Stories
‘I think I have a problem’
Time away from ministry brought two pastors renewal and intimacy with God—and a return to the pulpit.
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Open your arms wider
Don’t be surprised if God wants to use your secular career skills in ministry work.
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Overflow: You can’t give away what you don’t have
11 ways to incorporate spiritual disciplines in your life so your faith is fresh and vibrant.
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The baptism, the fire and a 150-year kingdom collaboration
How God used a small group of churches and a two-person seminary to build a kingdom-growing ministry.
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Searching for searchers
How a chaplain is helping reach an unreached people group in Africa with God’s love.
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Kingdom growth and a ‘Say Yes’ culture
Investors and loan holders are more than business associates. They are family.
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What’s more important than innovation?
As important as innovation is, it is not most important.
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‘We can’t live in the past’
Refusing to make excuses, churches reshape their future based on new realities.
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Building a sending culture
An innovative process helps churches discover, develop and deploy God’s people globally.
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Authentic ministry in a virtual world
How one church is reaching a new audience in the Metaverse.
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Should the church still innovate?
Great ideas in the past often need to be replaced with new wine.
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A different approach to reach nonbelievers
A new way to help people overcome misconceptions about the Christian faith.
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The power of perspective
5 ways ministry leaders can keep from losing perspective.
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“There’s no one who can’t be discipled”
New and established churches are making disciples by focusing on relationships and the gospel.
January 2022 // Read >
1-on-1 with former president Scott Ridout
The state of Converge during an unpredictable time and the one word that could change the world.
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Church Board Development: The Next Frontier
Six critical components of a healthy church board and why it's crucial for your church.
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The Anxiety Pandemic
Questions to ask and ways you can respond differently to anxiety.
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Articulating God’s truth in an unbelieving age
Six ways your church can minister to people in this age of unbelief.
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A changed mind leads to changed hearts
He thought going abroad to share the gospel was a waste of God’s gifts. Then he and his wife devoted their lives to global missions.
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Chasing dreams and changing the world
Converge Bridge Network director Twanna Henderson makes history after fanning the flames of a long-held dream.
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Front Yard Mission: Helping people love their neighbors
Converge church helping put “neighbor” back in local neighborhoods with hyper-local missions emphasis.
September 2021 // Read >
A divine reset
God is using the struggles we’ve been through to take us to places we’ve never seen.
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Do something today that scares you
Choosing to do what’s scary in ministry is a willingness to live by faith—every day.
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Can we talk?
A call for courageous conversations in a time of cultural conflict.
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Entering darkness with different weapons
A police chaplain is fulfilling his vow to do everything in his power to make sure cops aren’t alone.
September 2021 // Read >
Great progress, greater opportunities
There are more people who need the gospel ― especially in the five states without a Converge church.
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A new approach to multiplying pastors
Reverse engineering the traditional approach to church planting.
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What missionaries desire most
On a spiritual battlefield there is one ultimate weapon.
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The one transforming force
Paul’s challenge to the church is as critical today as it was two thousand years ago.
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Being the church every church planter needs
No matter the size of your church, budget or leadership team, you can plant a Kingdom-expanding church and leave a legacy of faith for generations to come.
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Meeting today’s new challenges
Living in a transformational time for pastors, churches and communities.
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Love casts out fear
When the vulnerable felt lost, one group of people reached even further to share God’s love during the pandemic.
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We can see your heart
In a Middle Eastern nation many are trying to escape, but one man is staying to impact lives.
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Planting across Providence
A missionary kid grows up to bring hope to Renaissance City.
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Strength behind the scenes
Why a church planter's wife is significant to a church's success.
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Reaching out to share the gospel worldwide
On the front lines of the international church planting movement.
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Whatever it takes
God used Paul’s humble posture to plant many churches. He continues to use the same posture in today’s church planters to reach people with the life-changing gospel of Jesus.
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Planting in The Last Frontier
Converge pastor Caleb Richardson is starting a family of churches throughout Alaska.
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A bold request, a bold answer
Converge global worker disciples Albanian women, helping them know their value in Christ.
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America’s next great mission field
Many new churches must be started to keep pace with America’s population growth. Our rural communities must be a part of these efforts.
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The next generation of church planters
God has called us to find, develop and deploy a new wave of church planters — and we don’t need to look far to find them.
