Dear Acts 29 Family,
As we approach Thanksgiving—a time to give thanks—and the end of 2009—a time to reflect—we have much for which to give God praise. We have been incredibly blessed to see many new churches planted, a growth of influence and new friendships with leaders and church planters across the globe. We had 131 new church planting churches join the network this year to date, increasing the number of churches in Acts 29 Network to 288. We have 336 new applicants just in 2009 alone (about one per day). With this trajectory, we are anticipating over 120 churches being planted in 2010.
A Global Movement
God is blessing the efforts of Acts 29 all across the nation and world. This spring, we hosted our first World Church Planting Summit ...
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"Church planting is the most effective way to evangelize and make disciples. So much great fruit comes out of church-planting. So, our goal is to make disciples, not necessarily to make a church. But in order to make disciples we see that creating new churches is a great tool to accomplish that," says Scott Thomas, Acts 29 Director, in his interview last week.
Last week, after Scott Thomas had interviewed the UK Coaches, Dai Hankey (bottom right) turned the microphone around to interview Scott with these questions:
1. Who are you, what do you do, and what does that all entail?
2. What are you doing in the rainy UK right now?
3. Had you ever heard of Wales before you came here?
4. What are your dreams for Acts 29 in the UK?
5. Why is church planting so important, in ...
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Steve Timmis, Acts 29 Director for Western Europe, greets Acts 29 blog readers this week: "I’ve just been in the middle of coaching training and I’m really eager to implement coaching in Western Europe under the auspices of Acts 29. Principally, this is for my personal benefit in terms of training; we'll be coaching people who can coach people. That’s the key thing for me. I really think it’s a great tool to develop the effectiveness of church planters through the first couple of years, certainly, and in many different ways thereafter." Steve will be utilizing coach training to build up church planting relationships & efforts in the UK.
Scott Thomas is just returned from training UK church planters as coaches under the leadership of Timmis. Meet them here, ...
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