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Here’s the link if you want to purchase the full report: Christian Research: Religious Trends No 7 (2007/2008)

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Fifteen years of experience and some research has convinced me that effective coaching is a key ingredient in any church planting movement.

One of the best resources for coaches is Simply Coaching by Tom Wymore. I met Tom at the Church Multiplication training with Ralph Moore in Hawaii. He’s a great guy and a good coach.

The [...]

Two more outstanding resources from Leadership Network:

Going Glocal: Externally Focused Churches Engage in both Global and Local Missions
By Krista Petty
Have you heard the new buzz word in missions? Glocal: it’s the combination of local and global missions into one. While the word glocalization has been around in business vernacular since the 1990s, churches are now [...]

Fortunate enough to live in Australia, New Zealand or somewhere in the Pacific?

You now have a new online supplier of resources for the region—ResourceZone.

They cover church multiplication, church planter assessment, church planting, coaching, leadership, missional churches, multi-site churches, and simple church.

My favourite resource for anyone committed to fueling church planting movements?

Be Fruitful and Multiply – [...]

Last post we looked at the expansion of Christianity in Africa and the corresponding decline in Europe.

I took the photo above in 1998. It’s a Englishman born C of E, preaching Islam at Speakers’ Corner in Hyde Park.

But according to historian Philip Jenkins it’s not all bad news in Europe.

I read everything he writes. His [...]

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 [...]

If you want a simple introduction to the coaching process you need look no further than my Startup Guide to Coaching Leaders.

If you’re after a more scholarly analysis coming from a seasoned practitioner, have a look at Robert Rowley’s Doctor of Ministry Dissertation: Successfully Coaching Church Planters.

I’ve had a quick look and it’s very promising.

Thanks [...]

Three titles I am finding of great benefit in wresting with the work of the Holy Spirit in mission.

1. Volume 2 of Schnabel’s Early Christian Mission: Paul and the Early Church. It’s detailed and technical in parts. But there’s gold if you’re willing to dig for it.

“Early Christian Mission (2 Volume Set)” (Eckhard J. Schnabel)

2. [...]

I like Jim Collins.

Built to Last and Good to Great are classics in business literature—full of transferable principles for fueling dynamic movements.

I’ve recently finished Good to Great and the Social Sectors, Jim’s contribution to what greatness looks like in the not-for-profit world. The good and great news is he rejects the notion that to be [...]

I have neglected my “What I’m reading” page. But I have repented and here are three titles that have recently caught my attention and why.

1. “A preface to Christian theology” (John Alexander Mackay)

I’m only 30 pages into this one. Already it is having a profound impact on me. Written in 1942, Mackay foresaw many of [...]