Dave Adams, Advance Church Planting Course facilitator for South Africa, updates us on their activity in 2020. 2020 was the eighth year that ACPC has been running in South Africa. Despite the significant challenges that we’ve all experienced in 2020 with lockdowns that have disrupted so much of what we do, ACPC has continued to help equip those in our … Read More
Advance Global Conference Rescheduled for 2022
Hello Advance Family I hope this letter finds you well as we approach Christmas, which is a welcome joy in an otherwise difficult year! I wanted to reach out to let you know that we have decided to shift our Global Conference, which was originally scheduled for May, 2021 to May, 2022. This was a difficult decision, but with so … Read More
Drive-in gatherings for Covid-secure worship
The United Kingdom is making its way through a second lockdown. After several months of restrictions loosening, many churches began new plans and dared to imagine more in-person gatherings – admittedly without greeting your brother with a holy kiss. The announcement of a Winter lockdown had the effect of a temporary cease-and-desist order for many of those plans; but, in … Read More
The first Advance church plant into Canada
Lawrence and Elizabeth Keen are planting out of City Gates Church, into the small town of Quesnel, in Western Canada. We caught up with the Keen’s and Vic Stander (City Gates) for some background to this exciting move. City Gates has put together a great introductory clip. Check it out and then read up on some of the details below. … Read More
The Way to Heaven via St. Louis
Erik Santiago, Operations Director for Advance Global & North America, wrote us a great summary of the recent North American Central Hub gathering in St Louis, Missouri. By the time I touched down in St. Louis for the Advance Central Hub Conference I had cancelled trips to Nashville, Portugal, France, Luxembourg and the UK this year due to COVID. What … Read More
Political Polarization In The American Church
In this presentation, Erik Santiago chats to Brett McCracken, Vaughn Jarrett and Donnie Griggs about the challenge of political polarization in the American church. They discuss the rise of politics as religion, the challenges of pastoring a church in this climate, divisions along age and race groups and preparing for the post election season.
Tentmaking in 2020
Newcomers to Paul’s life in the New Testament could be forgiven for believing his last name was ‘the Tentmaker’ – after ‘the Apostle’, of course. Paul is still the go-to example for balancing ministry with employment, whether for practical reasons, to relieve financial pressure on the church, or purely preference. Scripture provides plenty of other examples of balancing ministry with … Read More
A review: Empowered Children’s ministry conference for leaders and parents
The Gauteng Hub recently ran a 4-week training series for children’s ministry leaders and parents with young children. We caught up with Helga Schneider, God First Parks, who was part of the organizing team. Helga, who was the training aimed at? In 2019, we had our first children’s ministry conference for the Gauteng hub. This arose out of a need … Read More
Drive-in church a solution for lockdown restrictions
Two Advance churches in Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa are pioneering a creative solution to the current COVID-19 restrictions on gathering. Hope Church (Gregory Cassim), and One City (Steve Rothquel) have hosted a couple of Drive-In Sundays in the last month. South African restrictions limit gatherings to 50 people or less and look set to be in place through the end … Read More
News summary | July
Every month Advance publishes a range of interesting articles on our blog and social media channels. We pull together a summary at month end and send it to your inbox, incase you missed it. This month we feature some great pieces, including: a couple of blogs from movement writers, a ministry toolkit for churches working in the community during COVID-19 … Read More