Try This: Serve as Designated Drivers

Enlist a team of volunteers from the church and use the church van to serve as a designated driver or free taxi service to take people home from local bars or after local festivals or summer events. Train church volunteers to converse with the people who are receiving a ride home and invite them to church.

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Unbroken Faithfulness

As we face challenge and opposition in our contexts, let’s be encouraged to keep going with consistency, moral courage and confidence in the Scriptures as God’s Word for all time—including our time.

Derwin Gray: 4 Ways to Refill

If we attempt to provide for others without first being nourished ourselves, we burn out. We wound ourselves and others.

4 Foundations for Successful Church Planting

Fueled by the passion of a calling, having committed themselves in prayer, and by playing a long game of patience and persistence, successful church planters establish effective churches by walking in a manner worthy of the purpose to which they’ve been called.