The sights, sounds and congestion of NYC are amazing. While I was heading to the subway to make my way back to Newark after a recent meeting with a church planter and an overload of coffee, something caught my attention.
Outside The Walls Church (OTWC) began with and still holds to a vision of building a Kingdom community where the poor, captive, broken, and oppressed have a future and a hope in Jesus Christ our Victor!
Danny and Martin are both former “lifers” who took TUMI classes together in prison. They served the Lord faithfully inside and led the church, named Pillar of Fire, in their prison yard.
Sometimes in ministry, there are moments of clarity—moments when the Lord reveals the next step. That was what happened for me at the Evangel School of Urban Church Planting.
This month’s Bulletin features our Evangel School of Urban Church Planting.
If you have ever seen my photography, you would learn very quickly that I love trees. I can’t explain why I love them so much, but they are to me one of the crowning features of God’s creation.
World Impact is committed to empowering urban leaders. When leaders are empowered, they in turn empower those around them and the Church in the city flourishes and grows.
It is so exciting when we get the privilege to identify, equip and release urban leaders to plant churches and facilitate church planting movements among the unchurched urban poor.
I remember when I first got the itch to plant a church. It was about 2007 when I was serving as an Associate Pastor at Zion Tabernacle Baptist Church in Oakland.
I never really set out to plant a church, but progressively after living and working in the community, God gave me a vision for a multi-ethnic, parish model church that was community focused and gospel driven.
Incredible Kingdom opportunities and realities to advance God’s Kingdom are before us in 2017 and I don’t plan on failing because of caution. I plan to experiment and to experiment boldly.
The Wichita ministry recently hosted our third Evangel School of Urban Church Planting. Our team had spent months praying, planning, and walking alongside multiple urban leaders as they were preparing to plant their churches.
