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September | 2008 | RCA Church Planters
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Connect, Encourage, Reach, Love. Archive for September, 2008. ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO COACH? September 29, 2008. Church planters need to be coached. Good coaching is not about controlling or leading. It’s about building a trust relationship where the planter can think aloud about the plant process they are working with accountability. Who should do this? Bob Logan has recommended the following list of qualities that predict a good coach. 1 Good character including loyalty, shared vision and values. Like othe...
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GREAT LAKES PLANTING SUMMIT January 25-27 | RCA Church Planters
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Connect, Encourage, Reach, Love. Laquo; ANDRE, HUGO AND RICH are ROCKIN. 50000 GRANTS FOR 2009! GREAT LAKES PLANTING SUMMIT January 25-27. November 14, 2008. By now you have probably picked up on the upcoming planter connection in January. Here are some details:. Location….Camp Geneva. Cost….Free…yes, you read that correctly and that is no reflection on the quality! Child care….still working on that but likely for infants. This event is free! Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Tapestry ...
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Connect, Encourage, Reach, Love. To find our message board. Note: You will need to register as a member. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Google account. ( Log Out. Reformed Church in America.
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Highlights from Planting Summit 09 | RCA Church Planters
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Connect, Encourage, Reach, Love. Laquo; HEART CHECK….soul care for church planters. Highlights from Planting Summit 09. February 6, 2009. So here is a bit of a summary of some key highlights from the SUMMIT that may be helpful to you…. 1 Tom Nebel’s “8 Environmental Risks” to a church plant. Tom has a tremendous grasp of the issues that can tank a plant and that are often not weighted carefully. Contact the Regional office if you would like a copy of the assessment tool. All worth a look regularly. Fill ...
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August | 2008 | RCA Church Planters
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Connect, Encourage, Reach, Love. Archive for August, 2008. PLANTING AT THE SPEED OF TRUST. August 29, 2008. Stephen Covey has given us a great new read that has much to do with church planting. THE SPEED OF TRUST. Catchy title. Trust changes everything. When trust goes up…the cost of advancement goes down while the pace accelerates. When trust goes down…the cost goes up while the pace slows. Covey asks 4 questions to get at the core issues of being a credible leader…. 1 Are you congruent? August 18, 2008.
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January | 2009 | RCA Church Planters
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Connect, Encourage, Reach, Love. Archive for January, 2009. HEART CHECK….soul care for church planters. January 20, 2009. Your heart matters more than anything else….take out your concordance and check it out. It would be a great error to throw your energy into planting a church at the expense of, or to the neglect of, your heart for God. Here are some key diagnostic questions relative to your heart. 1 What thoughts do you ruminate on? 2 What are you likely to talk about when you are under stress? How to...
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July | 2008 | RCA Church Planters
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Connect, Encourage, Reach, Love. Archive for July, 2008. CAN WE AFFORD TO PLANT 50 MORE CHURCHES? July 30, 2008. The shared goal of the Great Lakes Region is 50 more churches by 2013 (swallow hard). At an average outside funding cost of $200,000 per start that computes to a 10 million dollar project. Can we do this? A few thoughts to put this price tag in perspective. As the saying goes, you swallow an elephant one bite at a time! 3 Planters must increasingly be stewardship prompters. As the need for...
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June | 2008 | RCA Church Planters
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Connect, Encourage, Reach, Love. Archive for June, 2008. Retentio…Contemplatio…Dilectio…soul food for planters. June 24, 2008. So if you don’t feed your soul you will die a few deaths every day and the result will be ugly. You get cynical, pessimistic, grumpy. You must feed your soul. First, retentio. This is the activity of Bible study and getting at the meaning of the text. In retentio you hold the truth of scripture in your mind with clarity. Second, contemplatio. This is “gazing...Third, dilectio....
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Connect, Encourage, Reach, Love. NEVER A DULL MOMENT…news and notes in the Great Lakes Region. October 16, 2008. The pot is always cooking and stirring in our shared planting efforts. So here are some of the latest…. 1 A person has stepped forward wanting to explore a second prison congregation at Ionia. The Department of Corrections has already welcomed the first in the state and RCA pastor Rich Reinstra is taking the lead in that one. Now number 2 is on the horizon! 4 New plants are sprouting in Allega...
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February | 2009 | RCA Church Planters
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Connect, Encourage, Reach, Love. Archive for February, 2009. Highlights from Planting Summit 09. February 6, 2009. So here is a bit of a summary of some key highlights from the SUMMIT that may be helpful to you…. 1 Tom Nebel’s “8 Environmental Risks” to a church plant. Tom has a tremendous grasp of the issues that can tank a plant and that are often not weighted carefully. Contact the Regional office if you would like a copy of the assessment tool. Http:/ www.servantevangelism.com. Synod of the Great Lak...
