Coming To “Together For The Gospel”? Visit With Sojourn Pastors While You’re In Town

April 1, 2010

Church planters and pastors: If you’re coming to the Together For The Gospel conference here in Louisville April 13-15, we’d love to meet you.  We’ve got a few events lined up that will not interfere with conference events.  Seating is limited so please RSVP by emailing us.
Event #1: Lead Pastor’s late night gathering. This event [...]

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A Helpful Resource for Praying for the Unreached

March 19, 2010

A new, full-color wall poster from the U.S. Center for World Mission
A 19″x27″ poster reflecting updated statistics on the reached and unreached people groups of the world. This poster shows in chart form the extent of the gospel and the need of the world. It graphically illustrates the numbers of reached [...]

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Ray Ortlund On Acts 29, Church Planting, The “One Thing” You Should Know and more

March 17, 2010

Watch this short video with Ray Ortlund, Lead Pastor of Immanuel Church in Nashville, Tennessee. In this video, Ray and interviewer Dustin Neeley discuss:

Being asked to resign from his former church
Why he chose to plant with the Acts 29 Network
Ray Ortlund’s “one thing” that church planters need to know.

This is part of a series of [...]

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Global Issues Facing the Global Church

March 12, 2010

Last December John Piper led a discussion with Doug Birdsall, Christopher Wright, and Lindsay Brown—three significant leaders in the Lausanne movement—about a number of missions-related topics.
They considered questions such as

What is the Lausanne Movement?
What are the 6 major issues facing the global church today?
How does the cross of Jesus Christ address these issues?
What are your [...]

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Acts 29 Director Scott Thomas: How To Handle Criticism and Re-plant A Church

March 10, 2010

Watch the second of two short video interviews with Scott Thomas, Director of the Acts 29 Church Planting Network.
We posted the first Scott Thomas interview last week — check it here.  In this second video, Scott discusses:

The unique challenge of replanting a church
How to handle criticism and respond to it.

This is part of a [...]

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Acts 29 Director Scott Thomas Offers Advice For Church Planters

March 3, 2010

Watch this short video interview with Scott Thomas, Director of the Acts 29 Church Planting Network.
In this video, Scott discusses:

Top Five qualities of a successful church planter
wisdom for those who are considering becoming a church planter
the “one thing” church planters need to know

This is part of a series of video interviews with church planters recorded [...]

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The Hess Family: Our Sojourn Baby

March 2, 2010

This past summer Sojourn had the privilege of sending out the Hess family as one of our Sojourn missionary families.  After being commissioned, Doug, Marissa, and Avalyn moved to Costa Rica for language training in preparation for their future work in Argentina. 
Since that time God has blessed the Hess family with Analeigh, who was born in [...]

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Sovereign Grace Ministries’ Dave Harvey Speaks At Sojourn On Church Planting

February 22, 2010

Watch this  short video interview with Dave Harvey, Director of Church Planting and Church Care for Sovereign Grace Ministries. Dave Harvey is also the author of When Sinners Say “I Do”: Discovering The Power Of The Gospel For Marriage.
In this video, Dave discusses:

discerning the call to church planting
the role of the church in that process
the balance [...]

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Gospel Translations: Gospel resources in a variety of languages

February 10, 2010

Gospel Translations is making resources available in a variety of languages from ministries like Sovereign Grace Ministries, Desiring God, 9Marks, Ligonier, and The Gospel Coalition.
Resources are available in the following languages:

Afrikaans
Amharic
Arabic
Bahasa Indonesia
Burmese
Dutch
French
German
Greek
Hindi
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Portuguese
Romanian
Russian
Spanish
Swahili
Tagalog
Turkish
Urdu
and many more

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Church Planting Advice From Pastor Kevin Cawley of Redeemer Fellowship in Kansas City

February 9, 2010

Watch this  short video interview with Pastor Kevin Cawley of Redeemer Fellowship in Kansas City, member of the Acts 29 church planting network.
This is part of a series of video interviews with church planters recorded by Crossing Church Pastor Dustin Neeley at Sojourn’s 930 Art Center, during the Acts 29 Network 2009 Louisville Boot Camp [...]

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