J.D. Payne serves as a professor of Christian Ministry at Samford University. Prior to this, he was the pastor for church multiplication with The Church at Brook Hills in Birmingham, AL. Before that, he served with the North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention and as an Associate Professor of Church Planting and Evangelism at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, where he also directed the Center for North American Missions and Church Planting.
Research is vital to our work at OneHope—it isn’t something we keep on the backburner or treat as an afterthought.
Earlier this month, key leaders from five disciple-making / church planting networks came together for a four-day Global Summit in East Asia.
“What’s the hallmark of an effective leader?”
Over a third of GACX’s 86 current member organizations have joined the alliance in the last two years — 23 of them in just 2019 alone.
International Cooperating Ministries (ICM) has a unique model for church development.
At the 2019 Forum, Dr. Tanchi discusses the end goal of making disciples.
At the 2019 Global Forum, Niyi shares principles that his organization has learned, applied, and refined for effective evangelism amongst diverse unreached people groups.
Steve examines the origins of the movement that Jesus began.
At the 2019 Global Forum, Lisa Pak considers some of the challenges and realities faced by the millennial generation.
My first GACX meeting was the children’s ministry strategy intensive at the 2018 forum. From the moment I arrived, the presence of God’s Spirit was palpable.
GACX is bound together by a shared, measurable goal — what we summarize as the “one for 1000 vision.