It's like a MOTH event—with the vulnerability of community.
church plant
We turned an empty lot in L.A. into an edible sanctuary.
The new givers are great. Their comments about why they give are even better.
Sustainability is certainly a goal for most church plants. But have denominations set up a model that is sustainable for pastors?
When Jeff Richards paints a picture of church in downtown Sacramento, the church doesn't tower over the other buildings. It inhabits them.
"I've been given an opportunity to color outside the lines," says Nanette Sawyer of Grace Commons and St James Presbyterian Church in Chicago, "the permission and charge to be creative and experimental."
Vox Veniae began as a church plant growing out of the Austin Chinese Church's ministry to Asian students. But its members felt isolated.
Emily Scott had an idea: what if young adults got together for a weekly agape feast? Soon St. Lydia’s was born--but Scott was not ordained.