New Audio Posted: On August 14th, Darrin Patrick spoke to church planters and leaders in the St. Louis area about what it means to be a church on mission and why this is still a crucial question that faces the church in contemporary society. Read More
Category: Church Planting
In this 5 minute excerpt, Mark Driscoll speaks to the dynamics of the family behind the scenes in planting a church especially defining the role of the church planter’s wife. Read More
Category: Church Planting
Acts 29 Network's next boot camp will be on the East Coast in Raleigh, NC hosted by Vintage 21 on September 19-20th. The Acts 29 Network desires to cultivate localized missionaries who will first reach their surrounding cultures and then branch out to the world. This is carried out by helping qualified leaders called by God to plant new churches and replant declining churches in our nation and around the world. Read More
Category: General
Tim Smith, Mars Hill Church's worship pastor, has a deep passion to equip and encourage other worship leaders as both theologians and musicians. As a result, he is now embarking on a series of new projects that I wanted to let everyone know about in the following interview we conducted. Read More
Category: General
We interviewed Tyler Jones, Lead Pastor of Vintage21 and host of the upcoming Acts 29 Boot Camp in Raleigh, North Carolina. A29: When and where did you plant Vintage21? TJ: We planted Vintage21 in downtown Raleigh in November of 2002 – about a week before Thanksgiving actually – and believe me, we had no idea what we were doing. A29: What do you mean that you had no idea... Read More
Category: Acts 29 Church Highlights
Nearly every church planting network and assessment center uses some form of Ridley’s list of characteristics for an effective church planter. While I normally decry cut and paste articles, we get numerous questions from potential church planters asking if they should plant a church. When I set out to plant a church, I examined a list of characteristics from Malphur’s book to discern God’s call to plant a church. Read More
Category: Church Planting
Mark Driscoll shares in this three minute audio clip some of the lessons he learned in the beginning stages of planting Mars Hill Church and offers great insights of what to avoid as a pastor. Read More
Category: Church Planting