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Local Church Missions

Sending Church Missions – Assessing the Reality

Every local church should be a sending church. A healthy sending church identifies, prepares, sends, and sustains missionaries for God’s harvest field (Matthew 9:37–38). How are churches doing in this mission? At ABWE,…

David LevyJune 2, 2026

Evangelism Strategies

Mobilizing Our People to Evangelize

In 2022, on Easter Sunday, we launched Connect Church Liberty Hill. Connect Church is another campus of Great Hills Baptist Church in Austin, TX. We currently meet in an elementary…

Leighton ForsheeMay 12, 2026

Local Church

Prioritizing the Sending Church

From the beginning of the New Testament church, missionaries have been sent and commissioned from local churches. Acts 13:1-3 demonstrate the sending of Barnabas and Paul from the Antioch church. Local churches send missionaries not mission agencies. When did sending missionaries…

David LevyApril 14, 2026

Local Church

Maximize Your Facility

Facilities matter. How are you using yours? Since moving from a 20+ year pastoral ministry to a role with a mission agency, I have become less interested in buildings and…

Clare JewellFebruary 10, 2026

Discipleship

Let’s Get Back to Our Real Calling

Taking a close look at the church landscape in North America can be a humbling experience. It certainly appears as if the church is dying. Many churches close every week. Attendance is down…

Thad BergmeierDecember 9, 2025

Church Leadership Cross-Cultural Ministry

Taking Responsibility for a Geography

“After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and people and languages, standing before the throne and before…

Jim MurphyOctober 14, 2024

Missional Church

Sending Church Missions – Assessing the Reality

Mobilizing Our People to Evangelize

Prioritizing the Sending Church

Maximize Your Facility

Let’s Get Back to Our Real Calling

Taking Responsibility for a Geography

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