By Scott ThomasActs 29 President and Director
The qualities of a successful basketball player are consistent. He or she can dribble, shoot, pass, play defense, rebound, play as a team, think, move quickly and work hard. They don't have to do all of these at the same level but all of the qualities characterize a succesful player at the highest level.
Church planters similarily have qualities that determine their God-given capacity to plant a reproducing church.
Chuck Ridley, professor at Texas A&M University compiled the germinal research on church planting assessments with his Church Planter Profile (CPP). Most assessment instruments start with Ridley’s 13 characteristics in mind as they formulate their own church planter profiles. (Charles R. Ridley and Tweed Moore, ...
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Acts 29 boot camps are a great way to meet real, live church-planters from all over. Some are working in an urban context, some have planted in a rural farm town. Some have multiple meeting sites, and some have added several missional communities this year. Some are many years into their plant and have sent multiple church plants out from their congregation, while some just launched their first service a week ago.
We love making the teaching session audio from boot camps available to you for free online, but there's no way to reproduce the real conversations, connections, care and prayers that happen between brothers at a boot camp.
Attending a boot camp gives you a glimpse at who Acts 29 really is: a network of Jesus-loving men, bonded around the mission of God through church-planting. ...
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We are half-way through assessments here in Houston, finishing up a week in Texas -- our very own Tyler Powell gives us the half-time report. Pray for our assessors & those being assessed for wisdom, discernment & grace.
For some reviews of boot camp, read Clear Creek Community Church (our host) pastor Greg Poore's blog, or attendee Zach Nielsen's ...
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