Try This: Give a Sick Child the Chance to Give to Others

Reach out to your local children’s hospital and see if your church can offer a “mobile store,” where young patients can select gifts, which your church has donated, to give to their loved ones on such holidays as Mother’s Day, Father’s Day and Christmas.

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When We Enter the Present Heaven, Will We Have Physical Forms as We Await Resurrection?

If we will indeed have an intermediate physical form immediately after we die, it’s critical we realize this would in no way make our eventual resurrection unnecessary or redundant.

When Bigger Isn’t Better

All kinds of churches will reach all kinds of people that your current church is not reaching. Bigger is not better. More is better.

The Next Level: A Snapshot of Church Multiplication Trends

Seventeen percent of churches say they were directly or substantially involved in a church plant that opened in the last three years.