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Travel Blog | New City Church | Fresno

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.

Travel Blog | Citizen's Church | San Francisco

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.

Generosity & Collaboration: A Network Letter from Dave Harvey

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...

Sojourn Network Films: Substance Church w/ Ronnie & Melissa Martin

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.

[NEW ON THE BLOG] Home For The Holidays | 15 Ideas For Community Groups by @jslinneman. • "We weren’t meant to do life alone. We shouldn’t do the holidays alone either." ____ Link in bio. @thegospelcoalition @trinitychurchmo
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. • 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]
If you haven’t listened to Episode 10 of the This is Sojourn Network podcast with Jamaal & Amber Williams (@jamberw), then you should go do that now. @revdaveharvey interviews them about their journey in the ministry and the Leaders’ Summit in Louisville next week would be a great place to meet up with them and share stories. You can find the podcast on iTunes or via the link in the photo. There’s still time to register for the Leaders’ Summit, the link is in our bio.
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. • 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. • 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] • @jamberw / @ronniemartin @missymrtn / @revdaveharvey / @mikedcosper / @jonathankdodson / @robertkcheong / @nickbogardus / @karenmcheong /@hannah_._anderson
Why will 50% of the ministers starting out today not last 5 years? - The Schaeffer Institute • 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? • 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. • Won’t you join us, October 23-25 in Louisville? We hope to see you there. [Link in bio]
All over the land pastors are burning out. They feel underpaid and overstretched, discouraged, some even depressed. Some feel like they no longer hear the sweet melody of God’s love. The Leaders’ Summit exists because we want to help, and we want to help your friends as well. • If you’re registered for the conference, invite a friend (or two, or three!) to join you for just $20. They can register for one of our eight pre-conference intensives for $20 and can register for the main event for the same price. It’s too good to pass up, so DM us and we’ll give you all the details.