Dave Coles is an encourager and resourcer of church-planting movements among unreached groups, serving with Beyond. He has dozens of articles published about church-planting movements, contextualization, reaching Muslims, and the nature of the church. He is author of "Jonathan Edwards on Movements", coauthor of "Bhojpuri Breakthrough: A Movement that Keeps Multiplying", coeditor of 24:14 – A Testimony to All Peoples, and associate editor of Motus Dei: The Movement of God to Disciple the Nations.
Today it is popular to talk about our need for more spiritual leaders. We are laser-focused on leadership development.
It excites me greatly to see God at work through the Global Alliance for Church Multiplication. So many ministries and churches have launched fruitful partnerships to move toward the goal of 5 million multiplying church plants by the end of 2020.
“Together Now” is the theme for the GACX Forum 2016. We have chosen these two words to capture what we will be doing. I believe they capture both God’s heart and priority.
Cesar had been a violent felon. Others in his urban, United States neighborhood made their money selling drugs. He preferred armed robbery and eventually went to prison for it.
I am a church guy. I planted a church straight out of college with a group of young people who came to faith during my student years.
On February 7, 2014, my family and I boarded a plane to Kenya with heavy hearts. We had just heard that Abdi Welli Ahmed, our dear Somali brother and partner in ministry, had been shot dead earlier that day.
GACX Forum 2015 brought together leaders who believe that God’s Kingdom is bigger and more important than our individual organizations.
Today is quite possibly the most exciting era of Christianity since the book of Acts. The global church is growing at a rapid pace as disciples are going from everywhere to everywhere to preach the gospel and fulfill the great commission.
I have been a church planter my entire adult life. I have planted-directly or indirectly-12 churches here in the States.
This short phrase from a colleague pierced my heart recently. Things in the world are changing so rapidly.
When astonishment and awe hit you of the fruitful testimonies of God working through effective partnerships for His cause, we could not be silent at our recent GACX online board meeting.
It is with great joy that I inform you of the successful launching of Eastern Africa GACX. A total of 123 leaders from 10 countries attended the event in Nairobi, Kenya on March 19, 2015.
This is the age of the church planting movement, while it may have been birthed in South America and sparked in Asia – it has now taken root in Africa.
Leaders of five organizations had initiated GACX in September 2011.
