Check out this two minute video from the Verge Network with Jen Hatmaker: How to kill your missional community.
Quotable quote:
If we develop a church bent towards serving the saved, then the already blessed people will come wanting more blessing..
Church Planting
Equipping Retreat Session 3: Video & Notes
Video and my personal notes from Session 3 of our Church Planters Equipping Retreat. Continue reading
Equipping Retreat Session 2: Video & Notes
Below are my personal and often paraphrased notes from session 2 of the Church-Planters Equipping Retreat with John Worcester. Continue reading
Equipping Retreat Session 1: Video & Notes
Below are my personal notes from John Worcester’s teaching. I may have “Kevinized” some points, but the original thoughts are 100% John’s. Continue reading
Recapping Church Planters Equipping Retreat
Let’s begin by stating the obvious from this past weekend’s equipping retreat:
- God showed up.
- John Worcester challenged us from the scriptures
- Church-planters were stretched, encouraged, and equipped.
- New friendships and partnerships formed.
Here’s the quick stat sheet Continue reading
Church Planters Equipping Retreat
I realize I have not updated this blog in quite a while. As I return to the blogosphere, I want to solicit your prayers for what I believe is a potentially eternally significant event this weekend. God gave me the opportunity to organize an equipping retreat for church-planters in the region. We originally expected ten to twelve guys, but we had to cap the numbers at twenty-two. All of these men are either presently leading a church-plant or sensing God leading them to plant a church in their community. All of these men live in highly unchurched and underserved communities in Vermont, Eastern New York, and Northern New Hampshire. Many of them feel isolated and under-equipped for the task ahead.
Please join me in praying… Continue reading
Videos profiling BCC & Burlington
My good friend Lyandon Warren serves as a church-planting catalyst with the North American Mission Board while also starting and pastoring a church in VT. He recently posted a few videos about Burlington and our church planting endeavors on his website: vermontchurchplanting.com.
Vermont Church Planting: This is Burlington, with Kevin Pounds from Boe Ellis on Vimeo.
Persons of Peace
You are probably not the key person to engaging your neighborhood. Read this again so that it sinks in: you are most likely not the key to engaging your neighborhood-someone else is. Those of us who consider ourselves outgoing extroverted networkers can find this especially challenging because we want to become the relational cogs in the neighborhood. Continue reading
Great resources on Missional Communities
As you may realize our Gospel Communities with Burlington City Church are essentially the same thing as what many churches now call missional communities. As we journey, we continue to discover excellent resources from the growing missional community movement Continue reading
“What do you really do?”
“What do you really do?” is a question I’m asked by someone almost every week. People know I’m a pastor/church-planter/nonprofit director, but they often want to know what this practically looks like beyond our momentary interactions.
You may already know about my obsession with venn diagrams which also carries over into how I structure my personal ministry focus:
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