church planting
Amory MS Demographics
Mar 8th
A church wanting to be on mission in their town will want to know how their community is shaped economically, racially, and in many other categories. If you’re curious about our community, Amory, Mississippi, here a quick little chart generated at the website zipskinny.com. Very interesting, wouldn’t you say? See anything that stands out or More >
Velocity 2010 Summary
Mar 5th
Last Monday and Tuesday, several of us from LifePointe Church made the trek to Cumming, Georgia, for the Velocity 2010 Conference. Velocity was presented by churchplanters.com and hosted at Mountain Lake Church.
Instead of giving you a play by play, I’ll give you a summary of what moved me most. While all sessions and speakers brought More >
Upcoming Conference
Jan 11th
I’ve been so busy the last few months that I had completely forgotten the ChurchPlanters.com conference coming up February 22-23, in Atlanta.
There are so many conferences now and you can spend thousands of dollars and travel every week to attend them all. They all offer great stuff but for most church planters and pastors, both More >
LifePointe Church Website Stats for 2009
Jan 4th
I jumped over to Google Analytics the other day to see how the LifePointe Church website did in 2009. Here’s some of the interesting tidbits I gleamed from the statistics:
The LifePointe Church website was visited 2,531 times.
1,127 unique people visited.
A total of 9,264 pages were viewed.
43% of the visits were people visiting the website for More >
Denominational Press Coverage
Oct 24th
Earlier this year, I did a short phone interview with someone from our state denomination press. Time went by and I really forgot all about it. But in September the interview and a picture was published in our state publication. It’s actually really good. I found the link to the story online and thought More >
Less is More
Aug 17th
As you can see, I’ve made a major theme change to the blog, going from a “busy” to a more minimal look. I grew tired of the, well, ok, the “gawdiness” of the older theme. The new theme places more emphasis on the content. Which means I need to produce better content!
For the past several More >
Local Church Planters Gather
Nov 1st
Thursday we had a little gathering at LifePointe for some of the area’s church planters. Within a 50 mile radius of Amory, there are probably 5-10 new church plants less than 3 years old. Of those, we had people from three at our lunch. Since this is Amory, I, of course, fed them lunch More >
Reactive or Proactive?
Sep 24th
I was listening to the latest podcast from Catalyst the other day, featuring Andy Crouch. (By the way, listening to the Catalyst podcast is required listening for every church planter, pastor, or church leader. REQUIRED! Really, it is, look it up . . .) Andy has a new book, titled Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative More >
Sharing Info
Sep 12th
I’m a big fan of Google Reader, where I can scan many blogs from one location very quickly. I keep up with a lot of church planters, pastors, and all kinds of things related to the church. Occasionally I’d like to share that info here but I don’t always have the time at the moment More >
Swerve
Sep 9th
One of my most favorite blogs for church planters and leaders is Swerve, the blog of Craig Groeschel, pastor at LifeChurch.tv. Craig always, I mean always, hits on stuff that I need to hear. If you’re a church planter, pastor, or church leader, Swerve should be a daily read for you. Check out this week’s More >
