Articles for tag: New Thing Network

December 6, 2014

By Jennifer Johnson The NewThing Network, a church planting movement launched by the leaders of Community Christian Church in Naperville, IL, has long been known for a focus on reproducing churches and multiplying momentum. This, of course, requires a consistent influx of new leaders who then develop new leaders. NewThing”s residency program helps identify and coach these apprentices, and the organization”s new Leadership Training Center, opening in 2015, will add a classroom component to the process. “The residency is a nine- to twelve-month program that connects future church planters with leaders who can mentor and teach them,” says Eric Metcalf,

September 6, 2009

Christian Standard

Conferences & Gatherings Organizations & Events

Exponential “09: What”s the Buzz?

Â by Dick Alexander So what”s all the buzz about Exponential? What exactly is drawing more than 3,000 mostly young leaders to Orlando, Florida, each spring for three intense days? What was known a few years ago as the National New Church Conference, drawing a few hundred church-planting zealots, has reinvented itself as Exponential and now attracts thousands. Its growth has been, well, exponential, and it”s attracting a lot of attention for good reasons. Â FOCUS AND ENERGY Exponential exists to facilitate church planting. It bills itself as the largest church-planting gathering in North America, with participants coming from dozens

August 26, 2007

Christian Standard

Restoration Movement History

A Christian Church Opportunity

By Paul S. Williams It was my recent pleasure to receive a coffee-table book that had a picture of every Christian church in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. John Eldon Cornett, the author of In Search of Heaven on Earth in Kentucky, considered the task a labor of love.* As I looked through the pages I was taken by how aggressively our forefathers planted churches almost 200 years ago in what was then one of the fastest-growing areas in America. Christian churches sprouted all across the Midwest, South, and West as America pursued its “Manifest Destiny.” As a result, the Restoration