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Generosity :: Feeds

Barby Ward — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 16:18:33 +0000

Pastor Ron Klabunde, President of Replenish Community Foundation, is a great friend of ELI and Cultivate. He shared this Replenish initiative with us:

Many new churches are looking for missional opportunities to engage both Christians and pre-Christians in Jesus’ mission, while creating an environment of discipleship.

Formed from the creative missional expressions of a church plant in Northern Virginia, Generosity::Feeds has grown into a nationwide collaborative effort with church plants and their local communities, to ignite new discipling relationships while addressing the food insecurity of children in their area.

http://youtu.be/J0YZ5OVofTo

You can work with Generosity::Feeds to engage your church and community to package 10,000 or more meals in 2 hours! These are then given to your local schools to distribute to children who go hungry outside school hours. Learn more at www.generosityfeeds.org/churches.

Laughter Escapes

Barby Ward — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 18:28:10 +0000

We received this video from Toni Mello, a church planter from Brazil who is part of ELI’s Cultivate Church Planter training. And, by the way, stay tuned for some exciting news about Cultivate, coming in the next few weeks…

The project Escapa Riso (Laughter Escapes) takes the gospel to the pediatric ward of a big city hospital through creative evangelism. It is an initiative of the Igreja da Cidade (City Church) in Salvador – Brazil. The team consists of counselors and clowns making jokes, doing magic tricks, and speaking of the love of Jesus in a manner sensitive to the reality of suffering of those children and parents.

Everything came from the desire to be missionally active, in a way compatible with the possibilities of a small church plant. Since then, the team has continued to grow and now has developed training and workshops, and we have been invited to go to other hospitals.

Jaxton’s Story

Craig Whitney — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:44:29 +0000

Exponential is running a really helpful series of stories on sifting.
A recent post featured ELI Cultivate planters Josh and Lisa Husmann. God
has used them to plant a great church, Mercy Road, in the
Indianapolis area.

In the process God also gave them Jaxton, whose very
short life was used in very unexpected ways. Josh and Lisa’s faithfulness is
a great testimony. You can read the story here and watch the video
below.

The Messenger is the Message

Barby Ward — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 16:25:21 +0000

John Burke explains that the way we navigate cultural shallows is by understanding that in a post modern culture, the messenger is the message. How we are perceived is every bit as important as the truths we espouse.

How do you know whose leading?

Barby Ward — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 16:39:13 +0000

Craig Whitney challenges you to expect something more of leaders in the church. Taken from a clip of ELI’s Cultivate Program.