Category: Prayer Team
Asparagus, Church Planting, and You
by Peyton Jones: Let’s just file this away into the “things we don’t ever talk about” folder. We say it’s real, incessant, and painful, but we don’t train our people for it. If you’re getting ready to come into the enemy’s territory, he’s waiting to meet you.In WW2, Hitler’s German forces […]
How to Organize a Church Plant Door Hanger Campaign
by Patrick Bradley: It’s Saturday morning and your volunteers have showed up to execute your church plant door hanger campaign. Now what? You’ve already invested the time to design the door hangers as part of a larger campaign. And you’ve paid to have them printed. It would be a shame […]
Spiritual Warfare and the Lives of Pastors and Church Leaders
by Brandon A. Cox: The struggle is real. When you drop the phrase spiritual warfare into a casual conversations, you often get mixed reactions. On the one hand, a lot of people are skeptics when it comes to anything invisible or supernatural. In fact, many people will believe in heaven and angels but […]
Reflections on Sutherland Springs
by New Life Christian Church: It is unfortunate that mass shootings have become more common than any of us could ever have imagined. It has a lot of us questioning and wondering many things, including Stan Rodda. Stan is the Campus Pastor at our Linton Hall Campus. He has a wonderful reflection […]
4 Intercessory Prayer Team Software Tools
by Patrick Bradley: Keeping your intercessory prayer team up-to-date and praying for you can be easier if you pick one of these prayer team software tools. Missionaries to countries across the globe commonly set up a prayer team back home that covers them in prayer while they’re in the field. […]
Making Our Church the Same Age as Our Neighborhood
By Lee Kricher: Our church needed to make a tough decision. In the fall of 2003, I became Senior Pastor of Amplify Church, an evangelical church in the eastern suburbs of Pittsburgh. Weekend attendance had been in steady decline for several years and was hovering around 200 people. We were on […]
3 Intercessory Prayer Team Event Ideas
by Patrick Bradley: Prayer is a critical piece of your church plant. Use these 3 prayer team event ideas to elevate the value and presence of prayer in your new church. We only get brief glimpses into the spiritual world in Scripture. This one reminds us that we are in […]
12 Church Sub-Calendars You Need Today
Church sub-calendars are a great way to keep everything organized at your church. Setting them up is relatively easy and it solves the following 3 problems. Whether or not you’re a program-driven church, there are things that happen in the life of your church each year. Keeping them all straight […]