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.
![Season 1 of our podcast This is Sojourn Network featured conversations with 10 of our Sojourn Network pastors. We talked about family, identity, depression, challenges, growth, lessons learned, geography, culture, context and much more. If you haven’t checked it out, you can subscribe on iTunes or listen to the episodes on www.thisissojournnetwork.com.
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The 2018 Leaders’ Summit is a great place to connect with some of these pastors, featured above. Listen to their stories and come meet them next week in Louisville. Oh, and if you still need to register, don’t worry. We saved a space for you. [Link in bio]](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/50b6210de4b05c3cd8b6e31e/58ed32e6579fb337b5970cd4/5bc7f99fb30b682d35e344a8/1539832257293/)
![We’ve lined up speakers from all over the country with a variety of ministry backgrounds and experiences. Men and women from 25+ states who are leading innovative church ministries will be there.
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We’re not just highlighting church planting and preaching and church ministry in general; instead, we're looking at how we can be a network of churches that grows and develops ministry that lasts? Keynote speakers and Intensives will drill down into the nitty-gritty of this vitally important topic.
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If you’ve already registered, we’re busy preparing for your arrival in less than two weeks! If you haven’t yet, we have a spot waiting just for you. [Link in bio]
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![Why will 50% of the ministers starting out today not last 5 years? - The Schaeffer Institute
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One key question we want to highlight during our Leaders’ Summit is this: whether you're a preaching pastor, worship director, youth leader, executive pastor, Sunday school teacher, women's ministry director, or any other kind of leader, what does it take to sustain a ministry in such a way that it will flourish for the long haul?
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We’ll explore the reality of sin and the impact of grace, learn how to minister as human beings, addressing the reality of our weakness and frailty in light of the gospel, and hear the stories of those who have gone before us.
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Won’t you join us, October 23-25 in Louisville? We hope to see you there. [Link in bio]](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/50b6210de4b05c3cd8b6e31e/58ed32e6579fb337b5970cd4/5bbe57eea8ab5a9eb0274ab3/1539201036704/)
