Introducing Redemption Community Church By Adrian Dixon We’re excited to share that Redemption Community Church will be launching this April. This is the first church plant to launch since the establishment of the Church Planting Department at ACGC. Redemption Community Church is a replant in Clayton, N.C. and is a collaborative effort between Northside Community […]
Church Plant Set to Launch in Clayton This Spring By Adrian Dixon Daniel Karl and family We’re excited to announce the launch of a new church plant in Clayton, N.C. in the spring of 2024. Daniel Karl, who most recently served as the pastor of student ministries at Northside Community Church in Knightdale, N.C. has […]
Why A Process? By Adrian Dixon Ed Stetzer, the newly appointed Dean of Talbot School of Theology at Biola University once said, “It takes a wise and sensitive person to realize what God does not want them to do.” Dr. Stetzer would know. He’s written extensively on church planting, has planted churches and is seen […]
Churches are Shrinking, Why Plant? By Adrian Dixon In 2001, as I was beginning to share my calling to plant a church, I would often be asked “why?” Often times, I wouldn’t get a chance to respond before hearing all the reasons why I shouldn’t plant: There are already enough churches without pastors, why start […]
Finding Refuge How God Called Me to Plant a Church in my Hometown “This act of the Father in giving up his Son arises from his eternal purpose to glorify his grace in his elect by giving Christ and all the blessings of his mediatory work to them (Eph. 1:3-14).”1 As John Owen points out, […]
Interview With Church Planter Erik Reynolds Listen in as Church Planting Coordinator, Adrian Dixon interviews Erik Reynolds about the new church plant in Oxford, Massachusetts. Erik and his family answered God’s call to begin a church plant among unbelievers in their hometown. Hear him detail the beginnings of the planting discernment process, the nuts and […]
Advent Christians are Planting: There’s a Path Forward Blog post by Adrian Dixon Every movement begins with trailblazers and pioneers who believed in a cause, were willing to risk comfort and familiarity for something greater and, ultimately, were willing to risk failure as a possible outcome. In the early days of the Advent Christian church, […]
Plant to Save Souls, Not to Survive Feature by Rev. Adrian Dixon Why would a denomination, network, region, conference or group of churches be concerned with church planting? There are at least two answers I can think of: They are driven by a missional focus or they are consumed with survival. A missional mindset mandates […]