Articles for tag: New Life Christian Church

January 1, 2022

Justin Horey

Where Do Church Planters Come From?

What do a lawyer, a football player, and a youth pastor have in common? It might sound like the setup to a bad joke, but it isn’t. All three are examples of professionals who recently left their jobs to plant independent Christian churches in the United States. Many of today’s church leaders are asking where tomorrow’s church leaders will come from. That’s a critical concern among church planters as well. In fact, Stadia president Greg Nettle says, “The number one challenge we face right now is our leadership pipeline of church planters.” Nettle and other church-planting leaders estimate it will

May 1, 2021

Justin Horey

SPOTLIGHT: New Life Christian Church (Chantilly, Virginia)

Bold People Exercising Bold Faith At a church as large and well-established as New Life Christian in Chantilly, Virginia, it might be tempting to get complacent. Prior to the arrival of coronavirus early in 2020, New Life helped create the Exponential Network, planted more than 300 churches, and regularly attracted thousands of people to worship services every Sunday. Still, senior pastor Brett Andrews was convinced the church needed something else: boldness. Andrews and the leaders at New Life wanted to get better at reproducing disciples, not just reproducing churches. For the last three years, the church has striven to increase

September 18, 2019

Christian Standard

Exponential, Outreach Team for ‘Church Multiplication Challenge’

Exponential and Outreach magazine are partnering for “The Church Multiplication Challenge,” and an initial goal of identifying 100 reproducing churches has expanded to 1,000. “We want to see reproduction and multiplication become normative,” Exponential CEO Todd Wilson says in an article at ReproducingChurches.org. “We want to see leaders changing their scorecards as they think differently about what it means to lead successful churches and to build legacies that last.” The response thus far has been encouraging, Wilson says, especially since an attempt several years ago to identify 10 rapidly multiplying churches fell far short. (The research team couldn’t find even

August 27, 2018

Christian Standard

Encounter Church, Washington D.C.—An Urban Mission Field

By Steve Carr A stretch of the famed Massachusetts Avenue in the District of Columbia is known as Embassy Row. This portion of the street is lined with more than 175 foreign embassies and diplomatic missions. Here in our country’s capital is a road representing the nations of the world coming together. A mere two miles from Embassy Row, a community of believers is dedicated to bringing the nations together for Christ. Nestled in the Columbia Heights neighborhood of Washington, D.C., Encounter Church was planted last year by Joel Pazmino and his wife, Meghan. On a recent trip through D.C.,

August 6, 2018

Christian Standard

Pontoon Boat Wedding a First for Minnesota Minister

By Jim Nieman Randy and Michelle Thoennes like to spend as much time as possible on the lake, so when it came time to choose a wedding location, they selected nearby Lake Darling. And not along the shore of Lake Darling in Minnesota, but in a boat on Lake Darling, flanked by about 15 other pontoon boats filled with more than 100 relatives and friends. The wedding party—which included minister John Taplin of New Life Christian Church in Alexandria, Minn.—glided down the middle of the guests’ boats, which were tethered together on either side. It was like they were “coming

June 20, 2018

Christian Standard

Members Use Homes for One-Another Ministry (plus News Briefs)

By Chris Moon After studying the book of Acts, members of East Win Christian Church in Memphis, TN, were challenged to put what they learned into action. The church hosted a campaign to encourage church members to use their homes in the same manner as the earliest Christians—for meeting together, eating together, and encouraging one another. As a means of measuring progress, the church placed a container in its lobby and asked members to drop a seashell into it for every person they invited into their homes. This was to symbolize that church members had “broken out of their shells”

June 26, 2014

Christian Standard

How Much Can We Accomplish Without God?

By Brett Andrews “I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.” “”President James A. Garfield My father-in-law died of cancer a few short weeks after being diagnosed. Until diagnosed, he worked, hunted, and enjoyed his grandchildren to the fullest. Although slowed by lower energy levels, he still worked. Although bothered by nagging back pains, he still felt he had many good years left to enjoy working, hunting, and time with his grandchildren. Then he dared see a doctor. The doctor dared to be honest about what he saw. And my father-in-law didn”t like what

January 4, 2013

Christian Standard

Ages 50 to 75: The Minister”s Sweet Spot

By Brian Jones I believe pastors don”t hit their ministry “sweet spot” until they”re in their mid-50s. And if they stay engaged and growing, that sweet spot will last into their mid- to late-70s. Anyone who has ever led a church, or been led by a pastor in a church, knows this. Put another way, I believe a pastor”s personal ministry effectiveness, as defined both biblically and experientially, doesn”t reach its full potential until a pastor has grandkids and starts to get AARP letters in his mailbox. You can understand my great disappointment, then, when I read my friend Kent

March 29, 2012

Christian Standard

Warehouse Transformed into Athletic Complex

By Jennifer Taylor Although the members of New Life Christian Church (Chantilly, VA) could have opted to build a new worship space with comfortable chairs and cutting-edge technology, in 2009 they voted to buy a former beer distribution warehouse and transform it into a space for the community. The “nZone” is New Life”s answer to area requests for a place where children and adults can play sports and have fun. The new space, which opened in November, features 83,000 square feet of indoor turf fields for soccer and flag football, lacrosse, basketball and volleyball courts, and a fitness center and

October 28, 2007

Christian Standard

Multiplying Your Impact

By Kent Fillinger     From Late Night“s Top 10 lists to college sports” Top 25, almost everything imaginable has been ranked. Americans love lists, and the number of lists generated seems endless. Outreach magazine recently initiated a new list”””America”s Top 25 Multiplying Churches.” Researcher Ed Stetzer said, “Among churches today, the conversation””a long overdue one””is moving from church growth to kingdom growth.” The 25 churches were selected from more than 300 surveyed and were ranked based on the total number of church plants over the life of the church, the average number of churches planted each year, dollars and

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