When eight-year-old Emma was sent to her room after an argument with her sister, she sat and felt the weight of her sin. Then she understood what she had always heard in church and AWANA.…
At our last Vision and Strategy Committee meeting we invited Pastor Rick Dobrowolski to be with us and present his thoughts and passion for planting churches in the Large- Metro urban context. Rick pastors one…
BFC teens and their youth leaders gathered for two weekends for the Sno Glo youth retreat at Pinebrook Bible Conference in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania. They worshipped together, played together, and heard God’s word…
The beginning of a new year is not only a time to make resolutions but also time for many people to look at their financial investments and see what kinds of dividends they received in…
In 2009, Miguel and Jessica were newly married. They packed up and left their home in Virginia Beach, VA to assist Carlos and Alejandra Rodriguez at La Roca de Reading, PA which at the time…
As we prepare for the launch of Living Word Fellowship in the Muhlenberg area near Reading PA this fall (Lord willing!), I wanted to share a little bit about our last outreach. We had the…
On Monday, April 28 at BFC Conference, Christ Alone Fellowship, city of Lancaster, PA was received as a Particular Church. Praise the Lord! Church Planting Beginnings Seven years ago, Juan Carlos (Los) and Lynette Morales…
On May 23, 1973, Gene Smith was having some fun playing piano duets with his cousin who was a musician for a traveling evangelist. Gene, a young married man with two children, was a gifted…
What do you do when you feel angry, bitter, sad, or offended? Most people, including church planters, go into masking and medicating mode. They deny or cut off their emotion and distract themselves with something…
What does a church do when the struggles they are facing are forcing them to consider closing? Churches in this predicament feel as though they are stuck in quicksand. Before the quicksand of closing unexpectedly…
Each church plant has its own unique story in regards to its beginning, its church planter, and its process, but there is a general outline for church planting that Church Extension Ministries (CEM) follows to…
The term “graduation” conjures up an image of a sea of students in long robes and mortarboards thrown in the air with tassels trailing behind like kite tails. But in the Bible Fellowship Church a…
“I wish I had this when I was planting was my recurring thought during my boot camp experience,” said Tim Zuck, Mentoring Assistant and former church planter. On November 7-9, Pastor Tim Zuck (from Forks Community Church…
If you are involved in church ministry including church planting ministry, you know the feeling of discouragement when yet another Sunday morning verbal announcement for volunteers yields no results. Pastor Wayne Rissmiller from Calvary BFC…
How to gain clarity on your calling to plant a church. My first home had this lone wash line pole in the yard. My wife and I had no plans on using it, so we…
The Holy Spirit is the divine Person of the Godhead that church planters can depend on to lead them to discover their purpose and potential. However, God also uses human agents to assist his children.…
Church Extension Ministries of the Bible Fellowship Church is seeking one English-speaking man and one Spanish-speaking Latino man to work together to plant a church in Selbyville, DE. Why Selbyville? Qualifications If you are interested…
Congratulations! You are ready to be a Church Planter or Church Planting Intern! There’s just one more thing to do: raise support. If your stomach just flip-flopped and your skin went clammy, then this is…
Director David Gundrum spends a lot of time visiting the particular churches in the Bible Fellowship Church as well as the Mission Churches. Recently he has noticed an increasing need for reliable, solid Biblical and…
At Training Day held on September 12, Keith Seary form Harvest USA shared with your Church Planters, and some guests information about “Ministry to Sexual Strugglers” and “Gender and Transgender Identity.” Keith is on the Staff…