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Michelle and I spent yesterday afternoon with Floyd and Sally McClung at Healsville Sanctuary. Enjoyed the Aussie wildlife and catching up.

It’s almost 30 years since Michelle and I met on the Ark in Amsterdam. Floyd and Sally pioneered that ministry.

A few years ago the McClungs moved to Capetown, South Africa with a vision for church [...]

Floyd and Sally McClung will be in Melbourne, Australia on May 31 for the Unlimited, the Crossway missions conference.

One of Floyd’s sessions will be on church planting movements. I’ll be overseas but if you’re in the region, Floyd is a must.

Friday 30 May 6PM – late
Youth and Young Adults Conference
Manifest band & Flyod McClung

Saturday 31 [...]

Alan HirschEmerging church

The Vineyard movement is training church planters in Oz.

More details on their website.

Vineyard churches

Bobby Gupta transformed a Bible college into a church planting movement which currently has 610 church planters who have planted 3,163 churches in 21 states of India and in Nepal with a membership of over 150,000 believers, over the last 20 years.

I’m guessing we might have something to learn from him.

Bobby is visiting Australia in [...]

Join several thousand church planting leaders in Orlando, Florida on April 21 – 24, 2008 for the National New Church Conference.

The lineup features 10 pre-conference-intensives, 30 national speakers (to be announced within weeks), and 6 main tracks. Super earlybird rate just $99.

The Exponential Conference is partnering with Catalyst to offer a special Church Planting Lab [...]

You’ll reproduce what you are.

Wayne CordeiroHere’s the link to the plenary sessions of the 2007 National New Church Conference.

My favourite is Wayne Cordeiro who goes after the heart of a church planter. In addition you can listen to Ed Stetzer, Dave Ferguson, and Bill Hybels.

They’re already taking registrations for Exponential 2008.

Church PlantingWayne Cordeiro

If you’re within travelling distance of Melbourne you’ll want to get along to Church Planting Today: 8-11 August, 2007.

Stuart Murray-Williams from the UK is speaking. So is Andy Bennett, one of my favourite church planters.

Get all the details here.

Church Planting

A key characteristic of a dynamic movement is the capacity to rapidly mobilize workers.

But you can’t sustain rapid mobilization without adequate support systems. That means you have to build a coaching movement as you multiply leaders in the field.

If you need advanced coach training, Keith Webb is running one of the best courses available in [...]

This week I’m in London visiting our team here. Friday and Saturday I’m at St Mary’s refresh conference in the heart of London. It’s the end of the first day and Alex the tech guy already has the sessions available for free download.

They’re all good. Debby Wright’s session is a MUST. The theme was how [...]