Acts 29 has five core values: church planting, theological definition, contextual evangelism, missional collaboration, and global ambition. Each of these shapes and impacts our mission to plant churches worldwide. Tony Merida, Doug Logan, and Jeff Medders discuss our values as a church-planting organization in this episode.

Paul planted Living Hope Church in his hometown of Belleville, Illinois in 2021. He’s married to Krystal, and they’re raising three daughters.

In 1857, the novelist Anthony Trollope wrote, “There is, perhaps, no greater hardship at present inflicted on mankind in civilized and free countries, than the necessity of listening to sermons.” He goes on to describe the “preaching clergyman” as “the bore of the age.” Preaching has always had its haters. We see this in the Scriptures and throughout the history of the church. So, is there a future for preaching? In this recording of Dr. Tony Merida’s main session teaching at the Acts 29...

Caleb and his wife, Rebekah, have been married for nearly 15 years and have 6 children. They live in Jamestown, North Dakota, and planted Buffalo City Church in 2015. Caleb has a master’s degree from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.

Acts 29 exists to plant churches worldwide. Of the eight billion people in the world today, only about one-third would call themselves Christians. That means billions of people don’t know Jesus. We want people from every tribe, tongue, and nation to know and worship him. We believe that to be faithful to the Great Commission’s call to make disciples is to be passionate about church planting. This is why we plant churches worldwide.

Travis Cunningham is the lead pastor of Story Church in his hometown of Rancho Cucamonga, California. He and his wife, Katy, have two kids and a vision of catalyzing a gospel movement that spreads across Southern California and to the ends of the earth.

Trenton is the pastor and church planter of Church 21 South Shore in the greater Montreal area, Quebec. Before that, he spent 9 years as a missionary with Child Evangelism Fellowship. He and his wife are raising their two daughters.

Steve Robinson is the lead pastor of Cornerstone Church in Liverpool, England. He is also the director of the Cornerstone Collective. Steve is married to Sian, and they have four children.

Jen Oshman is a wife, mom, and writer, and has served as a missionary and pastor’s wife for over two decades on three continents. She currently resides in Colorado, where her family planted Redemption Parker, an Acts 29 church. She’s the author of several books and hosts a weekly podcast called All Things.

When we talk about church planting, we often discuss vision casting, mission, and context. But churches also need a good team to lead in the daily ministry. Pastors are tasked with building a cohesive team, resolving conflicts, and doing all they can to make sure everyone is focused and working toward the goal of making disciples of Jesus Christ. But if you’ve never led a church staff before, where do you begin? Who should you hire first? What should staff meetings look like? To help answer...

Jeff Medders, Acts 29's Director for Assessment and the host of the Acts 29 podcast, is interviewed by Christy Britton (Acts 29's Director for Content) in this episode. Jeff sheds some light on Acts 29's robust assessment process and gives insight into the culture of Acts 29 for anyone exploring the call of church planting.

What does it mean to truly belong to a church? Author, pastor, and podcast host, Barnabas Piper, joins the podcast to answer that question as he discusses his new book, "Belong" which is one of four books in a brand new book series by Acts 29's entitled "Love Your Church" (published by The Good Book Company / thegoodbook.com). You can order the series today at the link in the show notes.

Steve Ross delivered this message at our Acts 29 Urban Resource conference in early November, 2022.

Pastor Donny Cho, lead pastor of Metro Church of Philadephia, delivered this message in November (2022) during our Urban Resources Conference in Richmond, Virginia.

Dr. Dwayne Bond led a panel discussion at our North America conference in October 2022. Panelists: Dr. Doug Logan, Jeff Medders, Lesley Rysavy, & Jessie Roseberry.

Theological clarity is an ongoing need in every church. As local church leaders and as Great Commission Christians, we desire to saturate the nations with sound doctrine. Tony kicked off our conference by drawing our attention to Christ’s supremacy because a high view of Christ ought to lead us to a high view of mission.