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.
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.
The GACX Global Forum is one of the most strategically important events that I attend every year. But as GACX’s chairman, it’s my job to say that!
GACX members have a key role in helping form national and regional alliances.
We were bouncing along the dusty washboard roadway of southern Ethiopia when suddenly, unexpectedly, we jerked to a halt. Men jumped atop our Range Rover and began strapping down yellow 5-gallon containers of water.
Over the past three months, I’ve spoken with dozens of leaders of churches, denominations, mission organizations and businesses. I hear the passion in their voices and see the focus in their eyes.
