Bruce Wilson serves as the Executive Vice President of GACX. His prior experience includes serving internationally as a church planter and as a missions pastor. Bruce and his wife Becky live in Orlando, Florida.
Most church planters are familiar with DMM training, but what happens when community development is integrated into Disciple Making Movements?
I can still remember sitting in the backseat of our 1989 Volkswagen Vanagon on the way home to Michigan after a month of traveling to the west coast. Our last stop was at the Corn Palace in Iowa.
What does collaboration in church planting look like among refugees in a war-torn area of the world? Christ’s Commission Fellowship (CCF) has discovered the joy of partnership in a most unlikely region.
I remember when my parents built their current home. Besides their stricter budget (including having our fridge consist primarily of frozen pizza), the biggest dread: moving.
Once we graduated college, my best friend, Heidi, and I decided to start a two-person book club.
The GACX member organization, Horn of Africa, is a brilliant organization that uses its ideas to plant churches in Africa.
“If that church weren’t planted, I wouldn’t be here. It was a small, seemingly unsuccessful church, but whoever planted it doesn’t understand the depth of its impact on my life,” says Cruz Paniagua.
When I was in high school, my dad and I sat down to watch Dead Poets Society, one of his favorite movies of all time.
In my sophomore year of college, I switched majors from Elementary Education to Business Communications. What did I want to do with that degree? No idea.
Over my sophomore spring break in college, I went on a mission trip to Mississippi. It was hot, there was drama, and I was averaging three hours of sleep.
Fatima was hostile to the Gospel, attending Christian events and Bible studies on her US campus mostly to argue. Then she experienced answered prayer in Jesus’ name from a Christian friend.
“This is the first church I have ever been to where I did not feel anxious.” The middle-aged woman who spoke these words is a lifelong church attendee. She has lived on three continents.
There are 8 billion people alive today. Of those, approximately 2.5 billion claim to follow Jesus, while the remaining 5.5 billion do not identify with the Christian faith.
If you have spent any time at all in the church planting world, you have undoubtedly heard it said, “If we added up all the reports, the Great Commission would be complete.”
The Lord has called us to set our hope on the grace to be given us on the day when Jesus will return for his church...
