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Justice and Church Planting: August CPLF Gathering

Join us at the Church Planting Leadership Fellowship

For the past few years we have hosted a gathering of denomination and network church planting leaders from across North America to consider process and practices of church planting. We call this group the Church Planting Leadership Fellowship. This is a peer group, specifically focused on those who are leading church planting efforts in their denomination and/or network. This group is unique, in fact I’m pretty confident that it’s the only one of its kind. It regularly features leaders who represent around 75% of all North American Evangelical church planting in a given year.

In the past we have featured speakers like Tim Keller, Rick Warren, Linda Stanley, Neil Cole, Dhati Lewis, Leonce Crump, Derwin Gray, and many, many others. What makes this gathering so special, though, is not just the learning we get (though it’s pretty spectacular), but the opportunity for peers to sit down and learn from each other.

This August, we will host our next gathering focusing on Justice and Church Planting. Not only will this event be particularly relevant, due to recent current events, but it will also be the first time that the Billy Graham Center for Evangelism (BGCE) will be involved in this gathering! As the Executive Director of BGCE at Wheaton College, I will be convening this group in partnership with Daniel Im of NewChurches.com and Scott McConnell of LifeWay Research.

On August 3-4, 2016 in Nashville, TN, we will be exploring the best practices of mercy ministry, justice, and servant evangelism in church planting. This year, we will have the following speakers joining us:

  • D.A. Horton (Urban Church Planter)
  • Gary Rohrmayer (President of Converge MidAmerica)
  • JR Woodward (National Director of the V3 Church Planting Movement)

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