A church planter has so many tasks to do in order to plant the church. Meet new people, follow up with contacts, prepare Bible studies and sermons, look for a meeting location, train leaders. As a church planter, you will need to learn time management. Making a plan for your Read more…
Ed doesn’t like coffee, but that didn’t stop him from being a regular at Play It Again, Sam, a coffee shop in Chestertown, MD. He had a standing lunch date at the coffee shop with his then-pastor from the Church of the Nazarene. They ate their food and had animated Read more…
My name is Andrew, my wife is Jacqueline, and with our little girl Eliana on her way in July we are the Lintners. I was born in Cambodia, adopted into a Christian American family, and then brought over to the United States by the age of three. I spent my Read more…
Twice a year the church planters come together to get practical and biblical training on the issues they face as church planters. This Training Day was focused on ministering to sexual abuse survivors and preventing sexual abuse in the church. Author, speaker, and survivor Lisa Radcliff shared about the importance of the church Read more…
Do you feel God is possibly leading you to church planting, but you need a chance to try it out? Do you want some hands-on experience with church ministry in a church planting context? Are you studying for church ministry and need an internship? Church Extension Ministries is looking for Read more…
Every year, the Bible Fellowship Church church planters gather for a Roundtable Discussion day. The church planters bring real situations for which they need wisdom and ask the other church planters to share their thoughts and suggestions. One of the topics discussed at this year’s Roundtable Discussion day was how Read more…
One day I answered the phone in the Church Extension Office. The woman on the other end of the line had a quick question which I answered. Then she asked, “Whatever happened to the mission churches we used to hear about, mission churches like Woodbury Heights, NJ and Thompson, CT Read more…
Nothing jolts us into paying attention to our homes like inviting visitors over. When we are preparing for company we notice the piles of paper we haven’t taken care of yet, the coats and shoes that need to be put away, and the burned out lightbulbs that haven’t been replaced. Read more…
This year has shown the world proof that we don’t need to leave space missions to the paid professionals. This summer, billionaires Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos each went to space. This fall Elon Musk’s company, SpaceX, launched an all-civilian space flight. Church Extension has known for a long time Read more…
On Saturday April 30, 2016, Pastor Keith Long spent the day with teens from Lancaster BFC scrubbing a vacant storefront tattoo parlor. Shortly after, volunteers from Terre Hill BFC and La Roca BFC and other Lancaster region churches painted and fixed up the storefront to become theCenter or ElCentro on Read more…