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Preventing & recovering from pastoral failure
How churches can return to a place of trust and flourishing after pastoral failure.
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Multisite, merger, fostering, adopting — what's in your church’s future?
Church mergers are likely to increase in the pandemic’s aftermath. How can your church start the conversation?
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Growing two churches in one community
Miami Filipino church starts Spanish-language congregation to better serve its community.
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4 reasons church planting is the best investment
Planting churches that plant churches to reach people with the life-changing gospel of Jesus Christ.
September 2020 // Read >
Your church is reopening and trauma is coming
How you can make your church a safe and loving place as you begin to meet again.
September 2020 // Read >
Who is my neighbor?
If we belong to Christ, no difference should prevent us from extending compassion to another in need.
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Win-win: growing churches and your money
Investing in the Converge Cornerstone Fund helps to start churches and make a gospel impact in communities
September 2020 // Read >
Each One Start One
Starting new churches is essential to fulfilling our mission to help people meet, know and follow Jesus.
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5 biblical principles about sharing your faith in a season of social distancing
How can we proclaim the gospel during today’s challenges?
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Two brothers shape Converge church planting
Building a team and systems that helped ignite Converge's church planting movement.
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Hope for a racially divided nation
3 vital principles from God's Word that can transform racial despair and hope.
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Hope dealers
Illinois couple plants a church during the worst possible time.
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Married to our mission
As COVID-19 forces Converge churches — and Point magazine — to change methods, they are staying true to their mission.
May 2020 // Read >
Unexpected blessings
An ER nurse thought God was going to use her to care for the sick. Then she contracted the virus herself.
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Six gauges for your soul in a time of crisis
Pay attention to the gauges on your soul’s dashboard.
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COVID-19: A season for our growth and his glory
The whole world has had to suddenly alter its course. But God is showing his power to use crisis and the resilience of his people to adjust and trust him.
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The greatest opportunity
Converge churches find ways to meet needs during the COVID-19 crisis.
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Don’t waste a crisis
Now’s the time to ask the right questions about your church’s future.
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Life interrupted — how is God shaping you?
A lesson from the past helps a missionary move forward during this global pandemic.
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God + gamers
A Wisconsin church plant’s video game ministry is transforming the lives of middle and high school boys.
January 2020 // Read >
Winds of the Holy Spirit
Through the Holy Spirit, Converge churches have a kingdom influence in hurricane-ravaged Bahamas.
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Uber evangelism
Christians aren’t the only people evangelizing. But the others lack one thing.
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Two tales of one amazing love
Through an Illinois church plant and its visionary pastor, a family reeling from tragedy finds Christ.
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A place to belong
How a Converge church is helping neighbors meet Jesus through missional communities.
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The new Point A
It used to be nonbelievers just didn’t make Christ a priority. Now, many see Christianity as unhealthy. How do we reach them with the gospel?
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Come and dine: A call to eat God’s word
Have you been eating the word of God lately? Have you received it with joy, digested it, taken it to heard and applied it to your life?
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What if I offend them?
Why — and how — you can push past your fears and live for Jesus’ mission.
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Giving life to a dead man
Using a man once thought dead, God is bringing life to a community.
September 2019 // Read >
From atheist to church planter
Charlie Salamone was a passionate and outspoken critic of Christianity. Now, he wants to plant 100 churches in 10 years.
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Leading with the next generation
How you can invest in the next generation of leaders.
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Helping teens experience the gospel
Converge church is reaching teens with the good news through LifeGroups.
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“I had never heard any of this.”
Converge missionaries share Jesus with Muslims through children’s summer camp.
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Building a missions culture
All-American church emphasizes cross-cultural missions.
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Nobody left behind
The task of reaching the least-reached peoples of the world belongs to every local church — and every believer.
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Our bold request
God works in mighty ways — around the world and in our neighborhoods.
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Does kindness matter?
A group of Arizona churches are making it hard to get to hell from Yuma.
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Missionaries making an impact
Converge global workers reaching the unreached, helping accomplish goals of regional initiatives.
September 2019 // Read >
The art of neighboring
Four steps you can take to be more proactive in showing love to your neighbors.
May 2019 // Read >
Living and loving like Jesus
When California was stunned last fall by tragedy after tragedy, Converge churches showed Christ’s love.
