There was a time when the Foursquare Church denomination didn't have a very good track record in planting new churches. "Out of every 10 churches we tried to start, only three made it," says Alex Chai ...

A look at whether churches should expand through a missionary model rather than relying on professional entrepreneurial pastors to plant churches. Next year marks the one hundredth anniversary of ...

A new initiative led by Thabiti Anyabwile aims to support leaders serving in distressed urban areas. A team of pastors including Thabiti Anyabwile and John Onwuchekwa have launched a new network—The ...

The changing religious landscape in the United States includes a decline in the total number of Protestant and Southern Baptist churches.

The strange intersection of high-growth business strategies and churches is becoming more and more influential as non-denominational churches spread like wildfire. Across America and increasingly ...

(RNS) — If evangelical churches want to reach people with the gospel, they need the skills of women and men of all backgrounds, say leaders like the Rev. Liz Rios. (RNS) — The Rev. Liz Rios has a ...

A “church planting” network has launched 25 churches — 18 of them in the U.S. — in the past year amid a global pandemic that forced millions of believers to forgo weekly religious services, often by ...

Church planting can be an exciting yet challenging endeavor. For Mark and Rachelle Francie, the founders of Ocean’s Church in Southern California, launching their church in 2018 was a leap of ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Dec. 29, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ARC (Association of Related Churches) is excited about a very active and successful 2023 church planting season. The 2023 ARC church planting season ...

WASHINGTON — The Crete Collective church-planting network today announced the appointment of its first staff member, Dennae Pierre, as co-director. The Crete Collective was launched in November 2020 ...