We're excited to introduce you to Lead Pastor Nick Nye and our newest church plant to join the SN family: Apostles Union Square in New York City, NY. Read their story, celebrate their wins, and please join us in praying for this church in 2018!
Apostle's Story
Apostles Church began in 2005 with JR and Ginger Vassar. Understanding that New York is a city of smaller cities, a focus on more neighborhood-centric ministry took shape, with the dream of seeing a Gospel-centered church within walking distance of every New Yorker. So in 2007 we transitioned to two services in two locations: uptown on the Upper East Side and downtown in Murray Hill (which eventually became Union Square). Continuing that vision, the Union Square church launched Apostles Brooklyn in the fall of 2013. That same year, the Vassar family returned to Texas, after serving NYC faithfully, and Apostles focused on local pastoral leadership at each congregation. After a four year transition through leadership, in 2017 Nick Nye and his family were called from his role as founding and lead pastor Veritas Church in Columbus, Ohio to lead Apostles Union Square.
Key Wins in 2017
- Leadership development and role clarity among the leadership
- Organizational health including financial and operational systems
- A long-range visionary framework
Ways You Can Pray
- The Nye family's transition to NYC.
- Ministry changes from church planter to learning how to re-plant a church.
- Financial provision in a very expensive city.
- That the people of Apostles would feel a deeper sense of permanence in the city.
After a quick stop in San Francisco to visit Dave Ainsworth and CJ Bergmen and hear about all that God is doing through Citizens Church (you can read more about this trip here), I got up early to beat the bay area traffic, launching out of the city and into a misty Monday morning making my way to Fresno to visit another Sojourn Network church planter: Troy McComas.
Recently, I got a chance to travel out to California to visit two of our Sojourn Network churches: Citizens Church in the San Francisco area and New City Church in Fresno. In this post, I’ll share a bit about my time at Citizens Church through several photos and short captions that should provide a visual story-arc of my time in San Francisco.
We're excited to introduce you to Lead Pastor Brian Sauvé and our newest church plant to join the SN family: Refuge Church in Ogden, Utah. This is the very first Sojourn Network church in the great state of Utah! Read their story, celebrate their wins, and please join us in praying for this church in 2018!
We're excited to introduce you to Lead Pastor Nick Nye and our newest church plant to join the SN family: Apostles Union Square in New York City, NY. Read their story, celebrate their wins, and please join us in praying for this church in 2018!
We are excited to introduce to you our newest church plant to join the SN family: New City Church in Fresno, CA. We invite you to read their story, celebrate their wins and pray for them in 2018!
It’s time again for our annual report—that yearly opportunity we have to celebrate God’s grace and walk in transparency before this wonderful family of churches.
At SN, we celebrate flourishing, wherever it is found. We don’t define success through stats and numbers, but we do use them to help us evaluate our efforts and to celebrate God’s faithfulness towards our R&D energies. Through the unrelenting grace of God at work in the partnership of 55 churches in 20 states, God enabled us to...
In 2017, Sojourn Network’s blog covered topics ranging from church planting to fundraising to city-reaching to leveraging the pastor's home and church meals and so much more. Here are the top seventeen posts of 2017.
Evidences of grace are signposts of the work of Jesus in the life of a church. We want to highlight and celebrate with you several evidences of God's grace from this past year in Refuge Church!
Well, when we talk about, "Why this small town?" I'm still trying to figure out the answer to that. I am a California boy, born, and raised in Southern California, and at some point, God took my wife, and I into the Midwest. It's a long, horrible story, but at some point, He did a left turn in the path that we were on, and He compelled us, and inspired us to plant a church in a small town.
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"I just remember walking away from that like that is the craziest advice I've ever heard. Like how on earth is that going to prepare me to plant a church? And then by God's grace I was able to just submit to that leadership at the time. And I parked cars for the next year, attended a community group...and man...I just remember parking cars and thinking, "How on earth is this preparing me to plant a church?" I look back now on that time though and I see that it absolutely did."
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On this episode, Dave Owens chats with Rusty McKie. Rusty is the lead pastor of Sojourn Community Church in Chattanooga, TN, and Today we talk about the ups and downs of church planting, pastoring through dark seasons, and about God's faithfulness—his ability to show up—when things get confusing.
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If you’re in a church network, collaboration isn’t an entirely foreign concept. Often other churches in your network aren’t down the road, but in other states or even on the other side of the country. Why is it easier to partner with a church hundreds of miles away than one in your neighborhood? Kingdom collaboration is easy when you’re in a room of people you agree with. It’s a totally different thing to look at the greater body of Christ with a responsibility to collaborate with other churches and other pastors who may not be part of your tribe. Churches that do things very different from the way you do things, but they love and preach Jesus – men, women, and children are coming to trust Jesus in their churches. •
How are you partnering with them? Are you partnering with them? Or are you standing in the way of (geographical) gospel saturation?
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On this episode, Mike Cosper chats with Dan Hyun. Dan is the lead pastor of The Village Church in Baltimore, MD. Today, we're talking to Dan Hyun, pastor of the Village Church in Baltimore, Maryland. Dan planted the Village Church in 2008 with a vision of growing a multicultural community, and he's done that. We talk about the challenges of that calling starting with growing up in Korean churches and growing into the vision that drives him today.
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