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The tenacity of hope
Circumstances have changed for one Converge staff member – but God hasn’t.
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Sound barrier
God is calling us to reach an overlooked unreached people group – the Deaf community.
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Destroying the status quo
African-American, Anglo churches consolidate to be an example of the gospel.
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Cultivating an evangelistic lifestyle
How peer connection and sense of threat determine your evangelistic effectiveness.
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Setting the table for friendship evangelism
Relational walls crumble with persistence, honor and respect.
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Entrusted, empowered, engaged, enduring
Four essential qualities as we start and strengthen churches together worldwide.
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Growing in prayer, presence, permission & personal conviction
Practical steps to making a greater gospel impact in your relationships.
January 2019 // Read >
When to have 'the talk'
How do you know when it’s the right time to invite someone to follow Jesus?
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Unity through diversity
Converge continues its emphasis on biblical diversity with the addition of Dr. Harold Lewis as vice president.
January 2019 // Read >
Planting seeds that grow
How individuals and churches can begin a gospel conversation.
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I love the local church
Adding a new church has focused our conversations from our preferences to God's priorities.
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An act of God
A cop on both sides of the law, addicted to drugs and suffering from PTSD, gets clean in more ways than one.
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Beyond your doorstep
Are we willing to be inconvenienced by the sufferings of the neediest among us and spend time engaging and loving lost people in our own community? Or will we continue to pretend not to notice the pain, suffering and trauma taking place in our city?
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Big weekends count
Don’t waste the opportunity to introduce more people to Jesus.
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Blessing from behind bars
Inmates don’t let their circumstances deny them the joy of generosity.
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Dangerous prayers
When you need to experience God’s light in your soul, his power in your ministry and his leading for your future, it’s time to start praying dangerously.
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Knowing God’s heart
The closer we get to Jesus, the more passion we will have for his passion to seek and save the lost.
January 2019 // Read >
No time to waste
Do you love Jesus so much that you can’t wait to tell others about him?
September 2018 // Read >
The good news about evangelism
Sharing Jesus without fear, guilt or weirdness
September 2018 // Read >
Hunting season
How inviting nonbelievers to church can become a priority for your people
September 2018 // Read >
Keeping new believers from falling through the cracks
Next steps for churches as they engage new Christians
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From idol worship to gospel movement
Converge missionaries are reaching the unreached in Voodoo’s birthplace
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Opening the door
Washington church sees hundreds respond publicly and immediately to its gospel invitations
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Let's get personal
Regardless of the response, we are privileged to share Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit and leave the results to God.
September 2018 // Read >
How Converge is reaching West Africa
The 6º Initiative is leading a church planting movement and reaching the next generation of leaders in Togo and Benin.
September 2018 // Read >
Who are the people in your circles of influence
How do we invite people in our inner circle, our outer circle or those who aren’t in either of our circles to church?
September 2018 // Read >
“I gained hope and faith”
About to give up on her own life, a woman instead gained a new life in Christ when her future husband shared the gospel with her. The experience transformed them both.
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Illinois family receives spiritual, emotional healing
Adam shared the love of Christ with his future wife Megan; then her father and stepmom also accepted Jesus as their Savior
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How God transformed the lives of two men from India
Suresh Gaikwad and Ram Tangirala find grace and peace at church in Chicago suburb
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Join us! The power of an invitation
An invitation to church transformed an entire family.
September 2018 // Read >
Sharing your faith in three easy steps
Sharing your faith with others doesn't have to be difficult. Try this easy three-step method to become more comfortable sharing your story.
May 2018 // Read >
Still walking with God
A Canyon State Academy student is overcoming spiritual challenges – with help from his sponsors from a local church.
May 2018 // Read >
Go and make a friend
Are we more intimidated by cross-cultural evangelism than we should be? How you can share your faith with someone from a different culture.
May 2018 // Read >
Creating a culture of evangelism
Eight things leaders must do to create a culture of evangelism in their church.
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Each One Reach One
One of my greatest desires and most consistent prayers in this season of my life is that God will grace every person in every Converge church with the privilege of leading someone to Christ.
May 2018 // Read >
The roar of a family
Canyon State Academy football games used to be played in near silence – until members of a local church built life-changing relationships with the players.
