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This One Thing Can Dramatically Multiply Your Church's Sending
How can you look up from the needs and ministries of your local church to strategically identify, equip, send, and support people for ministry? Sending Pathways helps you do just that!
What is Collaborative Sending?
With small shifts in our mindset, we can tap into the resources that we already have to identify, equip, send, and support the next generation of gospel ministers.
George Liele: A Missions and Church Planting Name You Should Know
George Liele is a powerful—if often overlooked—missions figure we should all know.
2 Reasons We Need Hispanic Church Plants
We dream of a church planting movement in our city, where each of our existing churches identifies those who have the call of God and sends them out.
2 Razones para Plantar Iglesias Hispanas
Todos somos enviados a dar continuidad a la MISIÓN DE JESÚS, de extender el evangelio en todas partes, hacer discípulos, que sean bautizados y se reproduzcan en otros que continúen la misión.
Calling Out the Called
This May, we're committing to pray for leaders to call out those called to go to the various kinds of ministry.
Pray for God to send laborers
This May, we're committing to pray for a harvest among the many ways our churches are ministering this summer. Here's how you can join us!
What Do Sending Churches and Dying Churches Have in Common?
The Preacher’s Collective not only helps churches raise up, equip, and send out those who are called to preach, but it also provides gospel proclamation in pastorless churches. Here’s how it works.
4 R.E.A.L. Challenges for Women on the Mission Field
When we started a missionary home group, we assumed it'd be full of Boomer missionaries like we had experienced in the past. Instead, it was a diverse crowd. There were some Boomers like us, but word of our home group had resonated with one particular demographic looking for community—single, millennial women.
Stewarding your Returning Missionaries—a Letter to Local Churches
For the majority of our missionaries, moving halfway across the world for the sake of the gospel started out as a desire they shared with us one day. Shortly after that conversation, our journey to send them started. There is a lot of work that goes into preparing families and singles for the mission field. As sending churches, it is important to follow through as they return as well.