The Next Chapter: Urban Church Planting with the Acts 29 Network

August 14, 2009

This is a general post to begin casting the vision of where we are and where we are going. There is so much to say here, but I will try to keep it concise. I would love to chat with anyone individually if they would like to know more or if you would like to [...]

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Our African Experience: Zimbabwe Report and Footage

August 10, 2009

Amazing, difficult, profound, adventurous, turbulent, challenging, awesome, character-building, revealing, educational, radical, enlightening, frustrating, life-giving and eye-opening. Thats a decent stack of adjectives to describe the last 6 months of our lives in Africa. The first 3 months we were in Cape Town, South Africa with a missions organization called All Nations. We worked in an [...]

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Photos from Zimbabwe

July 24, 2009

These are a few our favorites. If you want to see more you can go to a set that we put up on flickr.

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Ministry Report: Our Gospel Focus

May 30, 2009

There are 10 christian tv channels and an infantry of churches and cults in Vic Falls, so the environment is very “religious”. Strangely though there is a huge shortage of bibles here. That being said there is much heresy and false doctrine floating around. It was very discouraging at first, especially at bible studies when [...]

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Elephant!

May 27, 2009

This is a guest post from our team member Danielle Kittinger. I was in the midst of falling into a deep sleep when my dreams became influenced by outside noises. Dogs were barking, followed by a heavy scuffling and blowing, joined by the sounds of running, clapping and calling. Suddenly reality broke through the dreaming [...]

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Rough Start

May 27, 2009

Our first day of outreach we met Bruce. He shared a bit about himself and we shared our vision. He was receptive and really grasped what we were trying to do. He promptly led us to his entire family which was scattered all over Chinotimba. The last stop was his home. It was a 6 [...]

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Outreach to Zimbabwe

April 28, 2009

We are hitting the road to Zimbabwe this saturday! This is a blog post to give you a little info on what we will be up to there.  Church Planting Experience (CPx) is the name of the the training that we have been in for the last 3 months. The first 3 months has been [...]

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Meet the Team

April 23, 2009

We were placed on an awesome team for CPx, and we would like to introduce them to you. These are the folks that we have spent the last 3 months with and will spend the next 2 months in Zimbabwe with. Munyaradzi means “comforter” and that could not be any more accurate of what Munya [...]

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New Prayer Request Widget

April 23, 2009

Quite a few people ask us to share our prayer requests with them through the blog. So in our ordinary high tech style we have created a prayer request widget that we will update regularly from our cell phones with prayer requests. We are using Twitter to keep it updated from our phones. Go here [...]

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What is a Church Planting Movement?

April 5, 2009

There are a few terms that we use that I would like to give more definition too. The first one we would like to tackle is “Church Planting Movement”. Other words that I hope to define better in the future is “Simple Church”, “Organic Leadership” “Missional Communities” and “Making Disciples” so stay tuned! A rapid [...]

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