by Darren Edwards | Mar 11, 2018 | Church Planting, News, Zero to Fifteen
As a Church, or team, we’ve had four shots at pioneering a new Christian community. Two of them we’ve had funding for, and the other two we haven’t had any funding or help with. Funding isn’t always the big issue though. The majority of the time it depends on who you...
by Darren Edwards | Mar 9, 2018 | Church Planting, News, Zero to Fifteen
It was during this first stage of Church Planting that I realised how important it was to have team members with us. We had led a bunch of people to Jesus, but it was basically just my family that were used to being around Church. Our Church culture was basically...
by Darren Edwards | Mar 9, 2018 | Church Planting, News, Zero to Fifteen
In my last article I wrote about the characteristics of a Pioneer leader, but character and outlook are different things. During the journey of congregational growth every leader will go through some personal growth seasons. Some of the things that we do when we first...
by Darren Edwards | Mar 8, 2018 | Church Planting, News, Zero to Fifteen
It was winter 2013 and my family and I were about to visit Lincoln for the first time ever. We had already managed to raise over £6000 that we had put into our new Church bank account in faith that God was definitely sending us to Lincoln. If we didn’t like it here...
by Darren Edwards | Mar 1, 2018 | Leading, News
My son and I have a guilty pleasure. From time to time we binge-watch Star Trek. I know, as a far as guilty pleasures go, it’s not that guilty. One of our favourite enemies on the Next Generation series’ is the Borg. For those of you that don’t watch the program, let...
by Darren Edwards | Mar 1, 2018 | News, Spirituality
There was a freshness to the air and the streetlights were gently illuminating our front garden. I had arrived home late after being out in town, and I had been to the pub. Just seven months earlier I was arriving home to a scared and angry wife because, to be frank,...
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