Recent Issues

Calvary Church of Naperville: Calling All Champions

The church has added Champions Nursery, which serves special needs children from birth to 4 years old in a sensory-friendly environment.

Let’s Talk

When we create the environment for hospitality and a space for conversation, the Lord will save people.

How to Overcome Betrayal Trauma in Ministry

With their friends’ departures, pastors have had to recalibrate the very real cost of spiritual intimacy in doing life together.

What I Am Learning

“I believe we will look back at these days and see this season as one of the most critical in God’s kingdom influence growing in our country and world.” —Dean Fulks

Myron Pierce: Hope Multiplier

“We have to hone in on some of these disciplines that can be helpful to engage people, advance the kingdom and multiply churches.”

Is Your Church an Oak or a Petunia?

Not long ago, I compared the list of growing, influential churches in the United States over a timespan of just under half a century (46 years).

A Snapshot of the Coming Kingdom

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?

Jason Strand: Stepping Into and Leading a Whirlwind—Part 1

“We really focus on reaching people who are far from God. That is our mission, that is the heartbeat of our church.”

Multiplication Beyond 2022—Looking at the Essentials

Take a walk with us back to March 2020. One by one, venues where people gathered began closing their doors: restaurants, hair salons, gyms—even...

Evangelism and Discipleship – Look Inside the Nov/Dec 2015 Issue

Evangelism: Influence and Invitation, plus How to Plant a Multiplying Church, Pathways to Discipleship, an Optimistic Call to Justice and Evangelism, The Hillsong Experience and the Outreach interview with J.D. Greear

The 2015 Outreach 100 Issue

The Outreach Magazine/LifeWay Research Special Report on America's Fastest-Growing Churches, plus in-depth interviews with Craig Groeschel, Sergio De La Mora and Brian Tome; The Megachurch and America's Recovery Culture; Ideas for Retention and Much More