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What I learned trying to help build one, in a hotel conference room and then a movie theater.

A wooden boardwalk trail winds through a sunlit forest, autumn leaves scattered across the planks.
March 15, 2017

8 Things I’ve Learned About Church-Planting

It’s rapidly approaching the 6-month mark since my wife and I packed up our family and moved to help plant a church in Gainesville. That number is hard to believe. It seems like it was just yesterday that we felt God’s leading to move across the country. In this 6 months, I have compiled a…

“Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose trust is the LORD.”

Jeremiah 17:7, ESV

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

2 Corinthians 13:14, ESV

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