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Ecclesia Northeast Regional – In Partnership with Fresh Expressions US
A New Church For A New World: A Fresh Expressions Vision Day At it’s core, Ecclesia is committed to the development of missional churches that are focused on reaching our growing Post-Christian society. We are also a network that is dedicated to collaboration with other like-minded people. Earlier this year, Ecclesia joined into a partnership [...]
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Church Update: Kairos Hollywood
by Dave Kludt of Kairos Hollywood So far, 2011 has been spent deepening roots in a city with tough soil. Over the last few years, Kairos Hollywood has rounded the five-year mark as a church plant and we’re now approaching ten, with the last few years being marked by significant change and transition. While instability [...]
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Church Update: Christ Church
By Ben Sternke pastor of Christ Church in Ft. Wayne, IN. Christ Church’s mission is to join God in the renewal of all things by planting a network of missional communities in the neighborhoods and networks of Fort Wayne, Indiana. Doing church this way requires a foundation a discipling culture and a lot of leaders, so [...]
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Update from Bruce and Terri Hopler
18 years ago, my wife Terri, 3-month-old son Caleb, and I drove into Howard County, Maryland, to start a church. It was an “against all odds” story on many levels, but by the grace of God a church was born. Over the next several years a lot happened in the life of Cornerstone: over 150 people [...]
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Update from Horizon Church
Horizon Owings Mills in our tenth year as a church. We started with two “missionary families” and a few college students in 2001 and within a few years we grew to about 220 people on Sundays, 120 people in small groups. That was more people than our building and leadership structure could support so we [...]
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Update from Life on the Vine
by Geoff Holsclaw Co-Pastor: Life on the Vine The last 9 months have been a roller-coaster: for me personally and congregationally. But God always brings the right people along at the right time. This has been the major revelation for me/us this year. When the Lord called away one of our co-pastors we were, understandably, [...]
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News for April 2011
Reviews & Audio of the 2011 National Gathering Click here for the most updated audio from this recent conference. We are still working on getting some of the focused session recordings off the recorders so stay tuned for more. For blog reviews of the time you can check out the following posts: Gannon Simms from [...]
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Welcome The District Church to Ecclesia Network
Our nation’s capital is a city of contradictions in many ways. It is the capital of the richest country in human history and yet has some the highest poverty rates in our nation. It is the most educated city in the U.S. but has some of the lowest performing public schools. It is the capital [...]
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2011 Coaches Training – May 10-12
We are pleased to announce we have worked out the dates for an Ecclesia Coaches’ Training. In order to maximize our time and reduce expenses, we will host a 3-day Coaches Training concurrent with the Church Planters Training in Richmond. Coaches Training is Tuesday, May 10 – Thursday, May 12. This training will help equip you [...]
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Rain and Shine: Darkest and Brightest Moments in Church Planting
14 speakers from 14 different churches with 14 minutes each to talk about church planting Friday, April 29th 7pm-10pm – Saturday, April 30th 9am-1pm This Event is FREE – Rsvp on Facebook or email bendudley at me dot com Location: Mosaic Portland 1832 Northeast 39th Avenue Portland, OR 97212 Hosted by: The Ecclesia Network [...]
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