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.
"When the crowds were going wild as Jesus rode a donkey into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, it would be silly for that donkey to think that the cheering was for him. In the same way, it's about Jesus, not about the vehicle."
This is an amazing story of adaptation and unlikely partners: one partner with years of experience and demonstrated effectiveness, and the other with contemporary methodology and an urgency to change lives.
I ate lunch with native Ugandan friends, fellow Americans studying abroad, and students from throughout Europe and Africa. The value of forming international connections, as I experienced in Uganda, is emphasized by the Missional International Church Network (MICN).
One of these critical pieces within the “GACX puzzle” is Third Millennium, a GACX member who offers high-quality, free Biblical education to Christian leaders.
God has been using congregations of all shapes and sizes throughout the history of his church to grow his family, including churches just like yours. It’s a big, beautiful task, but thankfully there is no one more passionate and powerful to save his people than God.
