Jumping Right In:
Hello, Fellow Sojourners,
Yesterday was the re-launch of our training conference for up and coming church planters. The theme of Jump School 1 was “Ready to Jump” and it was an introduction to church planting for those new to the subject or wanting to develop their understanding. Our conferences are broken down into three major themes: Biblical, Missional, and Radical church planting. Once people understand those three principles, they are ready to church plant NEW BREED style.
The Biblical foundation of church planting is probably the most
important aspect. It’s awesome to watch people’s understanding change as they see things jumping off the pages of Acts that they’ve never seen before in regards to church planting. The first session answers the question, “Why does what we’re doing in ministry today look so different from wheat they did in the book of Acts?”. Once that question has been explored, we’ve found people are hungry to learn how to church plant like Paul and the other apostles. One of the best things about the conferences is that we get to pick up church planters along the way who join the network of NEW BREED. We’ve already started forming our first church planting team. It is too early to give the details, but we ask for your prayers.
During the conference Andrea led a workshop titled “Church Planting is for Girls”. We feel that NEW BREED is unique in providing support for both church planter’s wives and other women eager to work with church plants. Andrea took the women through an exploration of their gifts and helped them to strategize how to use them in a church planting context.
She also exhorted them to not settle for anything less than finding their passion and pursuing it for God. Peyton led “Building your Team” and both workshops went so well that we decided to delete one talk from the program so that we could continue our discussion.
On the horizon, we’ve been speaking to some churches in Florida about launching Jump School there in early 2012. As you may know, we’re traveling up to Oregon after the February 5th conference “Taking No Man’s Land” (a.k.a. Jump School 2). Last week we were invited to do a conference in Oregon in July. Peyton has also been invited to take part as the keynote speaker for the mission’s conference for Calvary Chapel West- Grove and a host of other churches in the Orange County area in March Although we’ll be in Oregon then writing the NEW BREED book , they have agreed to fly Peyton down to take part.
We hope to see some of you at these events so we’ll keep you posted about the dates.
On the Wales front, sadly Carol has gone home to be with the Lord. Many of you remember Carol from the early days of Pillar Community Church. She was healed of cancer and turned her life over to Jesus as a result. We will miss her and continue to pray for her family. As we speak, one of our American NEW BREED church planters is on his way from Florida to Wales in order to scout out the land and make plans to return to Wales in Autumn of 2011 and take up church planting there.
Much has happened in the past week, and we’re incredibly blessed to watch God unfolding His plans for our family and the ministry of NEW BREED.
Praises:
• Praise the Lord for many opportunities.
• Praise the Lord for a good conference.
Pray
• Pray for the Holy Spirit to call the people He wants to church plant.
• Pray that the Holy Spirit would guide all our travels and decisions.
Grace and Peace,
Peyton, Andrea, and Liberty
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