One of the most humbling things to consider as we hear from our planters is how God is sanctifying them and saving others through the ministry God has entrusted to them. I want to frequently introduce you to guys in the network and what God is accomplishing in them and through them. This week it's Jonathan Needham pastor at Coram Deo in Bremerton which is in the Tacoma area of Washington state.
Christ is All,
Matt Chandler
by Jonathan Needham
It was Easter morning. We were getting ready to celebrate at our local performing arts theater. We invited another church in town to join the party. People started showing up. Seven people had signed up to be baptized. Three had agreed to share their stories. One came from a Christian background, another from an atheistic background, ...
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Lives Changed in Boston!
When Matt told this story, I wanted to share it with you because these stories represent something much greater than us — lives changed by the power of Holy Spirit and the 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 missional, Spirit-led, gospel-centered churches, so that more people might see and hear the Good News of Jesus. Below is a story about a new church's baptism service, as told by the lead pastor and Acts 29 member, Matt Chewning. — Scott Thomas
by Matt Chewning
Recently at Netcast Church in Boston, MA, we celebrated being 9 months old and we did it by seeing 6 people come to faith in Jesus and baptizing 7 people in front of an attendance of ...
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Acts 29 exists to see Churches Planting Churches. In that vein, below are lists of Acts 29 churches (members and candidates) added last month. Let us celebrate together what God is doing in our cities — advancing the mission of Jesus and seeing more and more lives changed by the power of the Spirit for His glory.
November Snapshot
New Members: 9 (97 in 2011)New Candidates: 6 (81 in 2011)Total Churches: 420 (152 in 2011)
New Members
New Candidates
Brad Keller | San Jose, CAJohn Bryant | Bakersfield, CASean Brown | Nashville, TNAndy Lawrence | Frankfort, KYJordan Stinziano | Syracuse, NYTy Neal | Las Vegas, NV
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On September 25, 2011, two Acts 29 churches, Coram Deo Church and Core Community Church, merged together. These two churches, which have been pacesetters in the work of urban, missional church planting in the Midwest, joined forces as one church. Below is their story or you can watch the video they made, describing how they came to merger together and talking about the implications of doing so.
by Bob Thune
Core Community Church was founded by Ethan Burmeister in the fall of 2000. It was only the fourth church to join the Acts 29 Network. Ethan was, in many ways, a man ahead of his time. Ideas like “missional church” were not yet commonplace. Conversations about the intersection of missiology and ecclesiology were just beginning – in places like Seattle and ...
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Recently Acts 29 member and Network Director for Georgia, Matt Adair, had the opportunity to preach to a group of 400 inmates a state prison. More than just seeing up to 50 conversions, he got the jaw-dropping gift of seeing "cultural outcasts discover that they could be part of God’s family because of the life, death and resurrection of Jesus on their behalf."
by Matt Adair
‘...he is not ashamed to call them brothers.’ (Hebrews 2:11)
I was arrested twice in high school - once for stealing a pack of baseball cards from an Albertson’s and then again several months later for using the same five-finger discount at a record store next door to pilfer a cassette single of Aerosmith’s ‘Sweet Emotion’. I spent a couple of hours in the juvenile ...
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