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How to Help a Preacher’s Kid

Growing up as a preacher's kid brings unique blessings and pressures. Charity Walker-Byers explores the struggles ministry kids face and practical ways parents and caring adults can listen,…

Church Planting Organizations

A directory of church planting organizations and associations, including contact information and selected details about their vision, geographic focus, recent church plants, partnerships, and future plans.

So You Want to Plant a Church?

What should motivate someone to plant a church? R. Paige Mathews shares what experienced church planting leaders want to hear from candidates and the practical steps they recommend…

Power Planting

Brent Storms and Greg Nettle discuss the future of church planting, including urban ministry, planter assessment, lower-cost models, leadership development, international partnerships, and collaboration between Orchard Group and…

The Multigenerational Church

Steve Reeves explores the challenges, advantages, and opportunities of a multigenerational church, where older and younger believers learn to worship together, respect different perspectives, and strengthen one another.

Cultivating Cultures that Help People Flourish

What’s a Leader to Do?

Steve Hayner outlines practical ways leaders can shape a healthy organizational culture through careful assessment, intentional planning, open communication, meaningful rituals, and prayer.

What Makes a Culture Good?

Steve Hayner explores the qualities of a healthy organizational culture, including Christ-centered leadership, a shared sense of calling, open communication, trust, gratitude, affirmation, and celebration.

Nurturing Your Organization’s Culture

Steve Hayner examines how leaders shape organizational culture, why unhealthy cultures develop, and why primary leaders bear a unique responsibility for nurturing communities where people can flourish.

Counting Sheep

Steve Carr questions whether attendance numbers alone can measure church success, examining biblical examples, transfer growth, evangelism, and the need for a broader understanding of congregational faithfulness.

In Just One Year: Love Your City

Jon Ferguson explores Jeremiah 29 and challenges Christians to love their cities through exile, shalom, and prayer, seeking the peace and prosperity of the communities where God has…

In Just One Year: I Pray I’m Wrong

Rob Kastens considers Christianity’s decline in the West and growth across the Global South, calling Western churches to renew their commitment to disciple-making and support the expanding global…

In Just One Year: Momentous Change and Possibility

Douglas A. Foster considers how spiritual formation, care for marginalized people, church partnerships, Scripture, and Christlike transformation may shape the church amid a season of significant change.

In Just One Year: Tell Me It’s Not Just a Dream!

Eleanor Daniel, Emmanuel Christian Seminary, Lord's Supper, discipleship, global missions, congregational worship, church unity, Johnson City Tennessee,

In Just One Year: Pundit Predictions

Paul Boatman looks ahead from 2012 and considers what Christians may soon be saying about megachurches, Bible colleges, Restoration Movement heritage, and the changing future of Christian Standard.