Category: Around the Conference
Helping in Community Crisis
April 27, 2019
JON PAUL, Pastor, Free Christian church, Andover, MA Shootings, tornadoes, terrorism- we can’t predict when and where a major crisis will occur. On September 13, massive over-pressurization of the natural gas distribution system let to a series of explosions across our community, setting 80 separate fires, injuring more than 20, and killing one. The disaster […]
Unreached People Group
Kirk van der Swaagh, Pastor, Neighborhood Church of Greenwich Village, NY As we walk together in our “irreducible core,” seeking to love God, love others, and make disciples through the ministry of our local churches, there is an unreached people group in our midst that we need to be aware of – the deaf community. […]
Sharing Resources with New Churches
February 22, 2019
Jonathan Romig, Pastor, Cornerstone Congregational Church A new initiative to help church plants and re-starts with resources you already have in place. Introduction Have you ever spent hours and hours creating a policy or resource from scratch only to find out that another church already took the time to create that same document, and their […]
God is Growing His Church in Gardner, MA
Mission of Grace Church, formerly Mission Street Congregational Church, began a new chapter on February 3rd when it relocated to newly renovated buildings, having outgrown its former one. David Bodanza, who has pastored the church since 2013, indicates “this has been a long time in the making, and we are thrilled to celebrate with the […]