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Baptisms in the Street

We love celebrating good stories in our churches. These stories represent something much greater than us  — lives changed by the power of Holy Spirit and life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. And at the end of the day, that's what we're all about: planting churches that plant churches, so that more people might see and hear the Good News of the gospel. Below is a story about a new church's first baptism service, as told by the lead pastor and Acts 29 member, Justin Buzzard (pictured above). by Justin Buzzard Last week Garden City Church [in San Jose, CA] turned 35 days old and we celebrated our first baptisms. It was a Sunday we will never forget. We rent space on Sunday afternoons from a very kind and generous church. For a variety of reasons we ...

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Top 10 Reasons Not to Join a Church Plant

Justin Buzzard is a new member of Acts 29, planting a church in San Jose. A few months ago I moved my family to San Jose to start Garden City Church. The day we moved we had three adults committed to the church plant. It was a move of faith. After getting settled, the first thing I did was hold an informational meeting about the church plant. I hoped twenty people would show up. Sixty-one people attended the meeting. The turnout was comprised almost entirely of Christians from a variety of other churches in the area, the vast majority of whom had never been involved with a church plant. After speaking for about an hour on the vision of Garden City Church, I shared this top ten list. I spent ten minutes sharing and unpacking this list I'd created in order to de-romanticize church ...

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