Is the average age in your church or denomination climbing ominously? If so, then it’s probably time to do what others have done to reverse the trend that leads only to decline. Sandra timidly enters a worship meeting. She is feeling ashamed of last night’s escapade, and is hoping God can forgive her. Hoping desperately! [...]

MentorNet invited Brian Simmons to share his insight on personal finance that he teaches as a church planting trainer. In every country, mentors must often plan with gospel workers how these will earn a living and how to finance their projects. Many workers feel frustrated by their lack of finance, yet they have unwisely narrowed [...]

Martin Luther posted a list of 95 discussion points on the Wittenberg church door for a shocked town to read, touching off the Protestant Reformation that transformed civilization. Luther’s main thrust was to remove obstacles to the free flow of God’s grace, using Scripture and faith to open heaven’s floodgates. Clergy who Frustrate God’s Grace [...]

We in the West often ask ourselves this question, and we who write and teach about reproductive, group disciple-making hear this question everywhere we go. Given the invisibility of church multiplication within Western societies, we tend to answer the question in two ways, no and yes. No, because of how things are, and yes, if [...]

Copyright © 2010 by Galen Currah, Edward Aw and George Patterson. Permission is granted to copy, translate, post and distribute freely. Training of some kind happens in every aspiring or actual church-planting movement. A frustrating reality is that trainees often fail to apply their learning, or they do not report back on their ministry activities [...]

Copyright © 2010 by Galen Currah, Edward Aw and George Patterson. Permission is granted to copy, translate, post and distribute freely. Experience in the field, as well as reports, from others suggest several reasons for which trainers opt for mentoring a few workers who do the same, in turn, with others. (Compare 14 functions of [...]

Copyright © 2010 by Galen Currah, Edward Aw and George Patterson. Permission is granted to copy, translate, post and distribute freely. The decline of Christian churches in Anglo America stands well documented. Mega-churches, emerging churches and house churches represent trends that remain too small to reverse the removal of Christian thought from business ethics and [...]

Copyright © 2010 by Galen Currah, Edward Aw and George Patterson. Permission is granted to copy, translate, post and distribute freely. Military, medical, and industrial executives have found that developing strong interaction between units and departments is vital to achieve top performance. Scripture demands it, too. Jesus is the great integrator: “In Him all things [...]

Copyright © 2010 by Galen Currah, Edward Aw and George Patterson. Permission is granted to copy, translate, post and distribute freely. Tracking progress of the gospel is proving to be a widely-practiced facet of mentoring for reproductive disciple-making. On the place of simple maps in leading CPMs, see MentorNet ##51 & 52. Continual gathering of [...]

Copyright © 2010 by Galen Currah, Edward Aw and George Patterson. Permission is granted to copy, translate, post and distribute freely. This MentorNet article leans to the theoretical side. There is a growing interest amongst church-planting ministries and those who support them, to learn what ‘makes things tick.’ One useful analytical approach to understand organizations [...]