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Stories from Church Starters
Longing For Belonging
A feeling of community, elusive though it may be, can be an immense blessing to a church starter. In our journey to establish and build Mosaic Fellowship, finding that sense of community, both internal and external, came slowly. In the early months, when we couldn’t...
Podcast: Melissa Rogers
A Conversation with Melissa Rogers The pursuit of genuine religious freedom goes beyond the boundaries of American Evangelicalism and seeks these liberties for people of all faiths. Within a troubling culture of bigotry and religious zealotry, education and the...
Church Start Best Practices: Build a Tiny Home Village
Take it or leave it, here is my “best practices” recommendation to church starters and established pastors everywhere: start a tiny home village with and for people experiencing homelessness. That is what our congregation, Beloved Community Mennonite Church, in...
Shiloh Restoration Church
Shiloh Restoration Church If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me said the Lord. This is a powerful statement of our Lord, for all of us who want to follow him. I am pleased to see how everyone today want to be a...
Leading Others; Leading Self
My first call experience with a church was pleasant. The search committee was clear and respectful. The people were enjoyable to be around. While the job description and title was primarily going to focus on youth ministry, I would also get to teach and preach some,...
Podcast: The Most Common Mistakes of Church Starts, Part 3
In our first two conversations on the most common mistakes of church starts, we focused on creating too much and too soon, a lack of strategic leadership development, not understanding why you do what you do, failing to let toxic church members go, and not...