard from Andrew Heard, Al Stewart, Mikey Lynch, Tim Baldwin, Paul Dale, Wayne Pickford, Jim Wallace, Mark Dever, Cathie Heard, Dave Sheath and Scott Parry-Jones. It’s all been great content and I’m praying that God would use this movement to plant 1000s of gospel centred, cross-driven, Christ-exalting churches throughout Australia. (What’s all the fuss about Jesus? Check this)
Mikey Lynch has been dominating the live blogging while we’re here. Seriously there’s like infinity posts. (If you’re reading this after the event – check the first post – and then keep clicking ‘newer post’ in the bottom left corner to work your way through them!)
Interested in Aussie church planting? Regardless of your denomination, check out The Geneva Push for a killer network.
The Geneva Push are really starting to gain some momentum. In the Chute conference is less than a month away and they have just launched their new website. It’s a smart and functional site that should prove to be a valuable resource for church planters.
“The Geneva Push is an Australian church planting network. We aim to raise up a new generation of church planters dedicated to evangelising churches into existence across this great nation.
The Geneva Push is named after the city where the reformer John Calvin did most of his ministry. He raised up hundreds of missionaries and church planters to other cities and countries. Our goal is to have a similar impact on the number of churches being planted in Australia.”
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Andrew Heard, Al Stewart and Mikey Lynch have recently announced the beginning of a new national church planting network, GENEVA. Here’s an interview with Andrew Heard.
Because of the gospel imperative to keep proclaiming Christ to the world. We want to swamp Australia with healthy, energetic, theologically grounded churches that can turn our county upside down by reaching thousands more for Christ.
The aim of Geneva is to be a servant to the denominations and networks. It isn’t interested in being anything in itself. We want to be a tool that others use. The power of pooling our resources across the various denominations and networks from around the country is that we can do much more than we could do separately.
Rowan Hilsden will be finishing at Moore College at the end of this year. In 2010 Rowan, his wife Sarah and their family will be moving to Auckland to plant an evangelical church. This is exciting stuff!! Check out their website for info on how you can partner with them in this venture… whether you’re in Auckland or not. Here’s a snippet from their site:
[…] Auckland is a city in dire need for biblically based teaching which is theologically grounded, focused on Jesus and seeking growth. […] We would love to get in contact with anyone in Auckland: Who wants to see Auckland impacted by the life, death, resurrection and ascension of the historical Jesus; Who is thirsting for good teaching that leads to maturity in Christ; Who has not yet experienced the wonder of knowing Christ.
Check out their website to find out how you can get in on the action!