May 2018 // Read >
The evangelism mandate
It is in the Christian’s DNA to share Jesus with others. Christianity without evangelism is not Christianity.
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Crossing the water
This rural church is serving as a bridge to Jesus by serving its community
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Reach One: I knew I was a failure
Thai teenager Shane's life was a wreck, and he knew it. Then an unexpected door opened before him.
Fall 2017 // Read >
You never know your impact
God rewired us to survive and thrive, and the payoff was joy in serving with a purpose.
Fall 2017 // Read >
Are you a missionary-in-the-making?
In your church 2 to 4 percent have the spiritual gift-mix and godly call to be missionaries. Can you spot them? Are you one of them?
Fall 2017 // Read >
Lord, send me
Chaplain Capt. Tamara Rue has "a heart for God first, then a heart for people and a heart for airmen."
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Short-term missions are not enough
But a short-term missions component in a long-term missions strategy can be very positive, depending on how well it’s coordinated with the vocational missionary.
Fall 2017 // Read >
Hear, near and far
Which comes first — your local community, cross-cultural ministry or the world's unreached people groups? The answer may surprise you.
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Why the future belongs to churches that send
How does Jesus continue the work of salvation that commenced with his death and resurrection? Through churches like yours.
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The trend not to send
In the American church these days the focus on numerical growth has outpaced the commitment to spiritual health.
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To send or not to send?
The missionary moment that changed everything for this pastor and his church.
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Got you covered
A parable in Luke suggests four ways a seasoned pastor can provide a 'covering' for other pastors who place themselves under his guidance.
Summer 2017 // Read >
What's your game plan?
Every pastor needs a game plan to last in ministry and avoid the pattern of 'fail out, burn out or walk out.'
Summer 2017 // Read >
Your superpower can transform any relationship
You have the power to transform your relationships into those that are positive and bring joy into your life.
Summer 2017 // Read >
Your church can multiply
Grace Fellowship Church is an example of the power of God-inspired multiplication.
Spring 2017 // Read >
Congratulations, Converge Retirement Plan
Converge Retirement Plan celebrates 50 years of faithful service to pastors, missionaries, district and national staff.
Summer 2017 // Read >
Moving coaching from concept to concrete
One of Converge's 10-year vision goals is that every pastor have a coach and be a coach. But where will we find all these coaches?
Summer 2017 // Read >
Strengthening your core
The core of our ministry is leaders strengthened in their walk with Christ and sold out to proclaiming and living out gospel truths.
Summer 2017 // Read >
No matter what!
I am encouraged that we have a God who is actively working in the midst of the world’s darkness.
Spring 2017 // Read >
Why I need Jesus — and you need to tell others about him
There is power in invitation. If you know someone who needs Jesus, keep asking them, keep inviting them. They might just say yes and see their whole life changed forever.
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The joy and cost of sending your best
Pastors Nate Hettinga and Aaron Day risked sending members, leaders and funds from their congregations to multiply churches. They tell us the joys — and cost — of the process.
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Victory Sports
Who would launch a youth sports franchise in order to plant a church?
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Choose Jesus. Choose life.
Leave your sins on the cross. Leave your problems on the cross. Leave your past on the cross.
Spring 2017 // Read >
Five keys to prepare a plant that blooms
There are many ways to plant a healthy, life-giving church, and they all begin with preparation.
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Each one start one
As part of our 10-year vision, we are praying that all 1300+ Converge churches will have the privilege of starting a new congregation.
Spring 2017 // Read >
Make a shrewd investment
People outside the church can teach us a lot about investing.
Winter 2017 // Read >
Growing the kingdom one heart at a time
The Cornerstone Fund has been committed to serving churches since 1954.
Winter 2017 // Read >
Sharing the win
A district church planting director describes what can happen when churches work together to expand the kingdom of God.
Winter 2017 // Read >
A first-time parents' nightmare
A prayer for an Arabic-speaking evangelist led to an incredible partnership that proves we are better together.
Winter 2017 // Read >
Measure what matters
If you measure what matters, it will help you reach your friends, family and neighbors for Christ.
Winter 2017 // Read >
Building God’s house
Converge has a clear and compelling mission: to help people meet, know and follow Jesus by starting and strengthening churches together worldwide.
Winter 2017 // Read >
