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We're excited to welcome Christian Michael to our team as our newest Church Planting Apprentice.

Here are three initial takeaways from Doug Logan and Mez McConnell at our recent conference.

Planting a church begins with strong roots.

You don't need to raise support to help us plant a church. You can join our team as a church member.

On November 12, Iglesia Cristiana Centrados en el Evangelio was commissioned by Godspeed Church. Godspeed is our partner and the parent church who is officially planting ICCE.

Thabiti Anyabwile and John Onwuchekwa wrote an opinion piece last year titled "We need a better strategy to plant Black and brown churches."

We recommend that you read Matthew Spandler-Davison's article on 20schemes Equip called "How a Healthy Church Offers Hope for the Abused." In it, Spandler-Davison outlines the need for and the potential of churchs to be safe environments for the survivors of abuse.

The resurrection, the renewal of the body in the return of Christ, offers a uniquely better word of hope to survivors of trauma than any vague message of “going to a better place after death” that our culture offers.

In the neighborhood surrounding the NEU office (and in most urban poor communities), the poverty rate is between 45% and 50%. That means a family of four makes less than $24,860 a year. But the dollars are not the only problem, or even the main problem. Poverty generates a complex web of related brokenness, and often leads to a downward spiral of suffering.

The kingdom is not meant to be just a long-awaited promise, it is something we are meant to experience… to get a taste of, catch glimpses of, and share in the here and now, however imperfectly.