Ideation w/Mike Foster & Charles Lee
I thought this video was close enough to the heart of community planting because maybe more than any other form on “Churching” one needs to be creative and an ideator for a community to thrive. Are ideas & dreams the seeds of a community plant? Maybe! Charles Lee had this conversation with mike foster (above) on ideation over at his blog the other day. (a ling to the post on Charles’ blog) Check that link out above to get all

Is bigger better & do healthy things grow
So here is the conversation; Is bigger better? Do healthy things grow? We have been having this conversation over at To Will One Thing, the blog of the good reverand Troy Hochstetler. (here is the link to the actual post prompting all the conversation :: Of Interest | Thought 2) The main question for me has been “do healthy things grow?” I want to say yes but i don’t want that to turn into bigger is better and i don’t want that to be a capitalist metaphor but rather something orga

epoch :: Center for Missional Church Planting
epoch randomly starting following me on twitter tonight so i have been looking into them a bit. What they are doing sound kinda cool! So here is there little bio paragraph and intro video, also cool. “The Epoch Center for Missional Church Planting is about training the next generation of urban missional-minded church planters, leaders, thinkers, and activists. Our goal is nothing less than to light the spark that erupts into a church planting movement. A Church Planting Movement is defined as “a rapid and multiplicative increase of indigenous churches planting churches within a given

A fellow planter…
A friend of mine, Erick Ewaskowitz is a fellow conversation partner in the community planting world. He is on route to plant a community of Christ followers in the Milwaukee area in a year or so. Right now he is doing an internship of sorts at a church plant in Naperville IL. So he’s on the journey, has some great insight, is is experiencing the world of church planting full force. His blog / community planting conversation is entitle; Planting a movement. i would encourage you to read and engage in his conversation as well.

A Church Planting Conversation :: Where does your call come from?
I had a conversation a few weeks back with Todd Hunter. Todd was recently elected bishop in the Anglican Church, AMiA. But not only is he a bishop in the Anglican Mission (AMiA) he is also a church planter. His church Holy Trinity recently had their launch (September I believe). Todd also heads up a church planting network called C4SO :: Churches 4 the Sake of Others. Their goal is to plan 100 churches in the next 10 years in the Western United States.