http://appletreedna.com Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:03:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hi Guys, just to say that the training day at in sunny Boston Spa went great. It looks like we will be starting a pioneer academy up in the north soon. If anyone is intrested in being apart of something in the yorkshire or NE region let me know.Stay on ... http://appletreedna.com/2008/07/09/boston-spa/ Thanks again to everyone for all your prayers for the trip to sunny California! After a difficult trip getting there thanks to USAir, (the original flight was cancelled, then they lost my bags and then eventually once i got on board it was delayed for an hour!! ) i arrived!The conference ... http://appletreedna.com/2008/07/09/america-rocked/ Thanks again to all who were praying for us. Last Sunday we were at York Elim church presenting our road show talks - 'the fruit of an apple tree tour'. Our vision is to get around as many churches and leadership teams and present this paradigm changing talk, helping to get our churches to reproduce until ... http://appletreedna.com/2008/06/17/on-the-road/ WHY PLANT CHURCHES?This is the second part of a 2 part article drawn from research done by various church planters including Tim Keller & Mark Driscoll looking again at this crucial question of church planting.In the last article we looked at the first question that we often get asked in ... http://appletreedna.com/2008/06/13/why-plant-churches-part2/ WHY PLANT CHURCHES?At the Elim general conference this year there was a real sense of momentum towards mission and church planting, with many churches from all sizes looking again at how they can get involved in planting new expressions of church in this nation. In light of this I have ... http://appletreedna.com/2008/06/13/why-plant-churches/ GRAND DESIGNSI was watching a program the other day called Grand Designs. Its a programe dedicated to people who are building their dream homes. Just recently they did a special series of programs over a week, during which they endeavored to build a house from scratch in 5 days. At ... http://appletreedna.com/2008/05/09/33/ As I am writting this I find myself in the middle of very intresting and challenging time. For the past 3 years I have been involved in leading a church that has met as a gathered congregation every Sunday for worship and teaching. we have tried very hard to be ... http://appletreedna.com/2008/04/26/all-change/ The book of Genesis sets out God’s idea of success: filling the earth, subduing the enemy, making disciples through nurturing families? Is this what we are doing? In order to think in the right way, we need to redefine what success is. It’s said that many businessmen ... http://appletreedna.com/2008/04/15/from-produce-to-reproduce/ On the 15th of March we held our 2nd Pioneer training academy. We had 3 new people join us all making the class upto 20 of us. what's great about the class is that we are all from different naitons but all passionate to see the UK won for Jesus. ... http://appletreedna.com/2008/03/19/the-2nd-south-east-academy-rocked/ Over the past 2 days I have had the great joy of teaching some of the pioneering material to Elim's school of Ministry (SOM) led by Gary Gibbs. The 2 days went very well and God's power was felt both days. It is really exciting to see this new teaching ... http://appletreedna.com/2008/03/13/pioneering-in-the-elims-school-of-ministry/