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Adventist Mission partners with Simple Church as network expands into the Australia, New Zealand and Europe. Click here, scroll down and you will see the Simple Church logo in the bottom right corner.

 

New web page launches.

www.SimpleChurchInfo.com is specifically designed for lay-people to share with those they invite to simple church.

Currently three language translations are in process: Spanish, French, and Portuguese. If you are willing to translate this into your language, please contact us. You help will make it easier for more people to connect with the Simple Church Global Network.

 

 

Thanks Vervent for another way to share Simple Church with our friends. Have a look. This web page makes it easy to email the presentation to friends or include a link in your blogs.

 

Simple Church weekend held in UK asks challenging questions. "What sort of church did Jesus dream of? Would our local church survive if we lost the building? Is church becoming an indoor spectator sport? Is church characterised by consumerism, for example, if you don’t like the preaching you switch church? Have we stopped asking what it means for every member to be a minister? These were some of the uncomfortable questions that were asked at the Simple Church weekend." Read more.

 

Simple Church Interview broadcast on Hope TV. The interview was highlighted on Hope Television's Hope On Fire show. Watch broadcast.

 

The Center For Secular and Postmodern Studies (CSPS) introduces Simple Church in their newsletter. Read more.

 

A few weeks into its start, Simple Church in West Auckland, New Zealand has proved to be a rewarding experience for its participants and its leaders.

At last report, 12 attended, with signs of more on the way. Five of these attendees are lay leaders from the Adventist community; the rest are people from the secular community. Some guests, by their own testimony, are atheists. Read more.

 

Simple Church conducts webinar entitled: Simple Church - What is it? Why consider it? How to start it?

Eighty-three percent (83%) of the population in North America does not go to church on a given weekend. Attendance has been on the decline for over two decades. Some have suggested that 60% of adults under the age of 40 have not walked into a church building. Might house churches be an effective way of reaching secular and unchurched people? Watch Webinar.

ChurchApplied editor Rich DuBose, asked Adams to respond to several questions about his involvement with and vision for Simple Church. Read more.

 

Simple Church: A Very, Very Old, New Idea
Although the history of Christian Spirituality is vast and wide, we kick off the "History of Spirituality" subcategory of this column by reflecting on a movement that, although old and timeless in the Christian Church, is relatively new within Western Adventism. Our reflection will focus on the momentum of the house church phenomenon, and ... Read more.

 

Spectrum Interview with Milton Adams.
RD: What initially provoked your interest in house churches? MA: George Barna wrote a book, Revolutionaries, where he stated that 20 million Christians left the conventional church between 2000 and ... Read more.

 

Florida Hospital asks Milton and Brenda Adams to write the small group Leader's Guide and Participant's Guide for their Creation Health Training Seminar. Simple Church participants have free access to these training materials and the nine DVD presentation, located on the CORE4 resources page. Read more.

  VisitorLogo Ohio Conference extends an invitation for people to become Simple Church planting missionaries. This invitation was published in the Visitor Magazine. Read more.
 

OhioVote

Ohio Conference's Executive Board unanimously votes Simple Church on September 1, 2009. Ohio leadership is the first conference to proactively develop simple church and introduce it to their churches as a front-line church planting option.

  GCF Trans-European Division to develop Simple Church. Forty to fifty people attend Simple Church training workshop at the Great Commission Festival in Slovenia. Division president, Bertil Wiklander, affirms the development of Simple Church in Europe during the festival's closing meeting.
 

To: Milton Adams
From: Elder Don Schneider, NAD President
Regarding: Simple Church Network

  Marti Don & Marti Schneider visit Simple Church. This short interview shares their excitement and desire to have a Simple Church in their own home as well as see others become Simple Church planters. Watch Video.
  Video

This simple church video will give you an inside look at what happens in a house church. Watch video.


  Loren Seibold has generated some interesting discussion regarding Simple Church. Read the article and blog located in the online version of Spectrum Magazine. Read more.

  Seeds 09
Over 50 people attend SEEDS 09 House Church Summit. Lay people, seminary students, pastors, and church leaders gather to explore the development of house churches.
  Radio

Simple Church is invited to record three interview radio programs with Orlando's Christian radio station WEUS AM 810.

  South Pacific Division Simple Church is introduced in the South Pacific Division's Church planting April newsletter. Dr Wayne Krause, Director of the SPD Center for Church Planting and newsletter editor, visited Simple Church while in Florida presenting at Florida's SEEDS conference. Read more.

  Tidings Simple Church—A New Training Ground for 21st-century Missionaries was featured in the Southern Tidings. Read more.

  Beset Practices Simple Church—A really old new idea was the feature story for Best Practices for Adventist Ministry, a free North American Newsletter that anybody can sign up to receive. It provides a discussion and brain-storm hub for Adventists. Read more.

  Adventist Review Adventist Review, Simple Church: Getting back to Basics. December 11, 2008. Read more.


  Ministry New Testament House Churches: A Model for today’s complex world? by Dr Kwabena Donkor, was published in the April 2008 edition of Ministry Magazine, a publication of the North American Division which is sent to pastors and church leaders around the world. Read more.

  Adventist Review Adventist Review, Is There a Church in the House? Read more.



  cardboardbox In The Box is a powerful poem written by a pastor in Florida. Read more.
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