Below is a note we sent to our church this morning. Please join us in prayer. As you may know, Pillar Church’s rental facility is far outside of our price range, we were able to move into the facility for an affordable rate only because we agreed to a “month...

Tonight Pillar Church hosted a CPN meeting on the subject, “Training Men in Your Congregation to Become Church Planters.” One particularly helpful portion of the evening was Dannie Williams talk (Via Video) on engaging your congregation in church planting.

Today I read a paper written by Roy Garza, the pastor/planter at Pillar Church of Stafford. He tackles a question that most pastors  and planters wrestle with at some point in their ministry. I posted on this subject early last year HERE and provided some helpful articles from other pastors...

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“Identifying and Training Men in Your Congregation to Become Church Planters” Description: How do we as busy pastors and church planters begin to think about the subject of starting other new churches? We can’t even seem to keep our heads above water in our own church planting efforts! The good...

“Sensing a calling” is not enough to cause you to plunge into pastoral ministry. Far too many men enter ministry without the affirmation of others. Even our sincerest desires and intuitions are unreliable guides for a decision of this magnitude. If you don’t meet the Biblical qualifications of an elder...

I find sport in asking pastors if they have ever led their church to plant another new church. Generally speaking American pastors are positive about church planting. They commonly express to me their desire to lead their congregation to plant new churches. Then follow their comments with a well thought...

We’ve all heard the old adage, “If you think your leading but no one is following, you’re just taking a walk.” Most people can be divided pretty easily into the leader or follower category, so which one do you fall into? Being a follower isn’t a bad thing; in fact...