Idea Starter: Block Parties for the Super Bowl

Encourage and equip small groups in your church to host block parties for their neighbors and friends to watch the Super Bowl together. Provide resources like videos from Tony Dungy (Perseverance in Pain), coach of the 2007 Super Bowl champion Indianapolis Colts, to show at halftime or before or after the game.

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First Baptist Leesburg: More Than Sunday Morning

“We minister to the broken people in our community through many ministries, and we attract a lot of people who want to join our church because of our ministries,” says Art Ayris, executive pastor of administration at First Baptist.

Fastest-Growing Churches: Lessons From the Front Lines

“People see “big C” church as judgy, legalistic rules. If we can work together and show the opposite of that, I feel like that’s our role: to rewrite the narrative of church based on serving.” —Meghan Smith, Trace Church

When You Don’t Want to Read the Bible

You were ultimately made to respond to God’s heart. You were made to know the voice of the Good Shepherd, to lean on his care, to depend on his provisions, to trust in his protection. You were made to come running when your Father calls you home to sit at his table!