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4 Key Reasons Why Network Church Planting Is Succeeding

By David Dummitt Church planting has been a dynamic practice for 20 centuries, with methods and strategies morphing in response to context and culture. Modern church planting is seeing tremendous success as it shifts from “traditional” to a network church-planting model. The classic “parachute-drop” model is one of the most common methods we have seen in the last century. In this model, a church planter sets out like a pioneer to launch a church where there is no church. Typically, in this traditional, high-risk model, the church planter sets out with limited resources and few (if any) connections. In the

The Human Side of HIV/AIDS

By Judy Fish You can”t see it with the naked eye. Few of us encounter it on a daily basis. It”s not partial to one race of people, or age, or gender. And at a glance, for those newly infected, it”s impossible to know who carries the virus and who doesn”t. From its arrival in 1981, when it affected only certain groups of people in a few countries, HIV has grown into a global pandemic, and now claims the most lives of any infectious disease (see the box on page 5). For the developed world, HIV is primarily a disease

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