Archive for July 27th, 2007

Be encouraged!

David Brainard (1718-1747) was a colonial missionary to the American
Indians. He rode about the woods for three years, slept on the ground,
enduring bad weather, and actually died in bed of tuberculosis, age 29,
in the home of his mentor, Jonathan Edwards. He was known among the
traders and trappers and his stories of Indian conversions were [...]

Help! We’ve got shrinkage!

Though Institutional Churches (ICs) are certainly concerned with the
same issue, let’s focus upon the subject of shrinkage in the Simple Church/
House Church (SC/HC) variety.
From death to divorce, job relocations to relational difficulties, there
are a myriad of reasons why any group might be floundering. Many people
in the Western [...]