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.
Things are slowly moving forward for Todd and the rest of the team involved in the national alliance for church multiplication in Panama.
Partnership is essential to fulfill the Great Commission. In this article, Dr. Bekele Shanko shares a few reasons and steps for initiating, developing and managing partnerships.
God melted the heart of stone of one man, resulting in the birth of the Crescent Project, one of the newest members of GACX.
"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.
