Ecclesia is a relational network of churches, leaders and movements that seek to equip, partner and multiply missional churches and movements.
By Chris Backert; Ecclesia Director & Organizational Architect The Changing Nature of Leadership Development in Emerging Networks In many established associations, there have been programs put in place for leadership development among both congregations and clergy. As with several of these other practices, leadership development was carried out through the centralized office of the denomination, [...]
By Chris Backert; Ecclesia Director & Organizational Architect Within established church associations, the trans-local leadership has historically been viewed as experts in their particular areas of ministry. Whether it was music, Christian education, or family ministry, those who ended up in denominational (i.e. network) work were staff that had excelled in their area of ministry [...]
by JR Rozko, reposted with permission from JR’s Blog Amidst the polarizing, fragmenting, and empire-building forces that seem to be rearing their ugly heads throughout evangelical Protestantism lately, the Ecclesia Network remains for me something of a refuge. Ecclesia, as both a context and a family, is committed to and united by a modest, yet deliberate and [...]
The Bridge is a new community of faith being developed in Easton, PA under the guidance of Mike & Judy Hollenbach. They had previously been a part of New Life Church in Dresher, PA since 1998 where Mike served as associate pastor. Their hometown is nearby Perkasie, PA – a small town about 30 minutes south of Easton/Coopersburg. Mike [...]
by Chris Backert I always look forward to the time when I get to try and summarize all that God has been doing through Ecclesia during the last 12 months and I have the opportunity to talk about where we sense the Spirit’s direction for the year ahead. I’m a little behind on sharing this “news” [...]
We’re excited to announce our next Ecclesia Network Northeast regional meet-up will be Thursday April 19th from 10 am to noon. These Northeast meet-ups are held quarterly and allow a purposeful time and space that has intention, but in a relaxed and relational context. We will be meeting at Church On the Mall – a church located inside [...]