“Dream Center.” What do those two words bring to mind?
For people involved in the church world, those words might inspire visions of “big”—big buildings, cities, churches and budgets—that make a big difference. And for the most part, those thoughts would be accurate.
Half a million viewers across the nation tune into RFD-TV each week to watch Cowboy Church, a cable program hosted by recording artist Susie McEntire and Russ Weaver, lead pastor of Shepherd’s Valley Cowboy Church in Egan, Texas.
FaithVillage.com, the social network for faith experiences launched last year, is opening a new online bookstore this week.
Christian films continue to sway Hollywood movie executives by providing record-setting sales to smaller budget films thanks in large part to intriguing and moral-based movies such as the new-released Dove Seal approved movie My Lucky Elephant.
Game Show Networks’ highest rated original series, THE AMERICAN BIBLE CHALLENGE, has been awarded the prestigious Epiphany Prize for Most Inspiring TV Program of 2012 at the 21st Annual Movieguide® Faith & Values Awards recently held at the Universal Hilton Hotel in Universal City, CA. Season 2 of THE AMERICAN BIBLE CHALLENGE hosted by Jeff Foxworthy will premiere on Thursday, March 21, 2013 at 9:00 pm ET/PT on GSN.
My wife, Joyce, and I planted our local church 29 years ago, Jan. 29, 1984, in the Sunset Park section of Brooklyn, N.Y. We were not sent out with any money and had only a handful of people who volunteered to serve with us. The following is based on all the mistakes I have made as a church planter, and the lessons I wish someone had coached me through.
