Forty Churches in 4 Years: Final Report

Not 40, but 57 new churches in 4 years?   God never ceases to amaze us!  Four years ago, we launched our strategic focus for 2015-2018: “40 in 4.”  Our hope and prayer was to see 40 new church planting projects and partnerships launched in four years....

Humble Congregations

After almost eight years of leading a ”church laboratory”, trying to find new ways of how church has to be in order to survive the spiritual whirlwinds of change that are still drawing over Europe, I’m sometimes asked: ”So – what are your conclusions?! What does the...

Echoes Of God’s Kingdom: The Multi-Ethnic Advantage

I saw a headline recently that said “The Church is Too Generous to the Needy.” At first, it was hard for me to believe anyone could actually say there’s such a thing as “too much generosity,” particularly when in reference to God’s...

Every Christ-Follower A Missionary

As I’ve become more familiar with CA’s “Kingdom Seeking” value and the practices we embrace, I’ve come to realize that we are wrestling to implement a paradigm of church that makes every Christ-follower in a church a “missionary” whose unique gifting...

3 Things I Learned From Community Service

When my wife and I (Brandon and Kristi Wellcome) moved to Dublin to begin discovering how we might participate in God’s Kingdom, we were introduced to the work of Serve the City. As we sat in the kitchen of Alan and Sheryl McElwee (the legendary couple that...