2 Responses for "Global Church Advancement - Church Planting and Renewal Conference"

1. Luke Simmons October 8th, 2008 at 8:45 am 1

   I went to GCA this past summer and it was an incredible training. I’m planting in southeast Phoenix and found this to be a great time. My wife went too and it helped us both tremendously.

2. Amy Sherman October 10th, 2008 at 10:09 am 2

   Dear Drew,

   I recently discovered your online presence and see that we have some similar interests and concerns. I wanted to contact you for two quick reasons:

   1) To let you know about http://www.FASTENnetwork.org — a clearinghouse with very extensive (and mostly free) resources for community ministry practitioners;

   2) To ask you for your mailing address, as I would like to send you a free copy of my devotional booklet, Sharing God’s Heart for the Poor: Meditations for Prayer, Worship, and Service. If you eamil me, I’d be happy to send you an e-version of one of the devotionals.

   I’ve been involved in church-based community ministry for twenty years; founded and formerly directed an urban ministry in Virginia; and now serve as a “minister to ministries” by offering capacity building services. (For more info, see my website at http://www.CenteronFIC.org). My team and I spent years putting FASTEN together (with support from the Pew Charitable Trusts and others) and want to see the site better marketed. If you take a look and find it valuable, I’d greatly appreciate your mentioning it in your blog/website/newsletter. Ditto for my devotional booklet, which sells for $3/each plus shipping. I offer discounts for groups that wish to purchase it in bulk. I’ve sold over 20,000 of them and they are often used as preparatory materials for short-term mission trips and in adult Sunday School classes.

   Thanks so much for your consideration of this.

   Blessings,
   Amy Sherman, Ph.D.