Warren Bird

By empowering people to start a ministry in areas of personal experience—from motorcycling to grieving the loss of a spouse by murder—the church connects the gospel to many people’s pain.

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The church’s emphasis on youth is one of the many factors that spurs the couple to model co-pastoring. “Our co-leadership is intentional because we want to model for our young people that a mom and dad could equally work together in spiritual ministry,” How says.

At every sermon, people are invited to receive Christ, regardless of the numbers present. Moses also says that changing his prayer life changed the ministry. God asked him to spend more time in prayer.

“We want people to feel welcome in an atmosphere where they can be real and bring their struggles,” Sibylle says.

Evangelical Free Church leaders also learned what it means to serve the community when it joined with other churches and Christian leaders to form the “Love Singapore” movement, which focused largely on praying together as one church.

America is becoming increasingly more representative of this vision as it becomes more ethnically diverse. So, how is this multiracial reality shaping the planting of new churches?