by Shane Craven | Jun 30, 2008 | Church Planting
We had the most meaningful day yesterday at Anthem Church, Gainesville, FL. These people are dear, dear friends. They commissioned us, honored us, blessed us, announced their partnership with Origin Church, and our good friends, Wayne and Vernest LeGree, cranked out...
by Shane Craven | Jun 28, 2008 | Church Planting
Loved Ben Arment and Gary Lamb’s comments yesterday regarding planting a church. You must read! I’ll give you something else along that line. I heard Mark Driscoll say, “What I do in Seattle would not work in Dallas because I don’t have any...
by Shane Craven | Jun 17, 2008 | Church Planting
I had a fabulous time this past Sunday speaking for my good friend, Chad Clemons, at Anthem Community Church in Gainesville, FL. These people are dear, dear friends of ours, and rightly so. The church I pastored in Gainesville, FL and Chad’s church in...
by Shane Craven | Jun 15, 2008 | Church Planting
Chattanooga, TN was just voted the #3 city to live in America! Just one more reason you need to relocate to Ringgold, GA and join our launch team for Origin Church! Ringgold’s Catoosa County is one of the fastest growing counties in Georgia. The growth and...
by Shane Craven | Jun 12, 2008 | Church Planting
Tradition as we know it is and can be a good thing! It is also bad, because we often believe it is the only way, the truth, and the life. On the other side of the coin is technique. Ed Stetzer says that a church can rely on technique to an unhealthy extreme. He...
by Shane Craven | Jun 1, 2008 | Church Planting
It’s my privilege to be speaking at this exciting 6-year-old church plant in Ringgold, GA tomorrow. Larry Pierce has been a tremendous asset, for me, in sharing their journey. They have so much for us all to admire in such a short time! The Church at...