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A Time to Pray

Every new year begins with new challenges and new opportunities. Let's begin this one with prayer.

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Discipleship & spiritual formation
Evangelism

Two Events That Changed Everything

Apr 1 2021

Missions

Is Rural Law Enforcement Chaplaincy For You?

Jan 7 2021

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Discipleship & spiritual formation
Evangelism

Two Events That Changed Everything

Two events changed the nature of all reality for all people for all time.

Apr 1 2021

Missions

Is Rural Law Enforcement Chaplaincy For You?

Find out how Law Enforcement agencies across rural Wisconsin and Michigan desperately need the hope of the gospel.

Jan 7 2021

Church & pastoral health
Church strengthening

Who's Holding Your Rope

When you are out on the edge, it's good to know who's holding your rope.

Jan 7 2021

Discipleship & spiritual formation
Evangelism

Two Events That Changed Everything

Two events changed the nature of all reality for all people for all time.

Apr 1 2021

Missions

Is Rural Law Enforcement Chaplaincy For You?

Find out how Law Enforcement agencies across rural Wisconsin and Michigan desperately need the hope of the gospel.

Jan 7 2021

Church & pastoral health
Church strengthening

Who's Holding Your Rope

When you are out on the edge, it's good to know who's holding your rope.

Jan 7 2021

Church & pastoral health
Leadership

A Time to Pray

Every new year begins with new challenges and new opportunities. Let's begin this one with prayer.

Jan 7 2021

Church planting & multiplication

16 Building Blocks Necessary for Planting a Church, Part 6

This article addresses how building blocks numbers ten and eleven, Public Ministry Skills and Enthusiasm/ Energy help make a church planter effective.

Jan 7 2021

Church planting & multiplication

16 Building Blocks Necessary for Planting a Church, Part 5

This month we take a look at the 8th & 9th building blocks from the 16 Building Blocks necessary for an effective Lead Pastor/Multi -Site Pastor in a church plant - Leadership Gifts/Ability and Entrepreneur/Organizer.

Oct 27 2020

Culture & society

The Law and the Great Experiment

The family, the church, and the civil government are the three structures God put in place for a peaceful, civilized society. Where these are not valued and protected, what chance do we have to live the way God intended?

Sep 2 2020

Church planting & multiplication

16 Building Blocks Necessary for Planting a Church, Part 4

This month we take a look at the 6th & 7th building blocks from the 16 Building Blocks necessary for an effective Lead Pastor/Multi -Site Pastor in a church plant - Vision/Philosophy of Ministry and Evangelism.

Aug 5 2020

Discipleship & spiritual formation

Ideas, Attitudes and the Root System of Conviction

The central authority of the Bible is our final and supreme authority in all matters. It is to be the “root system” for all of our ideas, convictions, and ultimately the behaviors flowing from those ideas.

Aug 5 2020

Church planting & multiplication

16 Building Blocks Necessary for Planting a Church, Part 3

A look at building blocks 4 & 5 needed to be an effective Church Planter.

Jun 30 2020

Church planting & multiplication
Leadership

16 Building Blocks Necessary for Planting a Church, Part 2

This month we take a look at the 2nd & 3rd building blocks from the 16 Building Blocks necessary for an effective Lead Pastor/Multi -Site Pastor in a church plant - Emotional Health/Self Image and Relational Ability.

May 28 2020

Church planting & multiplication

16 Building Blocks Necessary for Planting a Church

What do we look for in new church planters? What can we incorporate into our discipleship programs to help train up the next generation of church planters?

Apr 29 2020

Church planting & multiplication
Church strengthening
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We Want to Hear From You

We'd like to celebrate what God is doing in your ministry. Please tell us how you see Him working in your fellowship and community ( i.e. baptisms, church celebrations, community involvement, or any way you see God's hand at work in your ministry). Your story will encourage the greater movement of Converge churches in Wisconsin and the UP.

Mar 26 2020

Church planting & multiplication

New Campus in Great Lakes

Recently, we asked our churches to pray about what God was calling them to do in church planting over the next five years.

Feb 20 2020

Church & pastoral health
Leadership

Pray At All Times for All Things

Are you leading your church toward corporate prayer and a vision to expand the gospel into your community?

Jan 16 2020

Church & pastoral health
Leadership

For Unto Us...

Isaiah 9 points us not only to the child, born in a manger, but also to the Son on the cross at Calvary.

Dec 19 2019

Church & pastoral health

Hidden rot and spiritual consequence

Lessons from a fallen tree

Aug 28 2019

Leadership

Pastor celebrates life of four-star general at Arlington National Cemetery

How did a four-star general find a small-town church in Wisconsin?

Mar 9 2017

Leadership

Taking back the city of Milwaukee

On a warm summer night in May 2007, 4-year-old Jasmine Owens was shot dead while jumping rope in her front yard. This tragedy was the catalyst to catapult Richard Brown and his wife into full-time ministry.

Mar 16 2016

Women in ministry

Prison, freedom and baptism

May God be glorified and may a movement of the Holy Spirit be ignited in the TCI Women’s Prison. Please pray for this movement of God’s Spirit to spread as these ladies face trials and difficulties.

Mar 10 2016