Last year Josh Grimes decided to take up a pandemic hobby of beekeeping. He began to see honeybee swarms have a few things to teach us about church planting.

Get to know Brandon Glenn. As a church planting resident at Iron Mill Church, he is part of a two-year greenhouse program with a dream and goal of launching a new Alliance church in Berwick.

You’ll be encouraged by these five updates from pastors planting churches in Eastern PA. “We are praying for more Timothy's in 2022!”

Together in 2021, our district granted $129,000 to pastors and churches. Now we want to report on how some of those funds were used to increase Gospel impact in our region.

Take this as a reminder that financial and online security is no joke. Start the year out right and follow these tips to secure your church’s online finances.

Although the spiritual soil is often cementlike in West Africa, our international workers are beginning to see more openness among people of the majority religion. Praise Jesus for this story!

With a church plant in Thailand, Ed and Sue Danneker often received the question, “So, where’s your church?” Now 14 years later, the same church has seen a dream realized in their underreached community.

Let’s commit to pray together for the Christmas events our international workers have planned this December. Around the world, Christmas provides an opportunity to share about our Savior more openly and freely.

As our district enters the third year of offering development tracks, God is renewing people in beautiful ways. Sharon shares the story of one pastor’s wife and her experience with relational cohorts.

“Everything looks good,” the doctor said. One of our Eastern PA pastoral couples heard those unexpected words on November 16. Jesus is good.

Making disciples cannot be left to chance. People in our churches need to experience Jesus in life-giving discipleship relationships. In 2022, you can join a development track focused on seeing a culture of discipleship grow in your church.

Are you deeply hungry for renewed intimacy with God? Maybe, in this past season, you’ve found yourself exhausted and in a place of unsatisfied spiritual hunger. Perhaps this is the season for you to join the personal development track, Theodyssey, with Shawn Andrews.

A characteristic of being Jesus’ sheep is simply this: we hear His voice. To grow in hearing Jesus’ voice—the essence of prophetic ministry—two types of training are required.

During some very full coffee shop Sundays, a vision for church planting was rebirthed. On September 19, Common Place Avenue was reborn, and Common Place Roxy had sent our her first group of church planters.

What can we possibly do or offer that could change the flow of strong cultural rivers in our churches? The reality is we have something in our possession that is sufficient to change the current of our culture.

Change means learning to say goodbye to what is in order to embrace what can be. In that, there are many reasons why leading towards change is challenging. Cue Episode 6 of the Essentials Podcast.

Here are four ideas from Steve Grusendorf to consider as you look to develop leaders in your church.