Pastors Attend Church Planting Assessment in Nashville Daniel Karl (L) and Erik Reynolds TENNESSEE – Part of ACGC’s strategic plan is to invest in church planting, specifically through equipping church planters by providing assessments and tools before the church planting journey begins. ACGC has partnered with Converge to provide assessments of prospective church planters. This […]
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 […]
The Call to Send Feature: By Matt Larkin The idea of calling was once central to church culture Growing up, I remember hearing a lot about “the call to ministry.” My pastor talked about it. It was part of church conversations. There would be a yearly call to commit yourself to ministry at camp every […]
India – Advent Christian Conference, Inc. The Nallambakkam Advent Christian Church began in 1998 when career missionaries Marion Damon and Barbara White were in India. With mission support, the church began to worship in a thatched shed. Later, when Ernie Schache and missionaries Earl and Martha Wright were ministering in India, the mission supported this […]
February is always a busy month as we prepare for the Executive Council Meetings. This will be the first time we have held these meetings online through Zoom. Please pray for President Paul Dean and Recording Secretary Thomas Loghry as they work to make these meetings successful and beneficial to the work of ACGC. During […]
Church Planting (2011-83) Whereas, we as a “People of the Promise,” believe that there is “life only in Christ”; and Whereas, many in our world today have rejected the institution of church as it is sometimes perceived; and Whereas, new church ministries that are more focused on incarnational and missional relationship ministries are finding the most success in […]